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George Blackburn Kinkead September 25, 1811 - February unknown Woodford County KyArchives Biography

Author: The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky, J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878

Hon. George Blackburn Kinkead, Lawyer, son of John and Margaret T. Kinkead, was 
born September 25, 1811 in Woodford County, Kentucky. His father was a native 
of Augusta County, Virginia; was a farmer by pursuit; was brought to Kentucky 
in 1789 by his father, William Kinkead, who was a captain in the Revolutionary 
army and whose wife, Eleanor Guy, was captured in Virginia by the Indians, in 
1764, carried to Ohio and kept a prisoner near Chillicothe for many months. His 
mother was a native of Woodford County, Kentucky, and daughter of George 
Blackburn, one of the early Virginian farmers of that county. George B. Kinkead 
graduated at Transylvania University as second of his class in 1830; in the 
same year began reading law at Lexington under Judge Daniel Mayes of the law department of Transylvania University; subsequently, continued his legal studies under the direction of Judge Boyle; in the fall of 1833 entered into the practice of his profession at Paris, forming an association with Hon. Garrett Davis, which continued until 1837; from 1837 to 1845, resided at Versailles; and in the latter year, located at Lexington where he has since continued actively engaged in his profession. He was appointed Commonwealth's Attorney in 1838 by Gov. James Clarke for the Frankfort district; served four years and was appointed Secretary of State under Gov. Wm. Owsley, serving in that position in 1847. He is a Democrat in politics; cast his first vote for Henry Clay and was connected with the Whigs until the dissolution of their party. He was strongly opposed to secession in any form and was one of the leading Kentucky lawyers who adhered to the Government during the first years of the war, and although finally ceasing to act with the Administration party, he did not, in any respect, favor the Confederate cause. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church; is a man of fine personal and social habits, of splendid attainments and stands among the leading lawyers of the State. Mr. Kinkead was married in 1846 to Eliza Pearce of Louisville, daughter of James Pearce, a Virginian, resident of that city. Her mother was a niece of Gen. George Rogers Clark, an officer in the Revolutionary army who came to Kentucky soon after the close of the war for independence.


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