California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


ANDREW KINKADE. In the vicinity of Visalia, Tulare county, is located the ranch of one 
hundred and sixty acres which was originally entered by Andrew Kinkade, one of the early 
pioneers of this section. He was born in Missouri September 20, 1824, and in his native 
state grew to manhood and married in 1848. Attracted to the west by the manifold opportunities 
held out to the pioneer, he crossed the plains in 1852 and upon his safe arrival in California 
located in Sacramento and remained about two years, and then in Pacheco valley, near Martinez, 
Contra Costa county, where he engaged as a laborer. He remained in that locality until the 
fall of 1856; then removed to Tulare county and took up a ranch of one hundred and sixty acres 
located four miles southwest of Visalia. Upon this property he engaged in the raising of cat- 
tle, hogs and other stock until his death, which occurred March 28, 1863. He was a successful 
ranchman and a worthy and esteemed citizen, leaving to his family the inheritance of a good 
name and a competence won through a right use of opportunities. 

Mr. Kinkade is survived by his wife, formerly Ellen Allnutt, who was born in Montgomery 
county, Md., near Washington, D. C. Her father, George Allnutt. was also a native of 
Maryland, where he engaged in farming until his removal to Missouri as a pioneer of that 
state. He located in Boone county, where his death occurred. Two sons were born of the 
union of Mr. and Mrs. Kinkade : James Harvey, the eldest, is now located on the home property 
with his mother, and George died in infancy, while crossing the plains. Since her husband's 
death Mrs. Kinkade has entered eighty acres adjoining the original property, and also three 
hundred and twenty acres in the vicinity of Goshen, Tulare county. The entire property is 
given over to a successful stock business and general farming.