BIO:  John W. Kinard, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Lower Windsor Township, Pg 129

JOHN W. KINARD, M. D., son of Simon and Catherine Kinard, of Lower Windsor 
Township, York County, Penn., was born at Wrightsville, Penn., February 15, 1857.  
His early life was spent on the farm, and attending the public schools, and the 
York County Academy, after which he attended the State Normal School, at 
Millersville, four terms.  He began teaching school at the age of seventeen, and 
taught two years in Lower Windsor and two years in Hellam Township.  He then 
began the study of medicine under Dr. Bigler, of Windsor.  He took a course of 
lectures in the University of Maryland, from which he graduated March 1, 1882.  
He located at Craleyville in the spring of 1882, and built up a large practice 
there.  In the spring of 1884 he bought out Dr. Wiles, of East Prospect, and has 
been very successful in the practice of his profession.  He was married, 
September 27, 1883, to Isabella, daughter of Jacob and Margaret Weidman.  Dr. 
Kinard is a member of the Winona Lodge, No. 944, I. O. O. F., of East Prospect.  
As a surgeon, he is heroic and dexterous.  December 30, 1882, he removed a 
fibroid tumor from Mr. O.’s back, administering chloroform and performing the 
operation unaided, which was done in twenty-five minutes; the tumor, when 
removed, weighed nearly two pounds.  January 10, 1883, he removed from Miss F.’s 
left axilla a carcinoma tumor, which was cut there from in thirty minutes, he 
having but the assistance of his medical student; the tumor weighted nearly one 
pound; he also cut a congenital tumor, of twenty-seven years standing, weight 
five ounces, from Mrs. D.’s nose.  He also performed a number of minor 
amputations, all of which resulted in a complete and rapid recovery.  There are 
few who have made medicine such a success as this young physician.  He also took 
a course of lectures in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in 
Medicine, from which he graduated June 20, 1885.