Monroe County WI Archives Biographies.....Kinney, Eli 
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ELI KINNEY, farmer, Sec. 31; P. O. West Salem; son of Elijah and Mary (Horton) 
Kinney; father born in May, 1797; mother about 1798. They were married in 
Connecticut, and emigrated to Madison Co., N. Y. Mr. Elijah Kinney went to 
Milwaukee from the State of New York, and thence to the town of Fort Atkinson, 
Jefferson Co., Wis., in 1836, where he made a location, and where he remained 
about two years. He then returned to the State of New York, and brought out 
his family in the fall of 1839. The family then consisted of the parents, two 
sons and two daughters; children are all living but one daughter; mother died 
in Jefferson Co. March 7, 1840; father came to La Crosse Co. in the fall of 
1856, and died in the town of Hamilton May 20, 1879. Eli came to La Crosse Co. 
in 1854, and purchased his present farm, where he settled in 1856. He was 
married to Olive, daughter of Hiram Folts. She was born in Cattaraugus Co., N. 
Y., in 1838; removed with her parents to Sparta, Monroe Co., Wis., in 1855. 
Her parents still living in Monroe Co. Mr. and Mrs. Kinney have six children - 
Mary, Caroline, Herman, Elbert, Berton and Lily Bell. Mr. Kinney's farm 
contains 300 acres.

Additional Comments:
From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 823 - 824.

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