Charles Hamilton Ritchie Birth Record. He was listed as Charles Hamilton Richie.

The Morning Oregonian, Portland, Multnomah Co., OR, March 13, 1879

NEW TO-DAY

I HAVE THIS DAY DISPOSED OF MY STOCK and good will to MRS. J. W. LEMMON, to whom I recommend my former patrons.

MRS. G. H. CLARKE

March 11, 1879.

The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA, Friday, April 21, 1882

BORN.

KINNEY - In Sacramento, April 7, to the wife of L. J. Kinney, a daughter.

The San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA, Sunday, June 8, 1890

A FEW DIVORCES. - Judge Lawler has granted William Donald a divorce from Elizabeth Wells Donald on the ground of desertion.

Abbie Bella F. Kinney has secured a divorce from Lindsley J. Kinney on the ground of failure to provide.

Albert Henry "Bert" Lovett and Arabella "Bella" (Fisher) Kinney Marriage License.

Albert Henry "Bert" Lovett and Arabella "Bella" (Fisher) Kinney Marriage Certificate.

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA, Sunday, January 6, 1895

Mrs. Bella Fisher Kinney and Mr. Albert H. Lovett, a prominent newspaper man of New York, were married in this city Monday, December 31, Rev. A. C. Bane officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Lovett will leave shortly for the East.

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA, Tuesday, February 18, 1896

SHE WANTS HEAVY DAMAGES

Value of a Wealthy Husband's Affections Appraised

MRS. LOVETT'S HEAVY LOSS

She Thinks Her Lost Love Was Worth Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars

Suit Against Her Father-in-Law For That Amount - Peculiar Allegations of a Daughter-in-Law

Mrs. Bella F. Lovett thinks her husband's affection is worth just $25,000 in good hard coin, and she has instituted suit against her father-in-law and mother-in-law, Mrs. Harriet and Henry P. Lovett, for that amount, alleging that they have alienated the affection of the said Albert H. Lovett, thereby causing her that amount of pecuniary loss, to say nothing of the attendant mental anguish. Mrs. Lovett in her complaint says that she has always been a true and loyal wife to Albert, and that prior to May, 1895, their relations were always pleasant. Since that time, however, they have not been living together, and Mrs. Lovett, jr., says that her mother-in-law caused the estrangement. The Lovetts, she says, are wealthy people, and her husband is the only son. His mother, she says, started in systematically, because she would not submit to her rule, to turn her husband against her. Mrs. Lovett says that her mother-in-law persistently carried stories to her son about her, saying that she was not a true wife to him, that she had no affection for him, and that, knowing that he was an only son and the heir to a comfortable estate, she only married him for the pecuniary advantages that would accrue. Finding that these stories did not have the desires effect, Mrs. Lovett, jr., says that her husband was threatened with disinheritance if he did not give up his wife. This awful threat was too much for the young man, and he promptly renounced the women he had promised to love, honor and support, and returned to his mamma. He was received after the manner of the prodigal son, and, after being arrayed in purple and fine linen, metaphorically speaking, was put on board a train and carried back in triumph to the classic shades of Boston. Mrs. Lovett, jr., who says that she has always been a good and dutiful wife, thinks that a $25,000 plaster will heal her lacerated feelings, and accordingly brought suit for that amount.

The Boston Post, Boston, Suffolk Co., MA, Wednesday, February 19, 1896

MOTHER-IN-LAW SUED.

Mrs. Albert Lovett Charged Her Husband's Parents at Boston With Alienating His Affections.

LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 18. - Mrs. Belle F. Lovett has sued her father-in-aw and mother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Lovett of Boston, for $25,000 damages for the alleged alienation of the affections of her husband, Albert H. Lovett, their son. Mrs. Lovett is the daughter of a prominent Sacramento newspaper man, while her husband is also a journalist. Young Mrs. Lovett alleges that her mother-in-law, whom, she says, is a wealthy resident of Beacon street, Boston, exercised the same restraint upon her son after his marriage as before, and that he finally deserted her, and is now living with his parents in Boston, while his wife is in a destitute condition in Los Angeles. Mr. Henry F. Lovett is a salesman at 108 Arch street, Boston. Albert Lovett, or Bert Lovett, his son, is a newspaper man, and now works on a Buffalo paper. He has been employed on Boston papers, on Western papers, and has been the Boston agent of the Western Associated Press. Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Lovett are now travelling in California, where they own a place, having gone there in January. Mr. Lovett has recently built a house in Brookline, into which the family moved just before they started on the trip.

