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(I) Thomas Kinney, with whom the New Jersey line begins, was eldest son of James and Elizabeth (Kelsey) Kinney. He was born in Carlung, Scotland, April 9, 1731, and died in Morristown, New Jersey, April 2, 1793. He probably came to America as early as 1755, for it is known that he was married in New Jersey and that two of his children were bap-
tized in the First Presbyterian Church, of Morristown (see "Combined Registers" of that church). Doubtless in making this change of abode he was actuated by the examples of several of his near kinsmen, especially his paternal uncle, John Kenny, who (as noted above ) had for some time been established and was influential in Morris county. Possessing substantial means, he soon acquired much prop- erty in lands, and also interested himself with his Uncle John and Colonel Jacob Arnold in the iron manufacturing business. The second slit- ting mill in the county was erected at Speed- well, near Morristown, by the Kinneys and Arnold. Although the partnership was dis- solved in 1779, Thomas Kinney continued until his death as one of the proprietors of this foundry. He was the owner of a large farm in Morristown, on which stood the noted tavern where Washington had his headquarters in 1777, known as the Arnold Tavern (having been sold by Kinney to his partner, Colonel Jacob Arnold). It has since been moved and now constitutes a portion of All Souls' Hos- pital.
A man of energetic character, he was prom- inently and usefully identified with public affairs. From 1773 to 1776 he was high sheriff of Morris county. In the revolution he took a zealous and influential part from the very be- ginning. He was instrumental in raising and equipping a company of light horse for service with the New Jersey forces, of which he was made captain. This company, under his com- mand, was designated by the revolutionary authorities to escort the Tory governor, Sir William Franklin, to Connecticut-a service for which he was rewarded by the legislature. Resigning his military commission, he was succeeded by Colonel Jacob Arnold, under whose leadership the company, known as Arnold's Light Horse, became noted. In 1769 he subscribed to increase the capital of the College of New Jersey (Princeton Univer- sity), and he was prominent in the Masonic order, being a member of Newark (now St. John's) Lodge, No. I, established in 1761. In the public and other records he is always re- ferred to as Thomas Kinney, Esquire, a desig- nation of distinction in those times.
He married his cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of John Kenny, of Hanover township, Morris county, New Jersey ; she was born March 23. . 1736, died April 23, 1789. Husband and wife lie buried side by side in the cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church, of Morristown. Their tombstones, very large horizontal slabs,
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are excellently preserved, and the inscriptions are perfectly legible. Children: I. John, bap- tized in First Presbyterian Church, of Morris- town, June 22, 1760; died 1832 ; married, Oc -. tober 21, 1778, Phebe, daughter of Samuel Arnold; had several children, one of whom, John, was the ancestor of a well-known family of Kinneys in Louisville, Kentucky. 2. Jabez, baptized in First Presbyterian Church, of Morristown, June 22, 1760 ; died in 1797, leav- ing children-Abraham and Hannah. Accord- ing to a family record he was "drowned in en- deavoring to save a large property in mills that were destroyed by a flood in 1797, belonging to the three brothers in the county of Susses." 3. Abraham, see below.
(II) Abraham, third child of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Kenny) Kinney, was born in Speed- well, New Jersey, August 16, 1762; died in Newark, New Jersey, January 31, 1816. Like his father he was an active patriot in the rev- olution, the records showing that on May 14, 1779, he was ensign in the Third Regiment Pennsylvania Line, and June 14, 1781, lieuten- ant of the Second Regiment Continental Dra- goons. After the revolution he was lieutenant- colonel of the Morris and Sussex cavalry, and in that capacity served through the war of 1812, being stationed at Sandy Hook. Some years after his marriage he removed from Morris county to Newark, where he spent the remainder of his life. His high personal char- acter is indicated by an entry in the family Bible in his widow's handwriting, following the record of his death-"the tenderest and most affectionate of husbands and fathers." He married, January 12, 1784, Hannah, daughter of Dr. William Burnet, the elder, and Mary Camp. She was born in Newark, May 24, 1761, died there, April 6, 1832. Remarkable for her piety and good works, she was much beloved by an admiring circle of friends, and at this day, nearly eighty years after her death, philanthropic and christian influences which she was largely instrumental in setting in mo- tion are still active in Newark. She was one of the organizers (January 31, 1803) of the Female Charitable Society of that city, and was its first directress. The minutes of the society contain frequent allusions to Mrs. Kin- ney, and in several passages are eloquently suggestive of her exalted spirit. Under date of April 28, 1805, it is stated that "Mrs. Kin- ney read a most tender and pathetic address, composed by herself, for the benevolent pur- pose of exciting sympathy in the bosoms of all present for the afflictions of the poor and
