KINNARD
KINNEY
John Graves Simcoe, but was released on parole.
He was a representative in the South Carolina leg-
islature for several years; was justice of the peace
and a delegate to the convention of 1787, where he
favored the adoption of the federal constitution.
He was a member of the legislative council in
1789 and of the state constitutional convention of
1790. He assisted liis brother Cleland in re-
storing their rice plantations, destroyed during
the war. He resided in France and Switzerland
with his family, 1803-06. He is the author of:
Eulogy on George Washington, Esq. (1800); Letters
from Geneva and Finance (3 vols., 1819.) He died
in Charleston, S.C. Feb. 8, 1826.
KINNARD, George L., representative, was born in Pennsylvania in 1803. He early removed with his widowed mother to Tennessee, where he was educated and where he learned the printer's trade. He settled in Indianapolis, Ind., about 1823, where he was employed for a short time in a printing office. He was next employed as a school-teacher in Marion county, and engaged in surveying. He was elected captain of one of the first military companies formed in Marion county, was admitted to the Indianapolis bar, repre- sented Marion county in the Indiana legislature, served as state auditor and afterward commanded a regiment of state militia. He was a Democratic representative from Indiana in the 23d and 24th congresses, serving from Dec. 2, 1833, to Nov. 16, 1836, when he was seriously injured in the boiler explosion on the steamer Flora, while on his way to Philadelphia to be married. He died of his injuries near Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 26, 1836.
KINNE, La Vega George, jurist, was born in Syracuse, N.Y., Nov. 5, 1846; son of ^sop and Mary (Beebe) Kinne, and grandson of Zachariah Kinne. He was graduated at the Syracuse public school and in 1865 moved to Mendota, 111. He was graduated at the University of Michigan, LL.B., 1868, was admitted to the bar of La Salle county, 111., in 1867, and practised at Mendota, 1868-69, and at Toledo, Iowa, 1869-87. He was married, Nov. 23, 1869, to Mary E., daughter of Nathaniel J. Abrams, of Peru, 111. He was judge for the 17th judicial district, 1887-91; a judge of the supreme court of Iowa from Jan. 1, 1892, to Dec. 31, 1897, and an unsuccessful candidate for circuit judge in 1872, for district attorney in 1874 and for governor in 1881 and 1883. In 1884 he was appointed a member of the commission on uniformity of laws; in 1896 was elected president of the Iowa State Bar association, and in 1898 be- came a member of the board of control of state institutions, and chairman of the board.
KINNERSLEY, Ebenezer, electrician, was born in Gloucester, England, Nov. 30, 1711; son of the Rev. William Kinnersley, who immigrated to America with his family in 1714 and founded
at Lower Dublin the first Baptist church organ-
ized in Pennsylvania. Ebenezer was instructed
by his father, and taught school in Philadelphia,
Pa, He was married in 1739 to Sarah Duffield.
He was ordained a minister of the Baptist church
in 1743 and was connected as pastor with Baptist
churches in Philadelphia and vicinity, 1743-54.
His opposition to Whitefield, the evangelist, dis-
pleased the Baptists and he withdrew from the
pulpit. In 1746 he became connected with Ben-
jamin Franklin, Edward Duffield, Philip Syng
and Thomas Hopkins, in making experiments
with electrical fire, and in April, 1751, he began to
lecture in Philadelphia on the wonders of electri-
city, illustrating his talks by practical experi-
ments. In September, 1751, he delivered in Faneuil
Hall, Boston, Mass., the first recorded experi-
mental lectures on electricity. While in Boston
he discovered the difference between electricity
that was produced by the glass and by sulphur
globes, and his experiments proved the truth of
the positive and negative theory. In March,
1752, in lectures given at Newport, R.I., he
claimed that buildings might be protected from
lightning, and two months later Benjamin Frank-
lin drew electricity from the clouds. He was
chief master of the English department and pro-
fessor of English literature and oratory in the
College of Philadelphia, 1753-73. During his life
he was more prominently known in connection
with the science of electricity than was Franklin.
In 1757 he invented an electrical thermometer and
also proved for the first time that electricity gen-
erated heat. He was a member of the American
Philosophical society, 1768-78; received the hon-
orary degree of A.M. from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1757, and was further honored
by the trustees of the university by the erection
of a memorial window. He died in Lower Dublin,
Philadelphia, Pa., July 4, 1778.
KINNEY, Abbot, author, was born at Brook- side, N.J.,Nov. 16, 1850; son of Franklin Sher- wood and Mary (Cogswell) Kinney; grandson of Dr. Perley and Elizabeth (Sherwood) Kinney and of the Rev. Jonathan and Mary (Abbot) Cogs- well; and a descendant of Joseph Kinne, who came to Rhode Island in 1646. Abbot Kinney engaged in fruit farming in California. He was chairman of the California state board of fores- try; special commissioner, with Helen Hunt Jackson, to the Mission Indians; an officer in Egypt on the U.S. geological survey in 1873, and major in the California national guards, 1883. He was made chairman of the state commission to manage the Yosemite valley in 1897; presi- dent of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 1898 and 1899; president of the South- ern California Pomological society and vice- president of the American Forestry association of
