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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Alfred Coleman Kinney
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Alfred Coleman Kinney
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| LAST NAME: Kinney
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FIRST NAME: Alfred
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MIDDLE NAME: Coleman
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| TITLE: Dr.
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| BORN: 31 Jan 1850
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DIED: 12 Jul 1943
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BURIED: 12 Jul 1943
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OCCUPATION: Physician
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| BIRTH PLACE: W. Chehalem, Yamhill, Oregon
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| DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
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OSBH DC (Multnomah County 1943) #2916 - Dr. Alfred Kinney, male, married (Louisa P.), occupation doctor of dentistry [?], b. 30 Jan 1850 in Yamhill, Oregon, d. 12 Jul 1943 in Portland, Oregon (St. Vincent's Hospital) at the age of 92 y's 5 m's 12 d's, usual residence Cornelius Hotel in Portland, name of father Robert C. Kinney (b. St. Clair Co., Illinois), name of mother Eliza (b. Nova Scotia, Canada), interment 15 Jul at Pioneer, undertaker J. P. Finley & Son, informant Gilbert W. Kinney of Ilwaco, Wn.
1860 OR CENSUS - Alfred Kinney, age 11, b. Oregon, is enumerated with R.C. Kinney, age 47, occupation farmer, b. Illinois, along with Albert, age 17, b. Iowa, Augustus, age 15, b. Oregon, Marshall, age 13, b. Oregon, Josephine, age 8, b. Oregon, William, age 5, b. Oregon, and Eliza, age 2, b. Oregon.
1920 CENSUS - Alfred Kinney, age 69, occupation physician, b. Oregon, is enumerated with wife Louisa P., age 66, b. Washington.
BIOGRAPHICAL (source - Hodgkin, p. 82-3):
Alfred Kinney, M. D. of Salem, is one of those jovial, good-natured men that we are always glad to meet. He is active and energetic, and what he does he does with a will, and infuses humor and good nature into all with whom he comes in contact. He is an Oregon boy, and made his debut on this world’s stage in Yamhill county, near the town of West Chehalem, on the 31st day of January, 1850, and when ten years of age moved with his parents into the town of McMinnville, where he attended school until he was eighteen years of age, working meanwhile in his father’s flouring mill and mastering the miller’s trade. At an early age he displayed a fondness for the medical profession and in 1868 he went east and entered the Bellevue Medical College in New York City, being at the same time a private student under Dr. Lewis A. Sayre, who is undoubtedly as find a surgeon as America can boast of. After attending two courses of lectures, he applied for a position in the Charity Hospital on Blackwell’s Island, and ranked first in the class at the special examination, only six of about one hundred applicants passing successfully. He was at once appointed first surgeon and remained there about two years and a half, the average number of patients meanwhile being over 1000. At the end of his term of service he was presented by the Board of commissioners of Public Charities and Corrections with an elegant case of surgical instruments as a recognition of his skillfull attention, which testimonial he still keeps and highly prizes. He graduated with high honors and received his diploma in 19872, returning to Oregon in the fall of the same year and locating at Portland, and at once entered into a lucrative practice. Desiring a change, however, he went to Umatilla county in 1878 and entered the stock business. He moved to Salem in 1880 and resumed his practice, which he is still following with marked success. He has devoted himself especially to the study and practice of surgery, and has since his return to Oregon, performed some operations that are indeed astonishing in their nature, and bid fair to add a still greater amount of knowledge to the store now possessed on that wonderful branch of medical science. His skill and intelligence is conceded and honored by the profession. Sincerity of purpose and largeness of sympathy for the sufferings of the unfortunate, beam forth in every feature on his visits to the sick room. During his residence in Oregon he has performed upwards of sixty successful amputations, and has three times successfully performed the intricate operation of tying the subclavian artery. Dr. Kinner has never but once aspired to political honors. At the last general election he was one of the Democratic nominees for State Senator in Marion county, and, although the county usually gives a Republican majority of from 500 to 700, Dr. Kinney’s popularity was so universal that he was beaten by but seven votes. His canvass of the county was a "still hunt" that his opponents will long remember, but his political ambition is satisfied, and surgery and the practice of medicine will attract his entire attention hereafter. He was married in Portland January 28, 1874, to Miss Louisa P. Dickinson, and one child has thus far blessed their union. He is a well-built man, slightly rotund, with pleasant facial expression, and a keen, penetrating eye, with nerves as steady as clockwork.
