Asa Kinney

{{infobox officeholder

|name = Asa Kinney

|state = Wisconsin

|state_senate = Wisconsin

|district = 18th

| term_start = June 5, 1848

| term_end = January 7, 1850

| predecessor = Position established

| successor = Duncan Reed

|office1 = Member of the House of Representatives {{nowrap|of the Wisconsin Territory}} {{nowrap|from Milwaukee County}}

| term_start1 = February 7, 1848

| term_end1 = May 29, 1848

| alongside1 = Isaac P. Walker {{nowrap|& James Holliday}}

| predecessor1 = William Shew, {{nowrap|Andrew Sullivan}}, {{nowrap|& William W. Brown}}

| successor1 = Position abolished

|party = Democratic

|birth_date = {{birth date|1810|5|21}}

|birth_place = Homer, New York, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1886|10|3|1810|5|21}}

|death_place = Russell, Kansas, U.S.

|restingplace = Russell City Cemetery, {{nowrap|Russell, Kansas}}

|spouse = {{unbulleted list

| {{marriage|Diana Spicer|September 15, 1830|May 2, 1834|end=died}}

| {{marriage|Lucretia Grinnel|January 15, 1835|September 16, 1836|end=died}}

| {{marriage|Delia Ann Rawson|March 3, 1837||end=div.}}

| {{marriage|Rachel Chinneth|November 15, 1878|October 3, 1886}}

}}

|children = {{unbulleted list

| Tyler Asa Kinney

| {{sup|(b. 1831; died 1833)}}

| Alura (Stearns)

| {{sup|(b. 1833; died 1910)}}

| Abel Frink Kinney

| {{sup|(b. 1837; died 1890)}}

| Asa Tyler Kinney

| {{sup|(b. 1839; died 1861)}}

| Electa R. Kinney

| {{sup|(b. 1841; died 1926)}}

| Oliver Rawson Kinney

| {{sup|(b. 1843; died 1875)}}

| Sarah Kinney

| {{sup|(b. 1845; died 1845)}}

| Athelia Kinney

| {{sup|(b. 1846; died 1846)}}

| Francis Loammi Kinney

| {{sup|(b. 1847; died 1862)}}

| Martin Palmer Kinney

| {{sup|(b. 1849; died 1928)}}

| Mary M. (Lewis)

| {{sup|(b. 1851; died 1917)}}

| Charles J. Fremont Kinney

| {{sup|(b. 1856; died 1913)}}

| John C. Kinney

| {{sup|(b. 1859; died 1913)}}

}}

|allegiance = United States

|branch = United States Army
Union Army

|rank = Quartermaster

|unit = 4th Reg. Wis. Vol. Infantry
1st Reg. Wis. Vol. Cavalry

|battles = American Civil War

}}

Asa Kinney (May 21, 1810{{spaced ndash}}October 3, 1886)'The Convention of 1846,' vol. 27, Milo Milton Quaife, Wisconsin State Historical Society: 1919, pg. 781 was an American businessman, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He represented southern Milwaukee County in the Wisconsin State Senate during the 1st and 2nd legislatures (1848, 1849).

Biography

Born in Homer, New York, Kinney moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory, in 1836 and settled in Oak Creek where he had a farm. Kinney served in the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention. Then, in 1847–1848, Kinney served in the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives. He served in the first Wisconsin State Senate in 1848-1849 as a Democrat.'Memorial Record of the Founders of Wisconsin,' David Atwood, 1880, pg. 110-113 He moved to Plumas County, California to mine in 1852 and was elected as the first member of the California State Assembly from Plumas County in 1854, again as a Democrat.[http://www.cagenweb.com/plumas/bio4.htm Biographies of Plumas County, California][http://www.joincalifornia.com/candidate/10533 Join California.com-Asa Kinney] Kinney moved back to Wisconsin after the Assembly adjourned (without even going back to Plumas County) and settled in Ripon, Wisconsin. He served on the Ripon Common Council and was street commissioner. He also served as sergeant at arms in the Wisconsin Senate. In 1861, Kinney served as quartermaster in the 4th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War.{{cite news|title=Mustered Out: Col. Asa Kinney|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8517118/asa_kinney_18101886/|newspaper=The Atchinson Daily Champion|date=October 16, 1886|page=2|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = January 23, 2017 }} {{Open access}} He was discharged because of health. He then enlisted in the 1st Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Regiment and was commissioned a lieutenant and assigned to quartermaster. He stayed in the regiment until the end of the Civil War.'Memorial Record of the Founders of Wisconsin, David Atwood: 1880, pg. 110-113 In 1871, Kinney moved with some colonists from Ripon, Wisconsin, to Kansas where they helped plat the community of Russell, Kansas. Kinney served as a local judge in Russell and was in the banking and insurance businesses in Kansas and Wisconsin. Kinney died in Russell, Kansas.[http://genealogytrails.com/kan/russell/RussellCoHistory.html Russell County, Kansas history][http://genealogytrails.com/kan/russell/bios.html City of Russell, Kansas biographies-Asa Kinney]