Biography

08/29/1784 - 09/11/1859

KINNEY, Simon, a Representative from Bradford and Tioga Counties; born, August 29, 1784 in Sheshequin, Bradford County, Pa.; engaged, lumbering; lawyer (1814-18x); appointed, treasurer, Bradford County (1814-1816); elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1820-1821 term; reelected to the House as a Democrat for the 1821-1822 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1830); elected, delegate, Illinois Constitutional Convention (1847-1848); elected, commissioner, Bureau County, Il. (1849); died, September 11, 1859 in Indiantown Township, Bureau County, Illinois; interred, Mount Bloom Cemetery, Tiskilwa, Bureau County, Illinois.