Husband William Wallace Kincaid 1
Born: 26 Apr 1868 - Wayne Twp, Erie Co, PA 1
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Father: Rev. John Smith Kincaide (1846-1897) 2
Mother: Margaretta Onelia Tuttle (1849-Aft 1915) 1
Marriage: 28 May 1894 - Rapids, Niagara Co, NY 3
• Business.
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Wife Clara E. Greenley 3
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Father: Albert Manferd Greenley (1831-1892) 3
Mother: Mary Elizabeth Hunt (1840- ) 4
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1 F Nina G. Kincaid 3
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Spouse: Larue Free Smith ( - ) 3
Marr: 24 Aug 1908 3
General Notes: Husband - William Wallace Kincaid
He was born in Wayne township, Erie County, Pennsylvania. He attended the public school of the town, and later entered the high school at Corry, Pennsylvania, whence he was graduated in the class of 1887. In the fall of 1887 he began teaching school in Wayne township, continuing until the close of schools in 1888. He then became a subscription book canvasser, and until 1896 he was engaged as general agent and publisher, locating in 1889 in Philadelphia. In 1897 he located in Meadville, Pennsylvania, as manager for the Keystone View Company, retiring from his position as sales manager with that firm in January, 1904. In that year he associated with Marcus Merritt Beeman and Jesse Homan Pardee in the formation of a firm for the manufacture of the Spirella corset stay and Spirella corsets, the invention of Mr. Beeman. They organized first March 16, 1904, as a copartnership, but a year later incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania as The Spirella Company, with W. W. Kincaid, president; M. M. Beeman, vice-president and secretary; and J. H. Pardee, treasurer.
Mr. Kincaid was in full sympathy with all progressive movements in public affairs and showed the same interest for the "public good" that he manifested in the promotion of the welfare of his own employes. Beginning in 1906 he served on the school board of Meadville, giving freely of his time and ripened judgment to the raising of a higher standard of education. He was always a Republican, but embraced the progressive movement of 1912 with all the ardor of his nature, as promising relief from conditions he felt were not for the "public good." He was a delegate to the Republican state convention of 1912 and there was elected delegate-at-large to the Republican National convention of that year held in Chicago. He fought with the Pennsylvania delegation for the seating of the progressive delegates from contested districts, and was one of the sixty-four Roosevelt delegates who answered "present and not voting" when the roll was called for the nomination for president. Later he was a delegate and present at the National Progressive Convention, held in Chicago, August 6, 1912, that nominated Theodore Roosevelt for president. Later he was appointed to the committee of five men from Pennsylvania to interview and consult with Colonel Roosevelt regarding the settlement of the controversy relating to electors on the Republican and Washington party tickets in Pennsylvania. He was chairman of, and called to order, the first county convention of the Washington party, held in Crawford County, September 14, 1912. He was a tower of strength to his party in the campaign that followed; was an important factor in carrying Pennsylvania for the Progressive cause and long remained firm in his support of that movement.
From June, 1887, to June, 1890, Mr. Kincaid was a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard, Company A, Sixteenth Regiment. From 1907 until 1910 he was president of the Meadville Chamber of Commerce; was a member of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, also delegate and national councilor to the United States Chamber of Commerce, held in Washington, D. C., January 23, 1913, and again at the annual meeting of that body at Washington in February, 1914. He was elected a member of the board of the Meadville Commercial College, 1913, and was also elected for a number years to the board of trustees of the East Greenwich Academy located at East Greenwich, Rhode Island. While sojourning in England, during the summer of 1913, he was appointed by President Wheeler, of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, in company with Randolph Coolidge, of Boston, as a member to represent that organization on the International Cheque Committee which met in London in May of that year. At the last meeting, he was named as one of the ten delegates to represent the United States Chamber of Commerce at the meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce held at Paris in June, 1914. He was present at that meeting at which the report of the International Check Committee among other reports was unanimously adopted. Mr. Kincaid was a member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris and of the London Cham-ber of Commerce. He was also a member of the Round Table of Meadville and a member of Volunteer Camp No. 57, Sons of Veterans, of Pennsylvania. In religious faith he was a Unitarian, belonging to the Independent Congregational Church of Meadville, Pennsylvania, being a member of its board of trustees, and president of the Unitarian Men's Club, year 1914.
General Notes: Wife - Clara E. Greenley
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