He was the son of William Burnet Kinney, the subject of the preceding biography, was born in Newark, N.J., in 1821. His primary education was received in the old Newark Academy, which stood on the site of the present post-office, corner of Broad and Academy Streets. He continued his classical studies preparatory to a collegiate course under Rev. William R. Weeks, D.D., and was graduated from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1841, under the presidency of the late Dr. Carnahan, and that galaxy of professors, Drs. James W. Alexander, Albert B. Dod and Joseph Henry, all of whom are now dead. His inclinations tending strongly towards natural science, he attracted the attention of Professor Henry, who chose him for an assistant during his senior year, and the intimacy thus formed ripened into a life-long personal friendship. The degree of A.M. was, in due course, conferred upon Mr. Kinney, who, in the mean-time, had entered upon the study of law in the office of Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, now of the United States Supreme Court. In 1844 he was admitted to the bar, but never availed himself of his privileges as an attorney. His father was appointed to a foreign mission in 1851, and the cares and responsibilities of managing his private affairs devolved upon him, and he was thus brought immediately into the field of journalism, to every department of which he devoted himself with unusual industry and enterprise, introducing steam-power, improved machinery, and business methods which have since come into more general use. He was also largely instrumental in inaugurating the system of news-gathering which culminated in the establishment of that comprehensive organization known as the Associated Press. In process of time he became the sole owner of the Newark Daily Advertiser, and is still its proprietor. Although identified with the local financial, industrial and political movements of his time, he has never sought nor accepted a nomination for any political office. The Newark Board of Trade, of which he was one of the projectors, made him its delegate to the convention that organized the National Board of Trade in Philadelphia. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of which he was a corporator, and in which he has always taken a deep interest, chose him as its president several years since, and that office he still holds. He is also a member of the State Board of Geology, as well as of the State Board of Agriculture, and of the latter body was the presiding officer from 1878 to 1882. When the Legislature authorized the conversion of the Soldiers' Children's Home, at Trenton, into an Asylum for Indigent Deaf and Dumb Children of the State, he was appointed a one of the trustees, and is still a manager of that institution. In 1860, Mr. Kinney was a delegate to the Chicago Convention, and labored with great earnestness for the nomination of Abraham Lincoln. Among his local connections, he is a director in several institutions, including the National State Bank, the Newark City Ice Company, the Electric Light and Power Company, the Stevens & Condit Transportation Company, and the Navesink Park Company, near Sandy Hook. He is also a member of the Board of East Jersey Proprietors, a life member of the New Jersey Historical Society and an hereditary member of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey. Notwithstanding his multifarious duties, Mr. Kinney gives the closest attention to the management of the journal over whose interests he has for so many, years presided. He is not only its proprietor, but virtually its editor, scrutinizing everything of importance that appears in its columns, and by his directions, as well by his pen, maintaining the high character which it always possessed while under the control of his distinguished father. The fondness for natural science which he developed while in college has never been lost, but the in-door life of a writer and a student has led him to seek his recreation in music and painting, not as a performer himself, but as a lover and judge of the excellencies of others. To gather about him choice works of art, and to promote its culture in every department, seem now to occupy most delightfully his leisure moments.

buried 12/5/1900.