Kinney and Murphy Families papers

KEY PERSONS REPRESENTED IN THE KINNEY-MURPHY PAPERS

WBK = William B. Kinney (1799-1880), father of Thomas Tallmadge Kinney; founded the Newark Daily Advertiser in 1832; married twice, firstly to Mary Chandler (d. 1841) and secondly to Elizabeth Clementine (Dodge) Stedman (1810-1889), a poet and journalist; served in Turin as U.S. Minister to Sardinia, 1850 to 1853; remained abroad, chiefly at Florence, from 1853 to 1865 before returning to the U.S.; lived in New Jersey from 1866.

TTK = Thomas Tallmadge Kinney (1821-1900), son of William B. Kinney (1799-1880) and his first wife; father of WBK. An 1841 graduate of Princeton who was admitted to the bar but never practiced, he was the proprietor of the Newark Daily Advertiser, a newspaper that had been founded by his father. He also held substantial financial and property investments (the latter focused on the southeast corner of Broad and Market streets in Newark). At various times he was a member of the East Jersey Proprietors, the New Jersey Historical Society and the Society of the Cincinnati, in addition to being a founder of the Associated Press and of the Fidelity Trust Company. He also served on the boards of several statewide governmental and private organizations. His extensive art collection was housed at his home in Newark; his summer house was located in Elberon.

ECK = Estelle (Condit) Kinney (d. 1907), daughter of Joel W. Condit; married Thomas T. Kinney (1821-1900) in 1863; sister-in-law of William Croswell Doane (Episcopal Bishop at Albany).

WBK = William B. Kinney (1871-1925), son of Thomas Tallmadge Kinney and Estelle (Condit) Kinney; member of the Princeton class of 1894; lawyer (in partnership with Edward D. Duffield, 1896-1901, as Duffield & Kinney); briefly assumed control of the Newark Daily Advertiser, the newspaper founded by his grandfather, in 1903 (June through mid-July); bank director; officer of the Kinney Realty Company, formed to manage family property; removed from 1021 Broad Street to 1062 Broad Street (his parents’ former residence) in April 1910 and lived there until 1916; maintained a summer home in Oakhurst, Ocean Township, Monmouth County, for some years; removed to a property known as “Distant Shore” in Red Bank about 1916.

HMK = Helen (Murphy) Kinney (b. 1877), daughter of Franklin Murphy; married William B. Kinney (1871-1925) in 1901; mother of Janet Kinney (b. 1902), Mai Kinney (b. 1903), Constance Kinney (b. 1905) and Margaret Kinney (b. 1909).

WM = William Murphy (1795-1845), father of William Hayes Murphy. He was in the “Boot and Shoe Manufacturing business” in Newark for “about twenty years” and also engaged in the buying and selling of real estate.

SLM = Sarah (Lyon) Murphy (d. 1821), first spouse of William Murphy and mother of William Hayes Murphy.

WHM = William Hayes Murphy (1821-1905), son of William Murphy, conducted a shoe store in Jersey City and Newark before joining his son's Newark varnish company. A religious man, he was active in the Centenary Fund and Preachers Aid Society of the Newark Methodist Conference and in the Sons of the American Revolution.

FM = Franklin Murphy (1846-1920), son of William H. Murphy. Civil War soldier; governor of New Jersey, 1902 to 1905; Secretary General of the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution. He engaged in the varnish manufacturing business in Newark. ETC.

JCM = Janet (Colwell) Murphy (1842-1904); married Franklin Murphy in 1868.

FM (Jr.) = Franklin Murphy, Jr. (1873-1932?), son of Franklin Murphy (1846-1920); was graduated from Princeton in 1895. Associated with the Murphy Varnish Company, he became its president in 1915.