The San Francisco Call, San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA, Saturday, April 11, 1896

LOS ANGELES ROMANCE.

Albert Lovett Is Twenty-Two Years Old and Has Been Thrice Married.

His Mother's Answer in the Damage Suit Filed by Wife Number Three.

LOS ANGELES, Cal., Apr. 10. - Mrs. Harriett Lovett, in her answer to the complaint of Mrs. Bella Lovett, who sues her parents-in-law for $25,000 damage because of the alleged alienation of her husband's affections, makes allegations that tend to show that Albert H. Lovett, the young husband who has been estranged, has been somewhat of a gay Lothario in his time. Albert was just 22 years old when he married the plaintiff, in 1894, but, according to his mother's statement, he was married twice before that. Mother Lovett, in her answer, goes somewhat into details about her son's doings, from which it appears that he has had some lively matrimonial experiences for one so young. She says he was an invalid and married Bella in 1894, when in California for his health. For five years before that he was wild and reckless. In 1890, while away from home, he married a woman in Chicago without his parents' consent, and she subsequently obtained a divorce from him. Again, in 1892, the young man married another woman, from whom he subsequently separated. Mrs. Lovett avers that Mrs. Bella Lovett herself had been married before she wedded young Lovett, and was a divorced woman, and that she expected by marrying her son to be benefitted materially. She claims that one reason why her son did not like his wife because she was continually asking him for money when he had none to give. Albert and his mother went on a trip to Boston, which the wife objected to, and which she claims was undertaken at the urgent request of her mother-in-law. In her answer, Mrs. Harriet Lovett says that, instead of trying to influence her son to take him, and said if she did not furnish him with funds to get away from his wife he would leave on a freight car, or would go on foot, or would "join a circus." The circus threat appears to have proven potential, for Mrs. Lovett bought her son a ticket and whisked him away to Boston. The old people are reputed to be quite wealthy, but they deny this, and say Mrs. Bella Lovett is not entitled to one cent for having inveigled their wayward son into his third unfortunate marriage.

The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA, Saturday, April 11, 1896

THREE WIVES IN FOUR YEARS.

Career of a Young Man From Boston.

IS ONLY TWENTY-TWO NOW.

PARENTS DENY ALIENATING HIS AFFECTIONS.

Sensational Facts Alleged by Defendants in a Los Angeles Damage Suit.

Special Dispatch to the Chronicle. LOS ANGELES, April 10. - Mrs. Bella Lovett's suit to recover $25,000 damages for the alienation of her husband's affections bids fair to become celebrated. Bella wooed and won Albert H. Lovett against the wishes of the elder Lovetts, who are fairly well known in this city and much more so in Boston, and if the statements of his parents are to be believed, she also succeeded in overcoming the better judgment of the young man himself when she prevailed upon him to make his ma her mother-in-law. In Bella Lovett's complaint filed in the Superior Court in February she alleged various reasons why the old folks should reimburse her in the amount named, her chief accusation being that they had entered into a systematic scheme to separate her from their son, and by false representations had succeeded in their design. The answers of the young man's parents were made known to-day. Mrs. Harriet Lovett, mother of the husband in litigation, plunges at once into the merits of the controversy by alleging that the son, instead of evincing sincere affection for his wife at all times, showed dislike for her and said he did not want to live with her. Mrs. Lovett says she could not have opposed her son's marriage with Mrs. Bella because the marriage was a complete surprise to her; that she did not know the woman at that time at all, but after the marriage did what she could to make things pleasant for them in her temporary home in Los Angeles. She also denies that she told her son his wife was untrue to him or had married him for money, or that she tried to get him away from her. There was a trip to Boston, taken by Albert and his mother, which the wife objected to. In her answer, Mrs. Harriett Lovett says that instead of trying to influence her son to take this trip, he implored her to take him, and said if she did not furnish him with funds to get away from his wife he would leave on a freight car or would go on foot, or, dreadful contingency, would join the circus. The circus threat appears to have proved potential, because Mrs. Lovett bought her son a ticket and whisked him away to Boston. Mrs. Lovett goes somewhat into details about her son, and from her statements he has had some pretty lively experiences. His mother says that in 1894, when he married Mrs. Bella, he was just 22 years old and she was several years older; that he was an invalid and had been brought to California for his health. For five years before that he was wild and reckless. In 1890, while away from home, he married a woman in Chicago without his parents' consent, and she subsequently obtained a divorce from him. Again, in 1892, the young man married another woman, from whom he subsequently separated. Mrs. Lovett avers that Mrs. Bella herself was a divorced woman, and that she expected by marrying her son to be benefited materially. She claims that one reason why her son did not like his wife was because the latter was continually asking him for money when he had none to give her; and she further alleges, though very indefinitely, that another cause of the desertion of his wife by Albert was the misconduct of the plaintiff Bella. Papa Lovett's counter allegations are much to the same effect.

