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Descendants of David Albert Kinney

Generation No. 2

       2. Wiliam M² Kinney (David Albert¹) was born May 01, 1812 in Belvidere, and died September 08, 1877 in Andover, New Jersey. He married Mary Dennis May 09, 1840 in Andover, NJ, daughter of John Dennis and Diadema Tingley.

Notes for Wiliam M Kinney:
Andover, NJ cemetery
1820 PA CENSUS - WILLIAM KINNEY There are 3 of them.

From "Sussex County" by James P. Snell, between pages 448 & 449.

       William Kinney, son of David and mary (Mowry) Kinney, was born in Belvidere, Warren co., NJ, May 1, 1812. His father, David Kinney, an active businessman, bought an oilmill near Belvidere, which he was carrying on during the war of 1812. He subsequently removed to Augusta, Frankford township, Sussex Co., and carried on farming, and afterwards resided on the Henry Price farm for twelve years, when he purchased a farm in the township of Sparta, where he lived until his death, in 1854. His age was about seventy-five years, and his wife died at about the same age. Their children were Jacob, William, Philip, Betsey, Sarah Ann, Fanny, Mary, Ellen, Jemina, and Jane.
       William Kinney married, May 9, 1840, Mary, daughter of John and Diadama (Tingley) Dennis, of Lafayette; she was born May 20, 1819. Her grandfather was Jesse Dennis, who married, for his first wife, a Miss Schooley, and for his second Martha, daughter of George McCoy, a large landowner in Sussex County during his time. The children of John Dennis were Joseph, James, Levi, Nathaniel, John, Ezekiel, Jackson, David, Mary and Elizabeth (twins), and Matilda.
       For five years after his marriage Mr. Kinney resided on a farm near Sparta containing three hundred acres, which he paid for during that time. For ten years following he resided near by this farm upon sixty acres of land, a subsequent purchase, upon which he built a residence, when, in 1857, he settled at Andover, then consisting of a few houses, where he purchased about on hundred acres of land adjoining the village. This propery he laid out in lots and streets, and a large part of the present village of Andover is a portion of the propery belonging to this purchase. During his residence at Andover he purchased about one hundred and forty acres of land, upon which is located a valuable linestone-quarry, which he retained for a few years, and disposed of the quarry to the Musconetcong Iron-Works Company at a large advance. These interests were only a part of the transactions in real estate in which he was engaged. He was naturally a speculative disposition, and his far-seeing judgment and superior business ability made him a very successful financier and dealer in property. The residence now occupied by his widow he built in 1875.
       For many years, Mr. Kinney was officially connected with township matters. He was an active and earnest supporter of the Democratic party, and wielded a large influence in township and county affairs. He was a man of strong convictions, carried forward to a successful issue whatever he undertook, even through great difficulties, and his energy and resolution to embark in an enterprise were always based upon his good judgment and sound common sense. His children are Horatio N.; Martin R.; Diadama, wife of Alfred Loder, of Newark; Jane, wife of Rev. E. Meachem, a Methodist Episcopal clergyman; David, deceased; Sarah Ann, wife of Joseph Longcor, of Sparta; Isabel, deceased; William; Ella, wife of William Garret Hopkins, who resides on the homestead, in Sparta; Lydia, wife of John Hart, of New York; John; and Lizzie.
       Horatio N. Kinney, eldest son of William and Mary Kinney, was born in the township of Lafayette, Dec. 19, 1839, and married, in September, 1860, Anna E., a daughter of Simeon Struble, of Andover. Her father is a descendant of Peter Struble, who emigrated from the province of Alsace, Germany, in 1748, with his family, and settled at German Valley, NJ and about 1752 removed and settled on Smith's Hill, in the old township of Newton, Sussex Co., and from whom the numerous family of Struble in Northern Jersey ae descended. His children are Mary D., George, Clark, and Rose.
       Mr. Kinney for one year after his marriage was a farmer in Sparta, and for three years following was engaged with his father in the limestone-quarry at Andover, and im improving that propery after its purchase. subsequently he purchased on hundred and forty acres near Struble's Pond, in andover township, to which he had added sixty acres more, making his present valuable farm of two hundred acres. Upon this property he has erected commodious buildings, and everything about his premises bespeaks a thrifty and enterprising farmer. Since his first connection with the quarry at Andover, along with his farming, he has been a contractor for the Musconetcong Iron Company, and has got out large quatities of stone, which are used as a separator of iron ore.
       Mr. Kinney is an enterprising and thorough going business man. He has been officially connected with the local affairs of his township, and has been chosen freeholder and held other minor places.

Notes for Mary Dennis:
Notes from Mrs. Fred R. Rogers - Feb. 20, 1960
132 South Munn Avenue
East Orange, New Jersey

Buried in Andover, New Jersey cemetary with her husband and other members of the family.

Birth dates for twins per History of Sussex & Warren Counties, NJ page 448C. (Mac Dalrymple - Nov 21, 1996)


Children of Wiliam Kinney and Mary Dennis are:

Martin R³ Kinney, born 1842; died October 01, 1910 in Andover, NJ.

ii.

Horatio N. Kinney, born December 19, 1839 in Lafayette Twp; died in Andover, NJ.

iii.

Diadama Kinney. She married Alfred Loder in Newark, NJ.

iv.

Jane Kinney. She married Enoch Meachum March 25, 1868.