Husband William Kinnear 1
Born: 30 May 1783 - County Leitrim, Ireland 1
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Died: 24 Dec 1851 - Warren Co, PA 1
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Father: Alexander Kinnear (1757-1821) 2
Mother: Jane Ganley (1758-1843) 2
Marriage: 2 Dec 1806 - Huntingdon Co, PA 3
Wife Rebecca McIlvain 1
AKA: Rebecca McElvaine 4
Born: 27 Nov 1784 - Huntingdon Co, PA 1
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Died: 25 Feb 1853 - Warren Co, PA 1
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Father: William McIlvain ( - ) 5
Mother: Elizabeth [Unk] ( - ) 5
Children
1 F Mary Ann Kinnear 3
Born: 14 Dec 1807 - Bellefonte, Centre Co, PA 3
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Died: 28 Oct 1867 - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA 3
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Spouse: Josiah Burnett ( -Abt 1882) 3
Marr: 1834 - Enterprise, PA 3
2 M Alexander Kinnear 3
Born: 16 Feb 1810 - Morrison Cove, Huntingdon Co, PA 3
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Died: 17 Nov 1880 3
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Spouse: Elizabeth Clark (1822- ) 3
Marr: 1840 - Cumberland Co, PA 3
3 M William McIlvain Kinnear 3
Born: 25 Dec 1812 - Huntingdon Co, PA 3
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Spouse: Delia Alger ( - ) 3
Marr: Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA
4 M James Kinnear 3 6
Born: 22 Jan 1814 - Huntingdon Co, PA 3
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Died: 25 Feb 1902 - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA 3
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Spouse: Jeanette Stratton Parshall (1822-1906) 7 8
Marr: 24 Dec 1843 - Tidioute, Deerfield Twp, Warren Co, PA 9
5 F Rebecca Kinnear 8
Born: 5 Jun 1816 8
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Died: 3 Oct 1918 8
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6 M John Kinnear 8
Born: 3 Sep 1818 - Philipsburg, Centre Co, PA 8
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Spouse: Hulda Ruland ( - ) 8
7 M Ganley Kinnear 8
Born: 9 Mar 1821 - Venango Co, PA 8
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Spouse: Nancy Maria Ruland (1836- ) 10
8 F Elizabeth Kinnear 8
Born: 3 Sep 1823 - Venango Co, PA 8
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Spouse: William B. L. Tefft ( - ) 8
Marr: Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
Spouse: Llanghson Burroughs ( - ) 8
General Notes: Husband - William Kinnear
He was born in Ireland, a descendant of the Huguenots. He came to America in 1790 and settled with his parents, in the eastern part of Pennsylvania. In 1819 he, with his family, moved to western Pennsylvania and purchased of Cornplanter, chief of the Seneca Indians, a farm located at the mouth of Oil Creek, Venango County, where Oil City now stands. This farm consisted of two hundred acres, and was then an entire wilderness. Here he erected a furnace, and after a time sold the same and removed to Tidioute, where he bought lands at the mouth of Tidioute Creek, upon which the business part of Tidioute borough is now located. Here, in 1827, he erected the first saw-mill in the western part of Warren county. [HWC 1887, BP liv]
He married in the year 1806, and removed from Centre County, Pennsylvania, where his father had settled, to Venango County, in 1819. He bought a tract of two hundred acres of land at the mouth of Oil Creek, from Cornplanter, Chief of the Seneca Indians. Here he cleared about thirty-five acres, where the business part of Oil Creek was later located, and ten acres on Cottage Hill, as it came to be called. He also erected a furnace at that place.
In 1826, he sold his property in Venango County and removed to Warren County, settling in Deerfield township, at the mouth of Tidioute Creek. Here he purchased two hundred acres of the "John Spangler Tract" from Alexander McCalmont, agent. This purchase included Tidioute Creek for about one mile from its mouth. On this creek he erected a saw-mill in 1827, the first one ever built in Deerfield township. It was run by water power. Later other mills were erected and the class of lumber changed to boards and shingles.
At the age of 18 years he was put as an apprentice, for four years, to learn the millwright trade.
He was a member of the M. E. Church and was a class leader in that church in Philipsburg, Centre County, in 1804; his wife was also a member of this church.
General Notes: Wife - Rebecca McIlvain
She was born in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. [HWC 1887, BP liv]