Westmoreland-Lancaster County PA Archives Biographies.....Kinkead, William January 9, 1829
 
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WILLIAM KINKEAD, who has had nearly fifty years’ experience in the mercantile
business and who is the oldest merchant at Livermore, is an honorable and
accommodating gentleman. He was born in Huntingdon county, Pa., January 9, 1829,
and is a son of Robert and Mary (McClelland) Kinkead. Robert Kinkead was born
and reared in county Derry, Ireland. He immigrated to this country in early life
and settled in Lancaster county, Pa., where he followed his trade, that of
tailoring, for many years. During the latter part of his life he removed to
Huntingdon county, where he died March 10, 1831, aged 63 years. He was an active
democrat, a local speaker of considerable note, and married Mary McClelland, who
was a daughter of James McClelland of Lancaster county and died in 1858, aged 77
years. Robert and Mary Kinkead were the parents of thirteen children:  David,
Samuel, George, James, William, Robert, Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Margaret, Eliza
and Maria (twins) and Letitia. Of these children only three are living: William,
Martha (widow of George Reek) and Maria, widow of Alex. Cannon.

    William Kinkead received his education in the schools of his native county.
At sixteen years of age he became a clerk in a store and ever since then has
been engaged in the mercantile business, excepting two years which he spent on
the Pennsylvania canal. He was at New Alexandria for twenty years as a clerk and
merchant. From there he went to Penn, conducted a store for one year and then
(1874) came to Livermore where he engaged in his present general mercantile
business in the building which he now occupies. His good judgment and years of
practical experience in his line of business enables him to select first quality
goods, which he sells to his numerous patrons at reasonable prices. Mr. Kinkead
is a republican and a member of Livermore Presbyterian church.

    On the 15th of May, 1846, he married Sarah J. Miller, daughter of Hugh
Miller, who is a resident of Indiana county, this State. Mr. and Mrs. Kinkead
have been the parents of nine children: Martha Jane, who died September 7, 1848;
Elizabeth, married to John Wallace of New Alexandria and has two children,
Edward and Annie; Lovenia, wife of S. D. Swend, deputy sheriff; Annabella,
married G. W. Hughes and has one child, Stella; Clara M., wife of George Hull of
Latrobe; Ida E., married to G. W. Shearer of Derry station; Rachel M., died June
27, 1882; William, who married Mary Smith and has four children, Edward, John
S., Percy and Leonora Claire; and Robert, of Derry station, who married Annie
Harkins and has three children, Nellie and James F. and one name not known.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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