The Kinnears and their kin; a memorial volume of history, biography, and genealogy, with revolutionary and civil and Spanish war records; including manuscript of RevDavid Kinnear (1840) . Hewas a leader in the agricultural fair movements, when itused to have its annual meet at Youngsville. He was an ex-ceedingly modest man. He admired and gave great praiseto others for their good deeds, ofttimes when he himself wagthe moving spirit, but took no credit to himself. I recol-lect that one morning when the mail had been received heannounced that he had a letter from Horace Greeley, andthat he had a
The Kinnears and their kin; a memorial volume of history, biography, and genealogy, with revolutionary and civil and Spanish war records; including manuscript of RevDavid Kinnear (1840) . Hewas a leader in the agricultural fair movements, when itused to have its annual meet at Youngsville. He was an ex-ceedingly modest man. He admired and gave great praiseto others for their good deeds, ofttimes when he himself wagthe moving spirit, but took no credit to himself. I recol-lect that one morning when the mail had been received heannounced that he had a letter from Horace Greeley, andthat he had accepted the invitation to make an address atthe Agricultural Fair. Everyone was pleased. But Greeleywas a poor penman, and later it was discovered that whathe really did write was his regret that he had to decbne theinvitation. He was one of the first—with Vincent, Miller and others—to start the first Chautauqua, on the west side of Chau-tauqua Lake, but told me he tried to buy the Bemus farmat Bemus Point, because of its high and beautiful he was the leader in developing and building up andlaying out the grounds at Point Chautauqua, on the eastside of the HENRY P. KINNEAR,BORN 1816. -^?^*u AND THEIR KIN 207 He served two three-year terms as Sheriff of WarrenCounty, and was a member of the State Legislature in thesession of 1847. In February of that year he got a billpassed making the bridge across Brokenstraw Creek atIrvineton a County bridge. Thirty-two years later I wasin the Legislature and on petition of 1,017 citizens of War-ren County, of which he was one, I had passed a bill re-pealing this act and making it a Brokenstraw Townshipbridge. He told me that at the time he got the bill passedthere was no railroad in Warren County, and the entirewest half of the County had to drive over that bridge ingoing to the County seat, and that the east half of theCounty had to drive over that bridge in their travels toTitusville, Erie and other places west, a
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