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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [252-253]

           JOHN KINSH, farmer, section 4, Bloomfield Township, was born
        Oct. 31, 1826, near Brockville, Ont.  His parents, JOHN and ANN
        (CRAMPTON) KINSH, were respectively of Irish and Welsh descent, and
        are both deceased.  The father was 76 years of age at the time of
        his decease; the mother died when she was 78 years old.
           At the age of 23 years, MR. KINSH commenced a long course of
        journeying in the Western States and Territories, California,
        Washington Territory, and in British Columbia. After traveling
        through 19 States and Territories, he returned to the Dominion,
        where he was associated with a business firm in a mercantile
        enterprise 10 years, located at Carleton, 28 miles west of Ottawa.
        He acted as salesman in the establishment five years, and after the
        loss of about $14,000 through his partner, he left Canada. He came
        to Huron County, bought 85 acres of land in Bloomfield Township,
        and has lived here ever since. He paid cash for his farm with the
        remnant of his fortune which he saved from the wreck of his mercan-
        tile business in Canada. It was the last of $10,000 he had made in
        California in mining. In the fire of 1881 his accumulations on the
        farm all vanished save a cradle and a rake which he had left in the
        harvest fields.
           MR. KINSH is a Republican in political persuasion, and in reli-
        gious opinion is an Episcopalian. He has been School Assessor nine
        terms. He was married Nov. 13, 1872, in Carleton Place, Quebec, to
        MARGARET BURKE. Six children have been born of this marriage:
        EDMOND, May 4, 1874; THERESA, Nov. 14, 1876; OTIS, June 30, 1877;
        SAMUEL, Jan. 31, 1879; WALLACE, Sept. 27, 1881; ELLEN, Feb. 4,
        1884.  MRS. KINSH was born Nov. 8, 1851, and is the daughter of
        EDMOND and MARY (McCARTHY) BURKE. Her parents are deceased. She is
        a Roman Catholic.

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