Augustus Kinnersley

Thomas Kinnersley's youngest child was Augustus.

AFK was baptized on 21 Jul 1822 at Trinity Church, New York City, and confirmed on 10 Feb 1839 at St Mark's Church.

1850 Census, Brooklyn, Ward 17, Page 421, Line 17
1860 Census, Brooklyn, Ward 19, ED1, Page 20(50), Line 21
1870 Census, Brooklyn, Ward 19, Roll 959, Page 478 (593)
1900 Census, Brooklyn, Ward 5, ED62, Page 12, Line 49 – 137-153 Hicks Street, Mansion House Hotel

His place of business was listed as "Kinnersley & Johnson, Wood Engravers," 52 John Street, New York City. Augustus and Henry are mentioned in Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers by Sinclair Hamilton, (Princeton University Press, 1968), which is a catalog of books containing wood engravings that are currently held in the Princeton University Library. The History of Wood Engraving in America, by W. J. Linton (Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1882) shows one of his engravings, from The Child's Paper published by the American Tract Society in 1862. Some of his work also appears in American Drawing Book, "A manual for the Amateur and basis of study for the professional Artist," by J. G. Chapman (J. S. Redfield, New York, 1847), (W. J. Widdleton, 1864) and (A.S. Barnes, 1873). His work was exhibited at the National Academy and the American Institute. As mentioned above, Earl Kinnersley had a silver medal awarded to A. F. Kinnersley for wood engraving in 1845 by the American Institute.

Uncle Gus lived in Brooklyn at 84 Broadway, later at 119 Division Street, and later at the Mansion House Hotel. His will was filed in Kings County Surrogate Court, liber 372 p278, 28 Jan 1907.

We have two pictures taken in Brooklyn in the 1860's; one is of a woman of about 80 and marked "To Miss V. Kinnersley from her dear Aunt Lizzie"; the other is a woman of about 60 marked "Gus Kinnersley's sister." I suspect that they somehow came to be mismarked, and the older of the two is really Gus's mother Mary Ann, and the younger is his wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth's death notice appears in the New York Times and also the New York Tribune for 24 Dec 1874. The cause of death was given as "paralysis of the brain." This is probably a reference to what we now call Alzheimer's Disease.