Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Kinkead, Maxwell ???? - December 19, 1841
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

MAXWELL KINKEAD
David Kinkead, the father of Maxwell Kinkead, emigrated from County Tyrone,
Ireland, and settled in Wilmington, in the State of Delaware, in the year
1777.  The revolutionary war being then in progress, he enlisted as a
volunteer in the American army, and was engaged in the battle of Brandywine
and other battles that were fought in Delaware.  At a battle that was fought
near the head of the Elk river, his family was so near the battle ground,
that he asked for and obtained a furlough to remove them out of danger.
      At this time Maxwell was about eight years of age, and he has been
heard to tell of the removal; that the team took them as far as they could go
in daylight, and landed them in an old blacksmith shop, where they broke off
and made beds of the twigs and leaves of trees, and remained there until the
time they could get a more comfortable place.  The furlough was only for
twenty-four hours, and he was back at his post in the army before his
furlough expired.
      After the revolutionary war was over, he removed his family to a place
on Chickie's creek, between Columbia and Mount Joy, in Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, known as Sharrar's Mill, where the old folks died, and are
buried at Donegal church, near Mount Joy.  The family then consisted of five
sons and one daughter, of whom Maxwell, the subject of this sketch, removed
to Petersburg, in Huntingdon county, about the year 1800, where he engaged in
tavern and store keeping, and was married, March 12, 1805, to Deborah
Cadwallader, at Birmingham, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania.  Mrs. Kinkead
was a sister of John Cadwallader, who was after that time a very prominent
member of the bar in Huntingdon, having practiced law there for several
years, and died there.
      In the year 1812, he bought the Yellow Springs property, in Morris
township (now Catharine township, Blair county), and removed there in March,
1813, from Petersburg.  He was there engaged in farming and tavern keeping,
and for some time also in store keeping, and lived at that place until
December 19, 1841, when he died, in his seventy-second year.
      At the time of his death his family consisted of two sons and three
daughters, his oldest son, David, having died some years previously.
      His son, Charles Edwin, represented the counties of Huntingdon and
Blair in the legislature of 1849 and 1850, and removed to Iowa in 1851, where
he died, September 28, 1878.  His eldest daughter, Maria, was married to
William Walker, of Petersburg, and removed to Iowa, where they are still
living at an advanced age.
      His second daughter, Eliza, was married to John Lytle, of
Hollidaysburg, and died in the year 1852.  His son, James Madison, bought the
homestead, the property at the Yellow springs, after the death of his father,
and lived there until the year 1863.  He then sold the property to James H.
Patterson, and removed to Hollidaysburg, where he now resides.  His youngest
daughter and child, Martha Ann, was married to John Walker, of Newry, Blair
county, and removed to Iowa some years since, where her husband died.  She is
still living in Iowa.
      The parents of Maxwell Kinkead being of Scotch-Irish descent, they were
of the Presbyterian faith, of which church he became a member, and was for
many years a ruling elder in the church at Williamsburg, Blair county, and
being a man of strict integrity and most exemplary conduct, he was allowed to
do what would not be countenanced now, that is, to sell spirituous liquors and
be an elder in the church at the same time.  At his death he enjoyed the love,
esteem and respect of all who knew him, and left his property, unencumbered by
debt, to his children, and believing that the law made the best will, he did
not make any.

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