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA, Friday, November 4, 1898

Court Notes

Suits for divorce were commenced yesterday by Emma V. Ambrose against George A. Ambrose, Luzia Luy against Michael Luy, and Bella F. Lovett against Albert H. Lovett.

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA, Friday, March 3, 1899

THE LOVETT DIVORCE.

Judge Trask granted a decree to Bella F. Lovett yesterday divorcing her from A. H. Lovett on the grounds of desertion and non-support. The parties were married on Dec. 31, 1894, and have resided at Pomona.

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA, Tuesday, July 25, 1899

NOTES AND PERSONALS.

Mrs. Bella Lovett and C. H. Ritchie were married Saturday, July 22. Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie will spend a few weeks at Catalina Island.

San Francisco Call, San Francisco, CA, Volume 87, Number 153, April 22, 1900

WARREN M. WATSON HAS RETIRED FROM BUSINESS

OAKLAND. April 21. - W. M. Watson, who has been the head of the W. M. Watson Company, one of the largest wholesale liquor firms in Oakland, has turned his company into a stock concern, and left this week for the Paris Exposition and a trip around the world, accompanied by his wife. Mr. Watson has disposed of his business to a number of his employes and his nephew. Those who now control the company are: C. T. Lemmon, Mr. Watson's nephew; J. J. Carroll of the Louvre. T. W. Sigourney, who has been the head of the store for many years; L. S. Farr, who has been the head bookkeeper, and P. O'Kane, the chief outside man of the company. Mr. Watson retains only a small Interest. W. M. Watson has 'always been one of the leaders in Oakland business circles and has been at the head and front of all moves for the benefit of the city. He will be gone abroad for more than a year.

Camillo Rudolph de Crescenzo and Mollie (Bailey) Levette Marriage Record.

Anna Ruth (a/k/a Mary Ruth) de Crescenzo Birth Record. This was Mollie's second child.

Mollie Bailey (Levette) de Crescenzo Death Record.

The Washington Post, Washington, DC, Saturday, Thursday, October 21, 1915

DEATH OF ALBERT H. LOVETT

Member of Staff of Washington Post Succumbs to Uremic Poisoning.

Albert H. Lovett, 45 years old, a member of the local staff of The Washington Post, died suddenly yesterday afternoon in his rooms at the Oxford Hotel from uremic poisoning. Mr. Lovett spent a portion of his life in Mexico, where for a long time he was managing editor of the Mexican Herald, the leading daily in the Mexican capital published in English. He had at various times held positions on newspapers in New York, Boston, St. Louis, Chicago and at San Francisco and other points on the Pacific coast. While a resident of the City of Mexico he was also connected with the national government as political agent and in the secret service, traveling extensively in Europe, China, Japan, Russia and other foreign countries for the Diaz administration. Following Diaz's retirement, Mr. Lovett came back to the United States in the interest one one of the contending factions. Mr. Lovett was a native of Los Angeles, Cal., where his father for years was prominently identified with the financial and banking interests of that city and the development of the section. Efforts are being made to locate his relatives.

