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Subject: [IAHENRY] Henry Co. Bio-Albert Kinkead
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:36:34 EST

>From Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County,Iowa, Acme Publishing,
Chicago, 1888.

Page 494:

ALBERT WASHINGTON KINKEAD, County Attorney for Henry County,Iowa, and a
resident of Mt. Pleasant, was born at Homer, Licking Co., Ohio,Feb. 22, 1853, and
is the son of Robert and Jerusha (Smith) Kinkead. His father, who was of
Scotch-Irish descent,was also a native of Ohio, and was born in Muskingum County
Feb. 25, 1817, now a resident of Sharon, Iowa. His mother was a native of
Ireland and emigrated to America with her parents in childhood. Her death occurred
during the youth of our subject. Albert W.received his primary education in
the public schools, and in the spring of 1870 came to Mt. Pleasant and became
a student of Prof. Howe’s Academy. After completing his studies in that
institution, he entered upon the study of law in the office of Messrs. Henry and
Richard Ambler, of Mt. Pleasant, beginning in the spring of 1875. He was
admitted to practice in August, 1877,in the local courts, and to the Supreme Court
in 1881.



In the fall of 1879 he formed a law partnership with Mr.C.B. Whitford, at Mt.
Pleasant, under the firm name of “Kinkead &Whitford”, which connection
continued four years. Since the expiration of that time Mr. Kinkead has been alone
in practice. Mr. Kinkead is a Republicanin politics, and was elected City
Solicitor in 1879, which office he held two years. In the fall of 1886 he was
elected County Attorney for Henry County, being the first to hold that office
in the history of the county, the district system having previously been in
force.

Mr. Kinkead is a lawyer of superior ability and fine legal attainments, and
during the eleven years that he has been connected with the Henry County bar he
has won the confidence of the community and respect of his brethren of the
legal profession.

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