Lacrosse-Jefferson County WI Archives Biographies.....Kinney, Harrison O. 1825 - 
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HARRISON O. KINNEY, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. West Salem; brother of Eli Kinney, 
and son of Elijah and Mary (Horton) Kinney; born in Connecticut in 1825. Mr. 
Kinney was in what is now the city of La Crosse in 1849, but came permanently 
to the county in 1856 from Jefferson Co., Wis., and located on his present 
farm, which he purchased of Mr. John Robinson, but the land was entered by 
Benjmain Healey. Mr. Kinney was married to Betsey J. Muzzy, born in 
Stockbridge, Madison Co., N. Y. She is the daughter of M. W. and Eunice 
(Durkee) Muzzy, who came to Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Co., in 1842. Her mother 
died in Jefferson Co. in 1842; father came to La Crosse Co. about 1850, and 
settled in the town of Hamilton. He now resides at West Salem. Mr. and Mrs. 
Kinney have two sons - Clarence M., born at Fort Atkinson in 1853; Earnest M., 
born in the town of Hamilton in 1858. Farm contains 260 acres. The parents of 
Eli and Harrison O. Kinney had seven children - Elisha, Olive M., Harrison O., 
Eli, Carlon D., Fidelia and Elijah. The first five were born in Connecticut; 
the sixth in Madison Co., N. Y.; the seventh in Jefferson Co., Wis.; Elisha 
and Carlon died in Connecticut; Elijah and Olive in Jefferson Co. Fidelia (now 
Mrs. Shepard), widow of Joseph Shepard, resides in California.

Additional Comments:
From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 824.

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