distressed." For some years after her hus- band's death she resided with a brother in Cin- cinnati, but the concluding portion of her life was passed in Newark. She left a number of diaries, preserved by the family, which are records of an intense but practical piety. Her portrait is expressive of a nature of exquisite delicacy, sweetness and charm. She was a descendant from
I. Thomas Burnet, born in Scotland, emi- grated to Massachusetts, and removed to Southampton, Long Island, where he received his allotment of land, October 16, 1643, and where he died, his will being proved December, 1684; married (second) in Lynn, Massachu- setts, December 3, 1663, Mary Pierson ; eleven children by his two wives, of whom the ninth was
2. Daniel Burnet, removed to Elizabethtown, New Jersey ; by his first wife had three chil- dren, the second of whom was
3. Ichabod Burnet, born in Southampton, Long Island, 1684; died in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, July 13, 1774; educated in Edin- burgh, Scotland, and was a physician, promi- nent and influential in the affairs of his com- munity ; married Hannah, and had two chil- dren, the elder of whom was
4. William Burnet, known as Dr. William Burnet, the elder, born in Lyon's Farms, New Jersey, December 2, 1730 (o. s.) ; died in New- ark, October 7, 1791 ; graduated from College of New Jersey (then in Newark) in 1749. studied medicine in New York City, and re- sided and practiced in Newark; one of the foremost New Jersey revolutionary patriots, active in raising and dispatching troops ; pre- siding judge of Essex county courts, 1776-86 : in 1780 delegate to the Continental congress ; a leader in establishing the military hospital in Newark, and surgeon-general by appointment from congress ; one of the founders of the New Jersey Medical Society, and a member of the Society of the Cincinnati ; married (first ) Janu- ary 23, 1754, Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Camp, and had by her eleven children (the fifth of whom was Hannah, below ), of these being Dr. William Burnet, the younger (whose daugh- ter Mary married Chief-Justice Joseph C. Hornblower, and was the mother of the wives of Judge Lewis B. Woodruff, of New York ; Justice Joseph P. Bradley, of the United States supreme court, and Governor William Penn- ington, of New Jersey), and Judge Jacob Bur- net ( who removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and was a prominent citizen there and author of the "History of the Northwest Territory") ; mar-
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ried (second), 1783, Gertrude, daughter of Nicholas Gouverneur, and widow of Anthony Rutgers, and had by her three children, of whom were Isaac Gouverneur Burnet (mayor of Cincinnati), and David G. Burnet (first president of the republic of Texas, 1836).
5. Hannah Burnet, married Abraham Kin- ney, above.
Children of Abraham and Hannah (Burnet ) Kinney: I. Thomas Talmadge, born in Speed- well, New Jersey, January 28, 1785; died in New York, January 2, 1826; a lawyer of emi- nent ability ; many years surrogate of Essex county ; member of New Jersey assembly, and in 1814 aide to Governor William Pennington ; married, July 5, 1809, Maria Webb, who died in Summit, New Jersey, April 15, 1880; no issue. 2. William Burnet, see below.
(III) William Burnet Kinney, second child of Abraham and Hannah (Burnet) Kinney, was born in Speedwell, New Jersey, Septem- ber 4, 1799, and died in New York City, Oc- tober 21, 1880. He was baptized William Au- gustus Burnet Kinney, but was always known as William Burnet Kinney. His education was received under the supervision of his father, a man of much culture, who made him his constant companion and with whom as a lad he served for some time in the war of 1812. It was the father's intention that he should enter the army, and accordingly he was sent to the Military Academy at West Point; but after his father's death he resigned his cadet- ship in deference to the wishes of his mother, who felt that his talents better qualified him for success in one of the learned professions or in literary pursuits. He then completed his studies under classical and mathematical in- structors of high repute and took up the study of law, at first in the office of his brother, Thomas Talmadge Kinney, and afterward with his cousin, Joseph C. Hornblower, later chief- justice of New Jersey.
