The West Augusta Guard

Mr. Kinney was born in the brick building now occupied by the Staunton Gas Company, corner Main and Market streets, the son of Nicholas C. Kinney and Mary Ann Ambler Fisher, December 31, 1837. He had a classical education, having studied at the University of Virginia, and having added to it by reading and study through the greater part of his life.



When a young man Mr. Kinney spent some time in the adventurous life of the southwest on the plains. When the civil war broke out, he was back in the east, and was teaching at Beaufort, S. C., in a college. Having come to Staunton on business a few days before the West Augusta Guard was called to Harper's Ferry, though not a member of the command, he fell in and went with it to Harper's Ferry and remained with it during the exciting episodes of its first months in active service. He then joined the Staunton Artillery with which he saw hard service, being finally transferred to service in the treasury department.



For many years before and up to his death, Mr. Kinney had been a master commissioner in chancery and confederacy. He was a member of Stonewall Jackson's camp of this city. Librarian of the court of appeals, which position he filled with signal ability and credit, having been brought up himself to the law.

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