History of Brookside, (Morris County) New Jersey United States of America

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Abbot Kinney, author, was born at Brookside, N.J., Nov. 16, 1850; son of Franklin Sherwood and Mary (Cogswell) Kinney; grandson of Dr. Perley and Elizabeth (Sherwood) Kinney and of the Rev. Jonathan and Mary (Abbot) Cogswell; and a descendant of Joseph Kinne, who came to Rhode Island in 1646. Abbot Kinney engaged in fruit farming in California. He was chairman of the California state board of forestry; special commissioner, with Helen Hunt Jackson, to the Mission Indians; an officer in Egypt on the U.S. geological survey in 1873, and major in the California national guards, 1883. He was made chairman of the state commission to manage the Yosemite valley in 1897; president of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 1898 and 1899; president of the Southern California Pomological society and vice-president of the American Forestry association of California; president of the Southern California Forest and Water society; a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and proprietor and editor of the Saturday Post, Los Angeles, Cal. He was married, Nov. 18, 1884, to Margaret, daughter of James Dabney Thornton, justice of the supreme court of California. He is the author of: Conquest of Death (1893); Tasks by Twilight (1893); Eucalyptus (1895); Forest and Water (1900), and pamphlets on forestry and political economy.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Brookside, (Morris County) New Jersey

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