Charles Kinney

Charles Kinney

Charles Kinney (born July 7, 1850 in Springville , Kentucky , † September 15, 1918 ) was an American printer, trader and politician ( Republican Party ). He was Secretary of State of Ohio from 1897 to 1901 .

Career

Charles Kinney, son of Elizabeth W. Cox and Charles W. Kinney, was born about two years after the end of the Mexican-American War in Greenup County and spent his childhood there. Then when his father died in 1861, he moved to Columbus ( Indiana ), where he had settled down to 1,872th Kinney graduated from high school there in 1866. His school days were overshadowed by the civil war. He then went into the printing trade until he moved to Portsmouth, Ohio . After his arrival, he worked as a dealer for four years before resuming his work as a printer. In 1877 he was made Deputy Treasurer ofScioto County - a position he held until 1880. He was elected treasurer of Scioto County in 1883 . Kinney held the post for four years. He then served as Chief Clerk under the Secretaries of State Daniel J. Ryan and Samuel McIntire Taylor . In 1896 he was elected Secretary of State himself and re-elected in 1898. After the end of his second term, he devoted himself to corporate law in Columbus. He died on September 15, 1918. His final years were overshadowed by the First World War . He was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery in Portsmouth.

family

Kinney married Letitia Hammond Yoakley (1856-1921) of Portsmouth on October 8, 1879. The couple had a daughter named Lida.

Works

• 1911: Vagrant Verse

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Charles Kinney on the Genealogy.com website
2. ^ Smith, Joseph Patterson: History of the Republican Party in Ohio , Volume 1, Lewis Publishing Company, 1898, 700
3. ↑ ^{a b} James Kazerta Mercer and Edward K. Rife: Representative men of Ohio, 1900-1903 , James K. Mercer, 1903, pp. 207f
4. ^ Charles Kinney in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved May 3, 2015.
5. ↑ Letitia Hammond Yoakley on the website of Genealogy.com