At an early age he manifested marked ability as a speaker, and there was every promise of his having a distinguished career at the bar, but his tastes lay in the direction of general literature and scholarship. In 1820 he became the editor of the New Jersey Eagle, a weekly newspaper of Newark, which he conducted until 1825. In that year he removed to New York City, where he became active in organ- izing the Mercantile Library and was its librarian, and also associated himself with the publishing firm of Harper Brothers as one of its readers. Returning to Newark, he assumed the management of the Newark Daily Adver-
tiser, then the only daily newspaper in New Jersey, with which he united as its weekly issue the old Sentinel of Freedom. To this journal he gave a high literary standard.
In 1840 he was elected trustee of Princeton University, which had previously conferred scholarship honors upon him; and in the same year he was chosen delegate-at-large to the Whig convention that nominated General Har- rison for the presidency, but declined. In 1844 he served as a delegate to the Whig national convention at Baltimore, and in 1843 he was the Whig candidate for congress in the fifth district of New Jersey, but owing to a coali- tion of opposing forces he was defeated. In 1851 he was appointed by President Fillmore minister to the court of Sardinia, at Turin, where he served with distinguished ability and usefulness. Enjoying an eminent reputation for literary and scholarly culture and possess- ing a personality both engaging and forcible, he sustained intimate relations with the lead- ing men of the times who were engaged in the reconstruction of the Sardinian government on constitutional lines. "Count Cavour and other master minds of that kingdom were in constant consultation with him in reference to the practical working of our republican system, and his influence was strongly apparent in the establishment of the liberal institutions of Italy. He also rendered signal service to the govern- ment of Great Britain in consultation with its ambassador, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and for some important diplomatic business intrusted to him he received a handsome official acknowl- edgement in a special dispatch from Lord Pal- merston."
At the time of the Kossuth excitement it was largely owing to Mr. Kinney's secret dis- patches to Mr. Webster, then secretary of state, that the United States government was fore- warned of the perils of an official identification with the political controversies involved, and was thus preserved from foreign complication. While at the court of Turin, Mr. Kinney's sympathies and influence were especially exer- cised in behalf of all liberal and progressive causes. One noteworthy instance of this was his procurement from King Victor Emanuel of the right of religious toleration for the persecuted Waldensians, which led to the erec- tion of the first church edifice that sect was ever permitted to have in Turin, and the corner- stone of the church was laid by him.
After his term as ambassador expired, Mr. Kinney lived for several years in Florence. There he was one of a circle of famous literary
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and artistic characters, which included among its members the Brownings and Hiram Powers. For many years he had been much attracted by the romantic history of the Medici family, and during his stay in Italy he accumulated ma- terials for an exhaustive historical work on the subject, which, however, was left uncom- pleted at his death. While abroad he kept a diary, registering incidents of his official and private intercourse. This is in the possession of the family.
About the end of the civil war, Mr. Kinney returned to his home in New Jersey, where he led a retired life until his death, occupied chiefly with literary work. At the two hun- dredth anniversary of the settlement of New- ark, in May, 1866, he delivered the oration in the First Presbyterian Church, of Newark (published in the proceedings of the New Jer- sey Historical Society). During the closing period of his life he endured much suffering, and was thus prevented from realizing cherish- ed literary projects. He married (first), Sep- tember 16, 1820, Mary, daughter of Finley and Jemima (Winans) Chandler. She died Janu- ary 28, 1841, aged thirty-eight. She was de- scended from
I. Joseph Chandler, born about 1668, sup- posed to have come from Massachusetts to Elizabethtown, New Jersey, where he died June I, 1755.
2. Samuel Chandler, died in Elizabethtown, January 1, 1771.
3. David Chandler, born May 13, 1742 ; died January 3, 1786; lived in Lyon's Farms ; mar- ried, March 12, 1765, Sarah Thompson.
4. Finley Chandler, born October 14, 1772; lived in Elizabethtown; married, March 12, 1763, Jemima Winans.
5. Mary Chandler, married William Burnet Kinney, above.
Children of William Burnet and Mary (Chandler) Kinney: I. Thomas Talmadge, see below. 2. William Burnet, born September 10, 1824; died February, 1825.
William Burnet Kinney Sr. married (sec- ond), November 16, 1841, Elizabeth Clemetine, daughter of David Low Dodge, and widow of Edmund Burke Stedman. She was descend- ed from William Dodge, settler at Salem. Massachusetts, in 1629, one branch of whose family was established in Connecticut in rev- olutionary times and became prominent through the educational activities of David Low Dodge, the head of a private school in Norwich, who married a daughter of Rev. Aaron Cleveland, grandfather of President Grover Cleveland.
