Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

ROBERT L. KINMAN. If there is any one thing that Grant County is
especially proud of it is her young men, her own boys, who are every 
day coming to the front, in business, in politics, in the pulpit, and 
the professions; they are now the moving spirits and often blaze the 
way and mark the course for the older fellows to follow.  The Democratic
party in Grant County has been especially kind to its young men.  Robert
Lee Kinman is one of the best types of the coming Grant County young 
men.  He was born in the hills of Stevens Creek, June 30, 1868, and is 
a son of Samuel and Mary Kinman.  He grew up to manhood with little 
opportunity to secure an education, doing the ordinary work that falls 
to the lot of a farmer's son.  He attended the district school and that 
was all.  When he reached his maturity, however, feeling the ambition 
to secure a better education he went to work on a farm by the month to 
get the means whereby he might attend school away from home.  In 1890 
he attended the Normal College at Lebanon, Ohio, and in 1891 returned 
home and accepted a position as clerk in the store of W. P. Kinman at 
Downingsville.  He has followed clerking and bookkeeping since working 
for D. M. Hall at Heekin, and the Blue Grass Grocery Co., at Jonesville.
In 1893 he was elected constable for the Second Magisterial District 
and filled the position for four years to the satisfaction of his
constituents.  Was a candidate for County Court Clerk at the Democratic
primary election in 1897, and came second in a field of seven popular
Grant County Democrats.  He did not pout or make faces, but went to work
and four years later was a candidate again with a big field of the
strongest men in the county against him, and won the nomination easily
by over a hundred votes margin.  His election in November to that 
responsible and lucrative office is a foregone conclusion by an 
increased majority.  On February 26, 1896, he was united in marriage to 
Miss Sallie E. Blackburn, one of the prominent lady teachers of Grant 
County, and a daughter of George W. and Bertha Jackson.  Mr. Kinman is 
a Democrat of the Downingsville variety and that is a passport into any 
Democratic lodge of which we are acquainted.  He is a member of the 
Baptist Church and belongs to the order of Free and Accepted Masons, 
and has filled all of the offices in the blue lodge.  Mr. Kinman is a 
splendid young man, well qualified for the duties of life, with no bad 
habits and the future is rosy indeed from him.

Kinman Blackburn Jackson Hall
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