The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VIII, 1909Various
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The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VIII, 1909
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American-Irish Historical Society -- Periodicals; Ethnology -- United States -- Periodicals; Irish Americans -- Periodicals
KINSLEY, WILLIAM JOSEPH, son of Thomas and Mary (Hughes) Kinsley; born
Blackstone, Worcester County, Mass., Aug. 27, 1865; educated in public
schools of Worcester County, Mass., and Woonsocket, R. I., and
Providence Bryant & Stratton Business College, and the National
College of Commerce, Philadelphia. From 1885 to 1901 he taught
penmanship, commercial branches, correspondence, commercial law, etc.,
in Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and the Western Normal
College, Shenandoah, Iowa. In 1891 was a partner in the shoe
manufacturing business of H. J. Putnam & Company, Minneapolis, Minn.;
1892–4, Secretary and Treasurer of the Western Normal College,
Lincoln, Neb.; 1894–1901, editor of _Penman’s Art Journal_, New York,
and since 1894 expert in questioned documents—handwriting,
typewriting, ink and paper. He has had 900 cases in 27 states of the
United States, and in Canada, among the more famous being the
Molineaux, Dr. Kennedy and Patrick murder cases in New York, Tucker
murder case in Cambridge, Mass., Hutchinson will case in New Orleans,
Davis will case in San Francisco. In 1895 Mr. Kinsley was President of
the Western Penmen’s Association, a national organization meeting that
year in Chicago; 1897–9, he was President of the New York Commercial
Teachers’ Association. He is a poultry and pigeon fancier and
prominent exhibitor at the leading shows. He is Vice-President of the
International Carneau (Pigeon) Association, and Secretary-Treasurer of
the American Pigmy Pouter (Pigeon) Association. With his wife (nee
Elvira Gertrude Rose) and two children, he lives in a charming home in
Nutley, N. J., a beautiful suburb of New York.
KINSELA, JOHN F., 509 Gorham Street, Lowell, Mass.
KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK, San Francisco, Cal. (Life membership.) Care of
John Mulhern, Twenty-fifth and Hampshire streets, San Francisco.
LAMSON, COL. DANIEL S., Weston, Mass.; Lieutenant-Colonel commanding
Sixteenth Regiment (Mass.), 1861; A. A. G., Norfolk, 1862; served on
staff of General Hooker; is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars,
Sons of the American Revolution, and Military Order of the Loyal
Legion; one of his ancestors landed at Ipswich, Mass., in 1632, and
received a grant of 350 acres; another ancestor, Samuel, of Reading,
Mass., participated in King Philip’s War and had a son in the
expedition of 1711. Another member of the family, Samuel of Weston,
commanded a company at Concord, Mass., April 19, 1775, and was major
and colonel of the Third Middlesex Regiment for many years, dying in
1795.
LANNON, JOSEPH F., of Jos. F. Lannon & Company, general merchandise,
68 Main Street, Susquehanna, Pa.
LAVELLE, JOHN, Inquiry Division, Postoffice, 3148 West Forty-fourth
Street, S. W., Cleveland, O. Vice-President of the Society for Ohio.
LAWLER, JAMES G., manager American Car & Foundry Company, St. Charles,
Mo.
LAWLER, JOHN F., City Sergeant, Norfolk, Va.
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