David Low Dodge engaged in large business enterprises, finally locating in New York; his daughter, Elizabeth Clementine (above), by her first marriage to Edmund Burke Stedman was the mother of Edmund Clarence Stedman, the eminent man of letters : and his son, Will- iam Earl Dodge, was the princely New York merchant. Elizabeth Clementine Dodge-Sted- man Kinney was a woman of intellectual ac- complishments and graces. She published "Felicita," a metrical romance; a volume of "Poems;" a tragedy in blank verse, and other writings. For an appreciative notice of her the reader is referred to "Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown," by Julia Keese Colles.
Children of William Burnet Kinney by his marriage to Elizabeth Clementine Dodge-Sted- man Kinney: 3. Elizabeth Clementine, mar- ried William Ingraham Kip, son of Right Rev. William Ingraham Kip, first bishop of the missionary jurisdiction and later of the diocese of California ; surviving children: i. Elizabeth Clementine Kip, married Guy L. Edie, of the United States army ; ii. Lawrence Kip; iii. Mary Burnet Kip, married Dr. Ernest F. Robinson, of Kansas City. 4. Mary Burnet, married Nelson Starin Easton, of New York City ; sur- viving children: i. William Burnet Easton, married Mittie Case, and resides in Strouds- burg, Pennsylvania ; ii. Alexander Nelson Eas- ton ; iii. Laird Easton ; iv. Henry Clement Eas- ton ; v. Mary Content Easton.
(IV) Thomas Talmadge Kinney, eldest child of William Burnet Kinney by his first wife, Mary Chandler, was born in Newark, August 15, 1821, and died there, December 2, 1900. He received his early education in the Newark Academy, and was prepared for col- lege in the classical school of Rev. William R. Weeks, D. D. In 1841 he was graduated from Princeton University. Among his classmates were John Craig Biddle, Francis Preston Blair. Amzi Dodd, Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, and Archibald Alexander Hodge. As a student he showed particular aptitude for the natural sciences. In his senior year he served as assist- ant to his professor, the distinguished Dr. Jo- seph Henry, and the intimacy thus established ripened into a personal friendship which con- tinued throughout life. After his graduation he studied law in the office of Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, who later became an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1844, but never practiced. Upon the retire- ment of his father from the editorship of the
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Newark Daily Advertiser in 1851, he succeeded as editor and manager. To his work he de- voted much energy, maintaining the high char- acter of the paper in all respects. He especially applied himself to the development of facilities for newsgathering, and was an important factor in the original system which culminated in the comprehensive organization known as the Associated Press. In 1860 he bought the property on the southeast corner of Market and Broad streets, Newark, which was then and still is the business center of the city.
Mr. Kinney was the projector of the New -- ark Board of Trade, and was sent by that body as its delegate to the convention which organ- ized the National Board of Trade in Philadel- phia. One of the founders of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, he was for many years its president. For a long time he was a trustee and the active manager of the Asylum for the Indigent Deaf and Dumb Chil- dren of New Jersey. He was also a member of the New Jersey State Board of Geology, and from 1878 to 1882 was president of the State Board of Agriculture, of which he was for many years a member. In 1860 he was one of the delegates to the Republican national convention at Chicago, actively supporting the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for the presi- dency. He was a director of the National State Bank, of Newark, the Newark City Ice Com- pany, and the Stephens & Condit Transporta- tion Company, and was one of the founders of the Newark Electric Light and Power Com- pany, and the Fidelity Title and Deposit Com- pany, of which he was president for many years from its organization. He was a mem- ber of the board of East Jersey proprietors, and an hereditary member of the Society of the Cincinnati. About 1895 he retired from the management of the Daily Advertiser. He was a staunch Republican, and when James G. Blaine was secretary of state received the offer of minister to Italy, which he declined. Having always a decided preference for quiet and unpretending pursuits and the life of a private citizen, he was never a candidate for public office. In his personal character he was active and earnest in devotion to his duties and obligations, possessing strong domestic affections and warm friendly attachments, and he exerted throughout his life a useful influ- ence.
