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KINNE, Charles Mason (55193)

Birth

  • Born on April 11, 1841 in DeWitt, Onodaga Co., NY

Death

  • Died on December 25, 1913 in Berkeley, Alameda Co., CA
  • Buried in San Francisco National Cemetery in San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA

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  • Obituary: Civil War: "California 100" (Co. A, 2nd Mass. Cavalry); Adjutant General's Corps, U.S. Volunteers Charles Mason Kinne was the son of Mason Prentice and Mary Jane (Spaulding) Kinne. He received his education in the public schools of DeWitt and Syracuse, N.Y. In 1859 he came to California and began his business career as bookkeeper in the Agricultural Implement Foundry, San Francisco. From his home in New York, he took with him to California the first honey bees known to that state. Soon after his arrival, he enlisted in the First California Guard (Light Artillery), California State Militia, and soon made Corporal, First Sergeant and Second Lieutenant of that organization. He resigned his commission to enlist as a private in the "California Hundred," Company A, 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry, at San Francisco, December 10, 1862. He was soon promoted to Sergeant and later First Sergeant. He participated in the first engagement of the command at South Anna Bridge, June 26, 1863, and in July following joined the balance of the regiment at Centreville, where Colonel Charles R. Lowell promoted Kinne from First Sergeant of his company to Sergeant-Major of the regiment. Eleven months later he was promoted 2nd Lieutenant of Company A, and in January, 1864, promoted to 1st lieutenant and Adjutant of the regiment. The 2nd Massachusetts was doing picket duty at the time in front of Washington, D.C. Kinne took part in the fighting against Early's first advance on Washington, and was present in the subsequent operations in the Shenandoah Valley, including the battles of Winchester and Cedar Creek. He was wounded at Waynesboro, Virginia, September 28, 1864. At the close of the Valley campaign, he was commissioned by President Lincoln as Captain, and A. A. G. of Volunteers, being assigned to duty as Adjutant-General of the Regular Brigade of the First Cavalry Division under General Alfred Gibbs, and was with that command through to Five Forks and Appomattox. He was mustered out as Captain July 11, 1865. (His commission papers, signed by Lincoln, identified him as C. Mason Kinne, and from that time forward he insisted that he be so identified and refused to accept anything not so addressed.) He returned to San Francisco in April of 1866 and entered into the fire insurance business, in which he continued until 1912, when he retired. He was a charter member of the first Grand Army Post organized on the Pacific Coast and was Department Commander for two terms. He was a commander and treasurer of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of California; member of the California National Guard, in which he rose to the position of Colonel and Paymaster General on the staff of Governor Perkins. He was a founder of the Veterans' Home in Yountville and became the first president of the Veterans' Home Association. He was married at Vienna, Virginia, April 11, 1864, to Elizabeth D'Arcy, of Boston, Massachusetts. He passed away at his home in Berkeley, December 25, 1913.
  • Historical Information: CHARLES MASON KINNE was born in the State of New York in 1841 and completed a course of studies at the High School at Syracuse. Emigrated to San Francisco in 1858, and joined the 1st California Guard in 1859; served as a private until commissioned 2d lieutenant in 1862; resigned to enlist in the California Hundred, Company A, 2d Massachusetts Cavalry; was promoted to 2d lieutenant of Company A, and to 1st lieutenant and adjutant of his regiment; took part in the campaign on the Peninsula, the battles with Early in his first advance on Washington, and in the subsequent movements in the Shenandoah Valley; was appointed captain and assistant adjutant-general of the Regular Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, serving with it at the White House, at Five Forks, and at Appomattox; was recommended for brevet major; was wounded in one of his ears at Waynesboro, September 28, 1864, and mustered out in July 1865. Comrade Kinne is a member of Lincoln Post, G.A.R., of San Francisco, California, his place of residence, and is a past department commander. (Ward, William H. Records of Members of the Grand Army of the Republic, with a Complete Account of the Twentieth National Encampment. San Francisco, 1886; pp 527-28)
  • Military Service: US Civil War US Army Captain
  • Occupation: Bookkeeper/ Fire Insurance Broker

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  • California Deaths: #36880

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