Portal:Charles F. Kinner

Works about Charles F. Kinner

• George Washington Kinner (1919)

Death of his brother. "… Mr. Kinner came to Port Jefferson about 50 years ago, just after his marriage to Miss Julia A. Davis, of Middle Island, and they went to housekeeping in the home in which they have always lived. One son was born to them, Caleb Kinner, who died when a small child. Mr. Kinner was a veteran of the Civil War. He enlisted in August 1862, and was member of the 189th Regiment, New York Volunteers. He saw active service for thirty-four months, and was wounded in the battle at Petersburg, Virginia and was invalided to a hospital where his right foot and part of the leg was amputated. After his return home from the war Mr. Kinner was appointed postmaster at the Port Jefferson Post Office and held that position for twenty-one years, after which he lived a retired life. …"

• Capt. Charles F. Kinner (1899)

His death. "Capt. Charles F. Kinner, an old and highly respected resident of this village, died suddenly last Friday night."

• Death of Charles F. Kinner, Captain of the Yacht Nirvana, From a Stroke of Paralysis (1899)

His death. "Captain Charles F. Kinner died Saturday last of paralysis. … Captain Kinner was 69 years of age. He has led a sea faring, life since boyhood and for the past thirty-five years has followed yachting. At the time of his death he was in command of the schooner yacht Nirvana, owned by the estate of the late George I. Tyson of Riverside and now in winter quarters at this place. He leaves a widow and three children, Mrs. Daniel S. Smith, Captain Charles D. and Joseph Kinner. He was twice married. Mrs. Smith was a daughter by his first wife."

• Capt. Charles F. Kinner (1896)

"Capt. Charles F. Kinner is one of the most respected and venerable figures of the early life on the island that is familiar to the vision of the present generation. He was born in Port Jefferson in 1829, being the son of Caleb and Maria (Davis) Kinner, natives of this county, who spent their lives within its borders. His father, who was a seaman, followed that occupation until within five years of his death, which occurred in 1875. His wife died the year before his demise."

• Brave Captain Kinner (1888)

"The schooner yacht Nirvana belonging to General H. W. Perkins of this city recently returned from her annual cruise among the islands of the Bahama group in charge of her veteran Captain, Charles Kinner, of Port Jefferson, Long Island, who has for a number of years sailed the General's yachts at home and abroad."

• How Do You Account For It? (1887)

I was talking the other day with Captain Kinner, now master of the schooner-yacht Nirvana and a "sailor from way back," and chanced to ask him if he'd had any fishing this season. He said in reply that he had not, and said moreover that there was something curious about it too. "Why," said he "we've been outside along the near-by coast pretty much every week this summer, cruising about anywhere from one to twenty miles off shore, and we've never failed to troll the 'squids' astern on the chance of hooking a stray bluefish, as we've done many years before from this and many other boats I've sailed. This year, however, we haven't had a single 'strike' of any sort whatever. Now, I might think that this was only 'just our luck,' but I was talking to the captain of one of the pilot-boats the other day, and he assured me that he had the same experience all during the season. He told me that in former years they had always managed first and last to catch by trolling all the fish they wanted to eat at some time during the season. Sometimes they were 'running' and sometimes they weren't, but sooner or later they would always get into a school of 'em and hook onto all they wanted. This year, however, he had sailed his boat up and down through schools of bluefish away out to sea, and done the same in shore where the 'chummers' were anchored and catching 'em that way hand over fist, but never a bluefish, big or little, would take a squid or any other trolling lure that he had used." Now we have here the simple evidence of two intelligent and observant seafaring men about a matter which is of no great importance to either of them and is of the more value on that account. Of course it does not prove anything, but it suggested the query "How do you account for it?" It is possible, but not probable, that the bluefish have reached a point in their evolution where they recognize the metal "squid " as an hereditary danger-or rather they have an hereditary perception of the danger of the metal "squid." This would be a most satisfactory explanation to the advocates of the theory of evolution, but unfortunately for them. the experiences of one season, though pointing in this direction, can hardly be regarded as conclusive evidence. Meantime who among the readers of The Angler can suggest some simple, unscientific and commonplace explanation of what appears to be an observed and remarkable fact?

• The Nirvana's Trip To Nassau (1886)

"The schooner yacht Nirvana, of New-York, Kenner [sic] master, belonging to Gen. H.W. Perkins, arrived here on the 30th ult., all hands well, after a very stormy and eventful voyage."

See also

• Portal:Caleb Kinner, his father
• Portal:George Washington Kinner, his son