Simeon Bartlett Kinney (1808 - 1873)

Born 3 Apr 1808 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Ancestors

Husband of Olive (Doane) Kinney — married about 1828 in Argyle, Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died 7 Jun 1873 at age 65 in San Francisco, California

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Biography

According to the obituary of his granddaughter, Julia Etta Hancock, published December 4, 1947, in Coupeville, Washington, in the spring of 1871 he owned a bark called "Onward", which he used to transport his son's family to Coupeville.

From Sea Captains of Whidbey Island by Alice Kellogg Cahail Published 1901 :^[1]

Captain Simeon B. Kinney, master mariner, who sailed from Boston to London, was in the China and East Indies trade in command of a clipper passenger ship. He brought his ship around Cape Horn to San Francisco in 1849. Captain Kinney was the grandfather of Mrs. Julia Kinney Hancock and Mrs. Nell Lovejoy Watson. He was captain of the ship which brought Mr. Greenen and Mr. Thomas Cranney and other settlers to Whidby Island; and supplies with which to stock a Hudson Bay Trading Post store for Captain B. P. Barstow in 1854. The store was in a log cabin on "Barstow’s Point" where "Whid-Isle Inn" now stands. Mr. Thomas Cranney had the first store in Penn’s Cove. Captain Kinney took his daughter, Marie, with him on a trip around the world. Her diary relating her experiences is still preserved. She was entertained on many British and American warships. In China she met the missionary brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe. He was holding meetings in a houseboat. A picture of Mrs. Stowe was conspicious on the wall. Miss Kinney sang and took part in the church services. After Captain Simeon B. Kinney gave up making voyages to foreign ports, he sailed between San Francisco and Puget Sound ports for many years. After that he was harbor master of San Francisco until his death.

From: The Doane family: 1. Deacon John Doane, of Plymouth, 2. Doctor John Done, of Maryland, and their descendants. With notes upon English families of the same name. By Alfred Alder Doane^[2]

OLIVE 7 DOANE(Israel, 6 Israel, 5 Edmund, 4 Israel, 3 Daniel, 2 John 1 ) was born at Argyle, N. S., Oct. 5, 1806 and died of a fever at Charlestown, Mass., Oct. 12, 1851. Rev. Phineas Stowe of the Baptist Bethel, Boston, conducted the funeral services. Her remains were placed at first in a tomb in the old Copps Hill Burial Ground, but in the following May were interred in the Bethel Lot, on Ever- green Ave., Woodlawn Cemetery, Chelsea, Mass. Her grave is on the left side of the lot near the curb-stone and sixteen feet from the front corner. She married at Yarmouth, N. S., Simeon Bartlett Kinney who was born at Yarmouth in 1808 and died in San Francisco, Cal., June 7, 1873 (gravestone, Masonic cemetery, San Francisco) , the son of Thomas and Lydia (Bartlett) Kinney, and grandson of Nathan Kinney of Chatham, Mass., Barrington and Little River, N. S. His mother, Lydia Bartlett, born Oct. 10, 1779, was descended from Robert Bartlett of the Ann and from Richard Warren and Ed- ward Doty of the Mayflower company. After marriage, Simeon B. and Olive Kinney settled on his father's homestead at Little River, where their two eldest children were born. About 1832, he moved with his family from Little River to St. John, N. B., from which port he sailed in command of large vessels for many years, his wife often accompanying him on foreign voyages. About 1850, Captain Kinney sailed from St. John for San Francisco, his family removing soon after to Charlestown, Mass., and one year after their mother's death the children joined their father in California.

" Capt. Simeon B. Kinney, one of the early pioneers of California died at his residence on Post street this city, on Sunday morning, June 7 th in the 67 th year of his age. Capt. Kinney was widely and favorably known as one of the oldest and ablest shipmasters of this coast. He was born at Yarmouth, N. S., in the year 1808, and arrived at this port in command of the bark Duke of Wellington, from St. John, N. B., in 1850, from which time to the present his name has been identified with the merchant marine of San Francisco, he having been almost constantly and veiy successfully engaged in coasting and in the China and East India trade from this port. In addition to an unusually large number of old and warm friends, to whom he was endeared by years of association, he leaves to mourn their loss, six sons and daughters, more than twenty grandchildren and a number of great grandchildren, all of them residents of this coast and nearly all of these three generations of descendants present to comfort the last hours of one who, during a long and active struggle with the cares and trials of this life, never once failed in his duty as a man, and who died with a christian's resignation and with a full and well founded hope of a christian's life here- after."— Obituary, San Francisco paper.

Children, first two bom at Little River, the others at St. John, N. B. :

i Thomas, 8 b. July 11, 1829; m. in Boston, Mass., Mar. 20, 1857, by Rev. Phineas Stowe, Elizabeth Houghton of Halls Har- bor, N. S., who d. at Coupeville, Washington, where they resided.

ii Olive Jane, 8 b. June 9, 1831; m. at St. John, 1818, John McKinnon, b. at St. John, Aug. 1, 1820, s. of Archibald Randall and Mary (Snyder) McKinnon of Argyle, N. S. They res. at Sonoma, Cal.

iii Robert Sevieon, 8 b. 1833; d. at St. John in 1838.

iv Frances R., 8 b. Sept. 11, 1835; m. at San Francisco, in 1852, James N. Thane of St. John, who died. Widow res. Victoria, B. C.

v Calista Anna Lakeman, 8 b. Sept. 11, 1837; m. 1st, at San Francisco, 1855, Capt. Howard B. Lovejoy of Maine, who d. at Coupeville, 1872; m. 2nd, 1881, John A. Leach, who d. at Coupeville, 1889, a native of Taunton, Mass. Widow res. at Coupeville.

vi Almira Antoinette, 8 b. Dec. 19, 1839; m. in San Francisco,

185G, Thomas W. Hackett, who died ; a native of

Boston, Mass. Widow res. San Francisco.

vii Robert Simeon, 8 b. Dec. 21, 1841; d. at Oakland, Cal., 1880; m. in San Francisco, 1869, Eliza Smith; widow res. San Gatos, Cal.

viii Susie Hammond, 8 b. 1843 ; d. at St. John, 1846.

From Lewis and Dryden's Marine History of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated History, by E.W. Wright^[3]
"Capt. Simeon B. Kinney, who sailed between San Francisco and Puget Sound ports in 1854 on the bark Burnham, was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, in 1809, entered the West Indian trade when a boy, and, after sailing all over the world, arrived in San Francisco in 1852 in the bark Duke of Wellington. Two years later he went to the Sound in the Burnham, followed the coasting trade a while and then went into the foreign service again, returning in 1868 as master of the bark Onward, in the Puget Sound traffic. In 1870 he left the vessel to engage in the stevedoring business in San Francisco, where he remained until his death in 1873."

Sources

1. ↑ http://files.usgwarchives.net/wa/island/history/whidcapn.txt
2. ↑ http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/alfred-a-alfred-alder-doane/the-doane-family-1-deacon-john-doane-of-plymouth-2-doctor-john-done-of-mar-nao/page-38-the-doane-family-1-deacon-john-doane-of-plymouth-2-doctor-john-done-of-mar-nao.shtml
3. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=seRDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA219&lpg=PA219&dq=Captain+Thomas+Kinney+nova+scotia&source=bl&ots=OxyLXDiIfb&sig=4P8O52OajqqQuJdI852IVJzdk_I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiq64XGwM3SAhXkxYMKHTfgBA8Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=Captain%20Thomas%20Kinney%20nova%20scotia&f=false

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