The San Bernardino County Sun, San Bernardino Co., CA, Thursday, October 21, 1915

Albert H. Lovett, 45 years, the Oxford Hotel, 15th street and Pennsylvania avenue.

The Star, Washington, DC, Saturday, October 23, 1915

Albert H. Lovett Is Dead in East. Seek to Locate His Father

Does anybody know a rancher by the name of Lovett in San Bernardino county? His son, Albert H. Lovett, is dead in Washington, D. C., and the newspaper with which he was connected as a reporter last night asked THE SUN to locate Lovett, Sr. All directories fail to show Lovett's address in or near San Bernardino. If this should reach Lovett, Sr., he should at once communicate with THE SUN for the address he is to telegraph instructions.

Arnold Weir Wilhoyte Death Certificate.

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA, December 3, 1919

CLUBWOMAN DIES.

Was Former President of Congress of Mothers and Federation Officer.

Mrs. C. H. Ritchie, one of the best-known clubwomen of Southern California, died yesterday morning at her home, 2095 East Colorado street, Pasadena, after an illness of one year. She leaves a husband and two sons - Fisher, 17 years old, who is a recent graduate of Throop, and Ralph, 13 years old. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m., today at the undertaking parlors of Ives & Warren, in Pasadena. Mrs. Ritchie served as president of the Los Angeles district, California Congress of Mothers, and it was during her presidency that she adopted a little italian girl, whom she was given an excellent musical education. The child is now 12 years old. Mrs. Ritchie also served as a member of the Los Angeles district board, California Federation of Women's Clubs. Before moving to Pasadena, Mrs. Ritchie lived at Santa Monica.

The Idaho Statesman, Boise, Ada Co., Idaho Territory, December 28, 1919

FORMER RESIDENT PASSES

Mrs. C. H. Ritchie Dies at Home in Pasadena, California. Friends in the city have received the news of the death of Mrs. C. H. Ritchie of Pasadena, who will be remembered by pioneers of the city as Belle Lemon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lemon. Mr. Lemon was connected with the stage line in the early days. Speaking of her death a Pasadena paper says:

Many Pasadenans will learn with keen regret of the death yesterday of Mrs. C. H. Ritchie of 2095 East Colorado street. Though prominent in women's club life of southern California, she had not taken a very active interest in that work in the short time she had lived here, and is probably best known locally because of being director of the Pasadena Food Center during the war. She gave so generously of her time and energies for wartime purposes here and as a speaker in other parts of the Southland that her health failed and for several months she has been rapidly failing. Mrs. Ritchie was more prominent in club life while living at Santa Monica and Venice than since moving to Pasadena two years ago. She was chairman of the district Federation of Women's clubs, an active member and official of the Sunshine club, was a past president of the first district of California Congress of Mothers and P. T. A. of which she was parliamentarian at the time of her death. She was a member of the Shakespeare club and active in the work of the department of science of government.

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA, Sunday, September 14, 1924

Engagement Announced

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hamilton Ritchie of 2125 East Colorado street, Pasadena, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Proctor, to Ernest Crawford Moore of Lexington, Va., the ceremony to take place at the Ritchie home Saturday evening, the 20th inst. The bride will be given in marriage by Mr. Ritchie and the bridal party will include Mrs. W. D. Hammond of Los Angeles as matron of honor, Miss Elizabeth Allen and Miss Elizabeth McFarver, both of Bowling Green, Ky., as bridesmaids. Joseph L. Peterson of Salt Lake City will be best man. After the wedding reception Mr. Moore and his bride will leave for their honeymoon at Catalina. Miss Proctor was recently graduated from Logan College, Russelville, Ky., and is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Sorority.

Rocco Gagliardi and Anna Ruth (a/k/a Mary Ruth) de Crescenza Marriage Record.

Ernest Crawford Moore and Nancy Elizabeth "Betty" Proctor Marriage Record.

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA, Sunday, December 16, 1928

DEATHS

RITCHIE, At South Pasadena. December 15, 1928, Mrs. Maude Frances Ritchie, aged 45 years, a native of Kentucky, beloved wife of Charles H. Ritchie and mother of Mrs. Ernest C. Moore of South Pasadena. Funeral services will be held in the chapel of Turner, Stevens & Berry, 1000 Fremont avenue, South Pasadena, Monday at 2 p.m. Interment, Hollywood Cemetery.

