Personal Life
Kinney married twice:
- In 1820, he married Mary Chandler. She died in 1841 at the age of 38. They had two children:
- Thomas Talmadge Kinney
- William Burnett Kinney, Jr.
- In 1841, he married Elizabeth Clementine Stedman, the author. They had two children:
- Elizabeth Clementine Kinney who married William Ingraham Kip Jr. (1840-1902), the rector of Good Samaritan Missions in San Francisco and the son of Episcopal bishop and missionary to California, William Ingraham Kip. They had four children, three of whom survived to adulthood: Elizabeth Clementine Kip (married Guy L. Eddie of the U.S. Army); Lawrence Kip; and Mary Burnet Kip (married to Dr. Ernest Franklin Robertson of Kansas City, KS).
- Mary Burnet Kinney.
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“The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people. To ‘see the light’ too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.”
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