Asa Kinney (May 21, 1810October 3, 1886) was an

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businessman, politician, and

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pioneer. He represented southern Milwaukee County in the

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during the

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and

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legislatures (1848, 1849).

Biography

Born in

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, Kinney moved to

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, in 1836 and settled in Oak Creek where he had a farm. Kinney served in the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention. Then, in 1847–1848, Kinney served in the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives. He served in the first

in 1848-1849 as a

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. He moved to

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to mine in 1852 and was elected as the first member of the

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from Plumas County in 1854, again as a Democrat. Kinney moved back to Wisconsin after the Assembly adjourned (without even going back to Plumas County) and settled in

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. He served on the Ripon Common Council and was street commissioner. He also served as sergeant at arms in the Wisconsin Senate. In 1861, Kinney served as quartermaster in the 4th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment during the

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. He was discharged because of health. He then enlisted in the

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and was commissioned a lieutenant and assigned to quartermaster. He stayed in the regiment until the end of the Civil War. In 1871, Kinney moved with some colonists from Ripon, Wisconsin, to Kansas where they helped plat the community of

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. Kinney served as a local judge in Russell and was in the banking and insurance businesses in Kansas and Wisconsin. Kinney died in Russell, Kansas.City of Russell, Kansas biographies-Asa Kinney
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