Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Kinney, Jonathan Kendrick

KINNEY, Jonathan Kendrick, lawyer, b. in Royalton, Windsor co., Vt., 26 Oct., 1843. He is a great-grandson of the Rev. Jonathan Kinney, and was educated in the common schools of his native town, and at the Royalton academy. He served in the volunteer army in the civil war, and at its close engaged in business in the west, and later entered the Harvard law-school, where he was graduated in 1875. He has since practised his profession, reported cases, and contributed to legal periodicals. He has published “A Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States” (Boston, 1887), and edited the “Law of Railways,” by Isaac F. Redfield (1887).