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From: "Cathy & Vin Di Pietro" <>
Subject: [KINNEY] Barnabas/Levi KINNEY Biog. from Upstate NY
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 08:50:57 -0500


Found on the Enchanted Mountains Genealogy Society web site:
http://www.enchantedmountains.com/POTTER/beers.htm

CAPTAIN LEVI H. KINNEY, farmer, P. O. Shinglehouse, was born
in Old Sodus, Wayne Co., N. Y., July 27, 1819, a son of Barnabas
and Naamah (Holcomb) Kinney, natives of Hillsdale, Columbia Co.,
N. Y. His paternal grandfather was Barnabas Kinney, a native of
Scotland, who served through the Revolutionary war, and was a
pioneer of Sodus, Wayne Co., N. Y. Though exempt from duty,
he raised a company at Sodus, to participate in the war of 1812.
His maternal grandfather was Return Holcomb, a native of
Connecticut, who served in the French war of Canada, went
through the Revolution, and was long a resident of Columbia
county, N. Y., but died in Greene, Chenango Co., N. Y. Our
subject was reared in Jasper, Steuben Co., N. Y., from five
years of age, where be received a limited common-school
education. In 1845 be came to Sharon, this county, where he
worked in a saw-mill two years for $18 per month, and boarded
himself. In the spring of 1847 he purchased the farm he now
owns and occupies, all of which he has cleared and improved;
for many years prior to the war he was engaged in lumbering.
In August, 1861, he raised Company D, Eighty-fifth New York
Volunteers, with whom he was mustered into the service as
captain, and served three years, when he was honorably
discharged. In 1839 he married Mary, daughter of Caleb
and Deborah (Silsby) Tyler, of Steuben county, N. Y., and to
them were born three children: Angie, Alanson T. and
Bryce B. Alanson T. was in the Civil war and served two years
as a private in his father's company, but was promoted to
second lieutenant; he resigned and returned home, and raised
Company F, Two Hundred and Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers,
with which he was mustered in as captain; was wounded
twice, and was disabled at Gravelly Run, April 4,1865; he was
mustered out with the company in June, 1865; he is now the
sheriff of Branch county, Mich. Bryce B. was also a soldier,
a member of Company B, Second Iowa Cavalry, and died, in
1872, of disease contracted while in the service. Capt. Kinney
is a prominent and representative citizen and farmer of Sharon.
He has served one term of three years as commissioner for
Potter county; he is a member of the Grand Army of the
Republic, and politically is a stanch Republican.

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