The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY, Sunday, May 18, 1930

Bowling Green Society

The marriage of Mrs. Arnold Weir Wilhoyte of Pittsburgh, Penn., formerly of Bowling Green, and Mr. Charles Hamilton Ritchie of South Pasadena, Calif., has been announced by the bride's  mother, Mrs. James Ford Allen. The wedding occurred Saturday, May 4, 1930, at Santa Barbara, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie are at home at 506 Orange Grove, South Pasadena. Mrs. Ritchie was formerly Miss Ina Allen.

Charles Hamilton Ritchie (age 57), son of Thos. Ritchie and Jane Wescott, a resident of South Pasadena, and Ina (Allen) Wilhoyte (age 37), daughter of James Allen and Lillian Seward, a resident of Pittsburgh, PA, were married May 3, 1930, in Los Angeles Co., CA.

The Placer Herald, Rocklin, CA, Saturday, January 9, 1932

Death of Mrs. L. J. Kinney

Mrs. L. J. Kinney, wife of Probation Officer L. J. Kinney, died in San Francisco last Sunday night at St. Joseph's Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Kinney went down to San Francisco to visit Mrs. Kinney's sister, who is sick in a hospital there. Saturday Mrs. Kinney suffered a stroke of paralysis. The Kinneys were married about three months ago. Previous to her marriage Mrs. Kinney was Mrs. Anna L. Bradford. For seventeen years she was in charge of the business office of the Colusa Sun. She was a highly educated woman, a good housekeeper and a good homemaker. During her short residence in Loomis she had made a host of friends throughout the county. Mr. Kinney has the heartfelt sympathy of everyone in his bereavement. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at the Golden Gate Cremation Parlors in San Francisco.

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA, Thursday, April  11, 1935

OBITUARY

CHARLES H. RITCHIE

Funeral rites will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow for Charles H. Ritchie, 64 years of age, Southern California furniture man, who died of heart disease Tuesday at his home, 506 Orange Grove Avenue, South Pasadena. Services will be conducted from Cabot's Funeral Parlor, 27 Chestnut street, Pasadena, and interment in Hollywood Cemetery will follow. He leaves his widow, two sons, Ralph H. and Fisher Ritchie, and a sister, Mrs. Nellie Johnson.

The Auburn Journal, Auburn, CA, Thursday, September 10, 1936

L. J. KINNEY PASSES AT LOOMIS HOME

Lindsley Judd Kinney, Placer county probation officer passed away at his home near Loomis at 7:45 Saturday evening. Death followed a heart ailment which became acute July 18th when the veteran Placer county official was forced to bed. He failed to rally and his death had been expected for the past two weeks. Kinney was born in Rock Island, Connecticut on September 28, 1857. He came to California some forty years ago. The first ten years were spent in San Francisco, he later moved to Loomis where he purchased a piece of land and set out a deciduous orchard. He had resided on the Loomis property continually for the past thirty years. In 1919 he was appointed probation officer of Placer county a position he held up to the time of his death. During the time he served as probation officer the duties of that office increased many fold. Superior Judge J B Landis officiated at the services which were held from the Hislop Little Chapel of the Hills in Auburn Tuesday afternoon at 1:30. Cremation services in Sacramento were private. The deceased is survived by a widow, Mrs. Frances Kinney of Loomis; a sister, Mrs. Harriette Wright of Sacramento and two brothers, George N. Kinney of Auburn and W. C. Kinney of Winter Haven, Florida.

The Placer Herald, Rocklin, CA, Saturday, September 12, 1936

DIED

KINNEY - In Loomis, September 5, 1936, Lindsley Judd Kinney, a native of Rock Island, Ill., aged 78 years, 11 months and 7 days.

