- JOSEPH KINNEY JR. was born of Scotch ancestry January ...
Holly, Rutland County, Vermont.
- He resided in his [native] ... was eighteen years old, studying
in district schools and ... In 1817 he removed to Genesee County,
New York, where ... and where in 1820 he married. In 1821 he
removed to ... the same state, and from there in 1833 to Cuyahoga
County, Ohio. In Wisconsin he settled first in Racine County
in 1838; thence after four years he removed to a farm near Avon,
Rock County. At this place he was justice of the peace, and this
was the district from which he was elected as a Democrat to the
constitutional convention. Having been delayed in arriving at
the convention he was not assigned to any standing committee.
He was also in 1851 a member of the state assembly from Lima,
Rock County. In 1864 he removed to Pepin County, but after a
few years increasing age made him abandon farming and go to live
with his children. He died May 5, 1875 at his daughter's home
near Sharon, Wisconsin. Manuscript record.
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- Note: The edition I saw of this book had at least 1"
of the text missing from the right side of the first page. I
put the biography online anyway, despite it being spotty at best,
in hopes someone would notice it and submit a complete version.
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- [Taken from "Wisconsin Historical Publications -
Collections, Vol. XXVII - Constitutional Series, Vol. II"
edited by Milo Milton Quaife; (c)1918 Democrat Printing Co.,
Madison, WI; pp. 781-782]
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