Olive Douglas Kinsman was born in 1800. In 1812 she was sent east to be educated, to Norwich and Hartford where she studied in the schools of Lydia Huntley Sigourney, the poet, who. at her father's death dedicated a poem of condolence to O.D.K. Thence she went to the well-known Litchfield school, then under the direction of Miss Pierce and at the time when Dr. Lyman Beecher, every week, delivered dissertations to the young ladies besides preaching to them on Sundays. On her return home, after seven years, she traveled from Chambersburg, Pa., on horseback, but the result of the long ride was an injury from which she never recovered. She married George, son of Hon. Zephaniah Swift. Chief Justice of Connecticut. Her husband practiced law in Warren a while then came to Kinsman to live. She died, aged thirty-five, leaving three children.