The Auburn Journal, Auburn, , CA, Thursday, July 14, 1938

Kinney Estate Is Sued By Heirs Of First Spouse

Mrs. Mary A. Williamson, executrix of the last will of the late Agnes Kinney, yesterday commenced an action in the superior court against Francis Davis Kinney, widow of the late probation officer, L. J. Kinney, to obtain title to disputed real and personal property. Mrs. Williamson seeks to quiet title to a $20,000 ranch; and to obtain jewelry and cash from the estate of L. J. Kinney. Mrs. Williamson relates in her complaint the real property sought was acquired by the first Mrs. Kinney in 1915, twenty-two years after her marriage to L. J. Kinney. She avers the property was deeded to L. J. Kinney without consideration July 18, 1923 by the late Mrs. Kinney, following representations made by Kinney. She also seeks two diamond rings, a pair of diamond ear rings, a necklace, and other personal property once owned by Mrs. Agnes Kinney, and now claimed to be in the possession of the defendant. The third item sought is $281.46 in cash, which Mrs. Williamson contends was inherited by the first Mrs. Kinney in South Dakota. It is claimed Kinney collected the money before his death and issued a receipt indicating he was executor of the first Mrs. Kinney's will.

The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA, Sunday, February 10, 1963

Deaths, Funeral Announcements

RITCHIE, Ralph S., beloved husband of Florence I. Richie, father of Mrs. Florence J. Clayton. Services at 3 p.m. Monday, Church of the Hills, Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills. Forest Lawn Mortuary.

Cornell Alumni News, March 5, 1936

NECROLOGY

'94 ME - Ralph Tomkins Close, early in February, at the home of his daughter, Elinor A. Close Cushman '11, in San Luis Rey, Calif. For some years he was superintendent of the Consolidated Gas Company of New York, then with the Westinghouse Construction Company, and was one of the seventeen Cornellians who in 1930 were associated with the Philadelphia, Pa., office of United Engineers and Constructors, Inc. He built the railroad terminal in the business center of Alberta, Can. Son, Ralph T. Close, Jr. '30.

Spouse:
  William Archibald McKay (1848 - 1931)

Mar. 13, 1866
Detroit
Wayne County
Michigan, USA

Jul. 24, 1919
Wailuku
Maui County
Hawaii, USA

Burial:
Iao Community Cemetery
Wailuku
Maui County
Hawaii, USA

Catherine Louise "Kittie" Ritchie McKay

Beloved Teacher Goes To Last Rest

Mrs. W. A. McKay Dies Peacefully At Her Home Thursday After A
Long Illness -- Had Helped Girls Greatly

Peace came to Mrs. Catherine McKay, wife of Judge William A. McKay yesterday afternoon at 12:45 o'clock, after an illness which had lasted for many months. Mrs. McKay had not been publicly seen In Wailuku since Christmas time in 1918, her last appearance having been made at the Wailuku Union church Christmas services.
In the passing of Mrs. McKay Wailuku loses a citizen and woman whom all loved and respected. She was interested in everything that tended for the betterment of the boys and girls, and her particular field was the girls. Many a young woman of Wailuku owes her start in life to the interest which Mrs. McKay took in teaching her to be self reliant and supporting. Catherine Ritchie McKay was born in Detroit, Michigan, March 13, 1866. She came to Maui as a school teacher in 1890 and taught at the Waihee School for two years. She was married to W. A. McKay, July 25, 1893, but continued her teaching and taught for 25 years. At the time of Hawaii's annexation to the United States she was the government postmistress, which position she had held for about three years.
She is survived by her husband Judge William McKay, and two brothers Charles H. Ritchie of Pasadena, California, Robbie Ritchie of Detroit, Michigan, and a sister Mrs. Hamilton Johnson of Los Angeles. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Wailuku Union church, Rev. R. B. Dodge officiating. The Internment will be at the Wailuku cemetery.