He married, October 1, 1863, Estelle, daugh- ter of Joel W. and Margaret (Harrison) Con- dit. She was born in Newark, and died there, December 26, 1907. Her life was marked by
keen interest and much activity, quietly exer- cised, in philanthropic work in Newark. One of the founders of the Babies' Hospital and its president, she was incessant in her efforts to promote the usefulness of that institution. In a resolution of the board of managers of the hospital the following tribute was paid to her : "Kind, generous, and wise, her nature was adapted to the good work, and her great busi- ness capacity made her the best of managers and advisers. The hospital is a monument to her goodness and wisdom." The Newark Ex- change for Women's Work was established in 1881 at a meeting held in her home, and she was its president until her death. This organ- ization also has placed on record testimony to her conscientious and valuable services, in which reference is made to "her broad and ready sympathy with all in trouble or need; her innumerable acts of charity and kindness, which she with modest spirit made nothing of ; her genial spirit, which was an uplift to all who came in touch with her ; her many graces of mind and heart." She was descended from
I. John Condit, who came to America in 1678, and with his son Peter settled in New- ark, where he purchased lands.
2. Peter Condit, died 1714; married, 1695, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Ward) Harrison, and granddaughter of Sergeant Rich- ard Harrison, of Newark, and of Sergeant John Ward, of Newark.
3. Samuel Condit, born in Newark, Decem- ber 6, 1696; about 1720 bought land lying be- tween the Orange mountains in Pleasant Val- ley ; died July 18, 1777; married (first), 1722, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Martha Dod.
4. Daniel Condit, born December 27, 1723; died November II, 1785; lived on property which he inherited from his father ; in the rev- olution was a soldier in the First Battalion of the Second Establishment of New Jersey Mili- tia ; married Ruth, daughter of Gershom and Hannah (Lampson) Williams.
5. Joel,Condit, born about 1757 ; revolution- ary soldier ; married Sarah Wheeler.
6. Joel W. Condit, born July 2, 1795; died September 11, 1860; a prominent merchant of Newark; married, February 10, 1823, Mar- garet, daughter of Caleb and Keturah (Crane) Harrison, and had issue as follows : Mary H., Charlotte M., Caleb Harrison, Margaret, Sarah Katherine, Estelle, Alice and Alice again.
7. Estelle Condit, married Thomas Tal- madge Kinney, above.
Children of Thomas Talmadge and Estelle (Condit) Kinney: I. Mary Clementine, born
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August 12, 1864; married William Campbell Clark, of Newark; children : i. Estelle Camp- bell Clark; ii. Mai Felicity Clark. 2. Margaret Condit, born October 28, 1865 ; married, April 14, 1904, Carroll Phillips Bassett ; children : i. Carroll Kinney Bassett ; ii. Estelle Condit Bas- sett; iii. William Burnet Kinney Bassett. 3. Estelle Burnet, born July 9, 1868; married Frederick, son of Hon. Frederick T. Freling- huysen, of Newark; children : i. Frederick Frelinghuysen; ii. Thomas Talmadge Kinney Frelinghuysen; iii. Theodore Frelinghuysen ; iv. George Frelinghuysen. 4. William Burnet, see below. 5. Thomas Talmadge, born Octo- ber 24, 1872 ; died February 14, 1885.
(V) William Burnet Kinney, fourth child of Thomas Talmadge and Estelle (Condit) Kinney, was born in Newark, April 30, 1871. After completing his preparatory education he entered Princeton University as a member of the class of 1894. He pursued legal studies in the office of McCarter, Williamson & Mc- Carter, of Newark, and in 1896 was admitted to the New Jersey bar. Mr. Kinney resides in Newark, with a summer home in Elberon. He is a director in the National State Bank, of Newark, Firemen's Insurance Company, and Newark District Telegraph Company, and is a manager of the Howard Savings Institution. As a descendant of Abraham Kinney (see above), he is a member of the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of the Cincinnati.
He married, June 8, 1901, Helen M., daugh- ter of Franklin Murphy, who from 1902 to 1905 was governor of the state of New Jersey. Children : 1. Janet, born April 18, 1902. 2. Mai, September 10, 1903. 3. Constance, July 6, 1905. 4. Margaret Condit, August 23, 1909.
HOLLINGSHEAD Little appears to be known of this old and highly respectable
New Jersey family previous to the arrival of its American ancestor on this side of the At- lantic ocean.
(I) John Hollingshead, the immigrant, and his wife Grace, came from London, England, some time during the year 1678 and settled first near Salem, removing thence in 1682 to the vicinity of Rancocoas, and from thence to Burlington township, where he died in the latter part of 1699. By his will he nominated his wife Grace as executrix. So near as is known the children of John and Grace Hollingshead were: I. William, see below. 2. John, born in England, about 1669; married, 1693, Agnes, daughter of Thomas Hackney, and had sons
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