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JOHN KINNEY, farmer and stock-raiser, section 8, post-office Sarcoxie. Mr. Kinney is a native of Ohio, was born in Stark county, April 25, 1820, and there reared to manhood. He was married in his native county in June, 1841, to Miss Elizabeth Swieheart, a native of Pennsylvania, who was reared and educated in Stark county, Ohio. In 1844: he moved to Wyandotte county, where he bought and improved a farm upon which he lived six years. In 1850 he went to Holt county, Mo., from there to Taylor county, Iowa, in 1852, where he lived several years; was there during the dark days of the Rebellion. From there he moved to Labette county, Kan., in 1866, where he lived until 1871, when he became a citizen of Jasper county, Mo., and bought the farm on which he now lives, consisting of eighty acres, well improved, with good buildings, orchard, etc. His family consists of five sons and three daughters. Three of his sons served during the war of the Rebellion in an Iowa Volunteer Regiment. Mr. Kinney is a self-made man, commencing without means, and by perseverence, industry, enterprise and energy has accumulated a competency. He now owns 260 acres of good land in this and adjoining counties. Himself and family are consistent members of the Church of Christ; he is a man of sterling worth in the community in which he lives.