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


 H. E. KINKADE. Although the period of Mr. Kinkade's residence in Stanislaus county has 
not been of sufficiently long duration to place him among the pioneers of this portion of California, 
nevertheless he has become thoroughly identified with the agricultural interests of this region, 
and is intimately associated with movements tending to promote the welfare of the people, par- 
ticularly the farming class. The ranch which he has occupied since 1895 is situated three miles 
west of Newman and consists of three hundred and twenty acres of tillable land, especially 
adapted to the raising of grain. In addition he owns a quarter section of wheat land on Garcia 
creek, and tills an adjoining grain farm of eight hundred acres, thus giving him altogether the 
control of a large acreage of plow land. 

On the paternal side Mr. Kinkade is of Virginia extraction. From the Old Dominion his grandfather, 
Samuel, removed to Kentucky, and settled upon a plantation in the blue grass region. The father, 
Christopher Ross Kinkade, was born near Lexington, Ky., and in young manhood settled in Wapello 
county, Iowa, where he followed the plasterer's trade at Eddyville. At the outbreak of the Civil war 
his sympathies were in behalf of the Union, and he enlisted in the Thirteenth Iowa Cavalry, in which 
he was commissioned a sergeant. While participating in a skirmish in Tennessee he was killed on the 
battlefield, in 1863. His widow, who survives him and resides at the old homestead, was Armilda 
Nosier, a native of Indiana, her father, Dr. Tames Nosier, having been a physician, first in Indiana and 
later in Iowa. 

In a family consisting of two sons, of whom G. T. is engaged in the oil business at McKittrick, Kern 
county, Cal., H. E. Kinkade was the elder, and was born at Eddyville, Iowa. February 2, 1862. After 
having completed the studies at the public schools of his home town, at eighteen years of age he 
went to Des Moines, where he entered the employ of the United States Express Company. Later he 
was made express messenger on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad between Davenport and 
Council Bluffs, Iowa, a distance of three hundred and twenty-two miles. In 1889 ne resigned that 
position and came to California, where the spring of 1890 found him embarking in agricultural 
pursuits as manager of a farm of fourteen hundred acres. Five years later he left that place and removed 
to the farm he still owns and operates. Since coming west he has met with success in his farming ventures 
and has every reason to be grateful for the influences that led him to become an agriculturist in California. 
Before leaving Eddyville he married Miss Lillie Totman, who was born and reared in that town, her father, 
S. P. Totman, a native of Ohio, having been for a considerable period engaged in farm pursuits in Iowa. 
During the Civil war Mr. Totman served as a member of an Iowa regiment of infantry. In 1891 he re- 
moved from Iowa to the coast country and settled on a farm near Newman, where he remained 
until death. Since then his widow, who was Christine Oldham, a native of Ohio, has made her home with 
her daughter near Newman. In her family there were five children, of whom Mrs. Kinkade was next to the 
youngest. In their religious affiliations Mr. and Mrs. Kinkade are associated with the Cumberland Presbyterian 
Church, and Mr. Kinkade has officiated as a ruling elder in the congregation. The Republican party has always 
received his stanch support, both in local and national elections. Fraternally he holds membership with the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen, Woodmen of the World and Degree of Honor.