The Maui News, July 25, 1919, pg 1

L. J. KINNEY. — A name that will go down to posterity for the work he has done in various activities is that of L. J. Kinney. The positions he has efficiently occupied and the offices of trust and honor lie has filled with credit to himself and his constituency attest a remarkable career. The eldest of six children, he was born on September 28, 1857. in Rock Island. Ill. His father. John Henry Kinney, was born on August 19, 1832. in Norwich, Conn. He moved to Illinois, locating at Rock Island, where he had charge of the municipal water supply. From there he removed to Blackhawk, Colo., at the time of the Pike's Peak excitement in 1859: and he was elected the first mayor of the town. He organized a regiment of volunteer Colorado troops for service in the Civil War, and was thereafter always known as Colonel. He was a prominent figure in the mining circles of Colorado. The parents lived to celebrate their golden wedding, and were accorded some lasting gifts on this memorable occasion, some of which the son still keeps as precious heirlooms. The father was a splendid organist, and the mother was active in the Presbyterian Church, in Janesville. Wis., whither the family had moved. John Henry Kinney was married, in 1856, while living in Rock Island. Ill., to Mrs. Araminta Dormer Judd. who was born in Wilmington. Pa., on August 14, 1837. The parents spent their last days in Chicago.

The Kinneys are of Scotch descent. The early ancestors of the family- spelled the name "Kenne," and emigrated from Scotland to Connecticut. The spelling of the name was afterwards changed to Kinney. One of the family. Colonel Kenne served in the Revolutionary War. The Judd family were an old and prominent family in Pennsylvania. Grandfather Dr. Frederick Judd was a prominent surgeon in Rock Island, Ill., while his son, Dr. Ardo Judd, was dean of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Dr. Frederick Judd was a pioneer of Pike*s Peak in 1859, penetrating to Blackhawk, Gilpin County, where the mines were first started. He was interested in mining with associates, the firm being Lee, Judd & Lee. They were owners of the Bobtail Mine, and also the Gregory Mine, both large producers, John Henry Kinney being the manager of the mines. Their production and selling price meant millions to the owners. The mines were afterwards known as the Bobtail-Gregory Mines.

L. J. Kinney attended the public schools in Janesville, Wis., and later took a one-year course at Rush Medical College, Chicago, with the class of 1876, specializing in the study of modern materia medica and pharmacy. At the close of his first year at Rush Medical College, he took up the profession of the pharmacist, which he followed in Rock Island for two years, under John Bankson, until an explosion of a retort, while working in the laboratory, decided him to give up indoor work. He then went to Colorado, making his way to Carbonite, above Leadville, where he followed mining under David Moffitt and Mr. Skelton. He joined them in the construction of a toll-road, but Skelton appropriated all the funds and made his way to Mexico. L. J. Kinney, as a deputy, followed him to Chihuahua, where he found Skelton had left for the Bad Lands, leaving little chance to overtake him. Mr. Kinney then made his way to Albuquerque, where he was foreman of the Lucky Mine for seven months, and then came to San Francisco, in 1881, where he was a clerk in a wholesale grocery store for five years. The failing health of his father called him back to Chicago, and there he obtained a position in the grocery department of the Sears-Roebuck Company. The
stock in the department then invoiced only $15,000. He applied himself closely to the business and got to be assistant manager : and when he resigned in 1905, after a little more than four years with them, the stock in this department had grown to over $1,000,000.

Mr. Kinney is now engaged in orcharding on his fifty-acre ranch two and a half miles east of Loomis, where the family home is newly completed with all modern conveniences. The place was formerly called the Fitch Ranch, but is now known as "The Falls Orchard."' It is interesting to note how this orchard was named by the owner. A twenty-five-foot fall in the ditch on the ranch has been utilized by a nine-foot over-shot water-wheel which operates a seven-inch pump and lifts the water sixty-five feet to the top of the hill or knoll on the ranch, from which the whole place is irrigated by gravity. In early days this knoll, being the highest point, was a lookout or signaling place used by the bandits.

Mr. Kinney was married in Newcastle, in 1892, being united with Miss Agnes Kirk, a native of Janesville. Wis., a daughter of Thomas and Mary E. (Auld) Kirk, natives of Scotland. Thomas Kirk was a prosperous business man in Janesville, Wis., until his demise. He was a very prominent Mason, having been honored with the thirty-third degree. Mr. Kinney is a staunch Republican and takes an active interest in county politics. He has served as probation officer for Placer County, succeeding County Clerk Flemming in 1918; the duties have since trebled, and he is doing efficient work. He has also given valuable service as a member of the Placer County Chamber of Commerce and as a director in the California Fruit Exchange and vice-president of the Loomis Fruit Growers' Association; and he was formerly vice-president of the Lincoln Cannery Association, of which he was one of the founders.