Clay Co., KS AHGP-Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties-Thomas W. Kincaid
Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington, Clay and Riley Counties Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1890
THOMAS W. KINCAID The business interests of Clay County, and more especially those of the rural districts, would not be well represented were no mention made of him whose name heads this notice. He is both farmer and blacksmith, his home being situated in Bloom Township, on section 36, where he owns a fertile farm of 160 acres. This estate was purchased by the present owner in May, 1881, and is being improved and brought to a high state of productiveness. Mr. Kincaid had previously been a resident of Lincoln Township, Washington County, where he had homesteaded a quarter-section of Government land in 1873, and engaged in the practice of both his employments. To this State Mr. Kincaid had come from his birthplace near West Union, Adams Co., Ohio, he having first seen the light May 5, 1833.
The grandfather of our subject was John Kincaid, a native of Virginia, and of Scotch-Irish parentage. He was reared in his native State, and there learned the manufacture of sickles, bells and other implements known to mechanics. After his marriage he moved to Ohio, becoming a settler of Adams County while that section was all unbroken. There he established a shop and improved a farm, which he made his home until he died ripe in years. Thomas Kincaid, his son, was born and reared in that county, and there followed his occupation of farming. His death took place when he had reached the age of fifty-two years. He had been twice married, his first wife being Miss Elizabeth McClanehan, wbo was born in Ireland, and when young was brought to America by her parents, who located in Adams County, Ohio, where she and they died. She was in middle life when called from earth, and had borne seven children, our subject being the youngest but one, and three years old when his mother died. The second wife of Mr. Thomas Kincaid was Nancy McClanehan. a second cousin of the former helpmate. She was born in Ohio of Irish parents, and now lives on the old homestead, having reached the advanced age of eighty-six years. Thomas Kincaid and both his wives belonged to the Presbyterian Church (old school).
T. W. Kincaid, of whom we write, received his early training from his father and step-mother, and learned his trade chiefly under Thomas Dickinson, afterward opening a shop of his own and since doing business on his own account. He was united in marriage in his native county, with Miss Nancy McCormick, an estimable lady of that county, whose parents were American born and of Scotch-Irish descent. Mrs. Kincaid died in the Buckeye State in the prime of life, leaving three children, one of whom, Martha A., is now deceased; Samuel W. is living in Ottawa County, practicing his profession of dentistry; Mary is the wife of John Miller, a railroad man, whose home is in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Mr. Kincaid contracted a second alliance, the bride being Miss Martha McCreight, who was born in Adams County, Ohio, April 10, 1836, and is a daughter of William and Mary (McCreight) McCreight. Mrs. Kincaid's parents were natives of the same county as their daughter, and lived and died near where they were born, the father being seventy-three years old when he departed this life, and the mother but forty-three. Both were members of the United Presbyterian Church. The grandparents of Mrs. Kincaid had removed to the Buckeye State from North Carolina, and were early settlers of Adams County, seeing much of the horror of the frontier life, some of their neighbors being tomahawked by the savages. The grandfather was a soldier of the War of 1812, as was also the grandfather of our subject. His uncle, Gen. John McClanehan, was killed at Ft. Donelson; his widow is living at Monmouth, Ill.
To Mr. Kincaid and his present wife five children have been born: Luella Jane is the wife of G. W. Kuhn, a farmer on section 33, this township, owning 160 acres of tine land there; William Grant, who married S. Anna Cox, lives on a farm in the Indian Territory; John N., Ormand E. and Franklin B. are at home and helping to carry on the farm.
Mr. Kincaid casts his vote with tho Union Labor party. He is President of the Bloom Alliance at Lincoln, Bloom Township, this State, and Chaplain of the County Alliance Society. He and his wife are active members of the United Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Kincaid is Superintendent of the Sunday-school at Idana, where the church edifice of that society is located. The private character and public life of Mr. Kincaid are above reproach, and he is the recipient of hearty respect from his fellow-citizens, his wife sharing with him in their esteem.