Albert Burke Kinney (1864-1909), the eldest son of Hiram W. Kinney and Mary Burke, came to Antelope County as a young man with his father and others from Story, Iowa in the fall of 1880. The other members of the family came in 1881. Albert worked on the Northwestern railroad to earn money for farming operations. Among the men who first homesteaded in 1880 were George Edward Clark and his two nephews, Orleans and Edward Adams. In 1883, Orleans went to New York to bring his widowed mother, Ann Elizabeth Clark Adams and five of her children to the Park area. Ann Adams and three daughters, Sarah, 22, Anna, 20, and Edith, 13 and two young brothers, George and Robert, came by train to Oakdale. Sarah later married Lorenzo Stebbins.
In November 1886, Albert B. Kinney and Anna Beecher Adams were married
and made their home west of Elgin. Five children were born to the couple: Edith Olive, Ernest Charles, Mabel Anna, Clarabel and Dorothy
Hazel. Ernest married Alta V Jenkins;
Clarabel married Chester Ellison, and Dorothy married Leslie Jenkins. (From “A Tale of Western Prairies,” by
Edith O Kinney.)
Source Unknown: Originally submitted for this website in July 2007