Person:Simeon Kinney (1)

This comes from the Yarmouth Nova Scotia Genealogies, Transcribed fromthe Yarmouth Herald by George S. Brown pages 396 & 397:

Mr. Alfred A. Doane, now of South Boston, has this morning kindly sent methe following notice of Capt. Kinney's death from a San Francisco paperof the time: "Capt. Simeon B. Kinney, one of the early pioneers of California, died athis residence on Post St., San Francisco, on Sunday morning June 7,(1873) in the 67th year of his age. Capt. Kinney was widely andfavorably known as one of the oldest and ablest ship-masters of thiscoast. He was born at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in the year 1808, andarrived at this port in command of the bark "Duke of Wellington" from St.John, N.B. in 1850, from which time to the prosent his name has beenidentified with the merchant marine of San Francisco, he having beenalmost constantly and very successfully engaged in coasting and in theChina and East India trade from this port. In addition to an unusuallylarge number of old and warm friends, to whom he was endeared by years ofassociation, he leaves to mourn their loss, six sons and daughters, morethan twenty grandchildren, all of them residents of this coast, andnearly all of these three generations of descendants present to comfortthe last hours of one who during a long and active struggle with thecares and trials of this life never once failed in his duty as a man, andwho died with a Christian's resignation and with a full and well foundedhope of a Christian's life hereafter."

Mr. Doane writes that his great grandfather, Israel Doane,sr., and NathanKinney,sr., came together from Barrington to Little River.

1. ↑ George S. Brown. Yarmouth Nova Scotia Genelaogies Transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald. (1901)
   394.
2. ↑ George S. Brown. Yarmouth Nova Scotia Genelaogies Transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald. (1901)
   394.
3.   George S. Brown. Yarmouth Nova Scotia Genelaogies Transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald. (1901)
   394.