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DR. KINNEY SUCCUMBS IN PORTLAND PORTLAND, Ore., July 12 - (AP)
Dr. Alfred C. Kinney, 93, known as the "grand old man of Oregon medicine," died here Monday. Kinney was credited with stamping out typhoid fever in Oregon. He organized the Oregon State Medical society and was its first president in 1875. Four times he was a member of the state board of health. He also was instrumental in establishment of the first hospital in Portland and of the state asylum for the insane at Salem. Kinney, who also once was mayor of Astoria, obtained his first medical training to be of service to cattlemen in the early days.
Oregon Statesman 13 July 1943 2:6
Death Takes Pioneer Oregon Physician
Dr. Alfred C. Kinney’s Career at End
Dr. Alfred Coleman Kinney, 93, much-honored early day Oregon physician and public health worker, died Monday in St. Vincent’s hospital. He had been ill since suffering an apopletic stroke Christmas day. Dr. Kinney, in a long life devoted to improving the health and welfare of his fellow men, was founder and first president of the Oregon State Medical society in 1872: in 1925, still active in medicine, he was elected again as 50th president of the society. Dr. Kinney himself, in recent years, declared that his main motive in organizing the medical society was to be able to bring pressure on the legislature for creation of a state board of health in order to have an effective agency to enforce sanitary precautions and bring the scourge of typhoid fever under control. In that order, he accomplished his purposes. Public health authorities regarded him as the one man chiefly responsible for ridding Oregon of typhoid. Often he traveled on horseback all day and all night to reach a patient and then used a kitchen table for a job of major surgery, with one frightened relative or neighbor holding a kerosene lamp and another administering the chloroform, if any was available. Dr. Kinney was instrumental in persuading the Catholic church to establish the first hospital in Portland - St. Vincent’s - and also in inducing the state legislature to authorize an asylum for the insane. In something more than 50 years of residence in Astoria, Dr. Kinney headed the campaign for an adequate ship channel in the Columbia river and also served one term - from 1894 to 1896 - as mayor of Astoria. Linfield college gave him an honorary degree of doctor of laws in 1938. For several years, with his sight failing, Dr. Kinney had been living in quiet retirement in the Cornelius hotel in Portland. Born in Yamhill county January 30, 1850, Dr. Kinney attended the Baptist school at McMinnville, now Linfield college, and studied medicine at Bellevue hospital in New York. He started his professional career in Portland in 1872. He practiced in the Willamette valley, with headquarters at Salem, from 1880 to 1885, the moved to Astoria.
Oregonian 13 July 1943 1:2-4
July 12, Dr. Alfred C. Kinney, late of Cornelius hotel, father of Dr. Albert William Kinney, Ilwaco, Wash.; grandfather of Mrs. Margaret Kinney Meserve, Portland; Maurice B. Kenney, Portland; Harold B., Salem; one great grandchild. Funeral services will be held Thursday, 10 am. Finley’s Morninglight Chapel, SW Montgomery at 4th. Graveside services 3 p.m. at Pioneer cemetery, Clatsop Plains. Friends invited.
Oregonian 14 July 1943 14:3
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INSCRIPTION:
Dr. Alfred Kinney
1850 - 1943
(west side of monument shared with Harriet Kinney, and Elias James Walker Kosmopoulos)
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OSBH DC (Multnomah County 1943) #2916
Hodgkin p. 82-3
1860 OR CENSUS (Yamhill CO., Chehalem, FA #3203)
1920 OR CENSUS (Clatsop Co., Astoria, ED 63, sheet 15A)
Saucy
OS 13 Jul 1943 2:6
Oregonian 13 Jul 1943 1:2-4
Oregonian 14 Jul 1943 14:3
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LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.171'
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LATITUDE: W 123° 02.898'
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