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Frank Kinnicutt Home
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Mrs. F.C. Kinnicutt's new residence on the hill is now completed. It is a fine building and one of the prettiest in the county.
It is well built and the workmanship is a credit to the contractors, Williams, Steward and Deyoe. [Home is presently listed for sale at $ 175,000]
Source: Myrtle Point Enterprise, October 21, 1904
Frank C. Kinnicutt was a school teacher
who was hired to teach at the Brown School, near the old Twin Oaks School on Broadbent
Road. The story has it that the Brown boys were a discipline problem and Frank
was hired especially to address that situation, which he did successfully. One of his former
students, J.C. McCulloch (former link was http://home.pacifier.com/~frame/d23.htm)
, who said that his teachers Frank (Francis C.) Kinnicutt and William Freeman were plenty free with the use
of the hazel switch. J.C. attended school at Olalla in Douglas County near Tenmile from late 1873 until 1879.
Frank's wife was Hannah and in 1880 they are shown in the living with their daughters Hannah P. and Mary F.
in the Ten Mile precinct. Frank was 38 when the census was taken and Hannah 20. He died in 1903 and is buried in Myrtle Point Cemetery.
Frank C. Kinnicutt served in the Civil War, as a part of the 34th Massachusetts Company.
Source: History of the Forty-Fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; Dept. of 45 No. Carolina, Mass. "The Cadet Regiment"
"In the early 1900s, my father, Eckley Guerin, and his brothers, Waterman and Charles, were surveyors for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, assigned to the Alaska-Canadian border. Dad returned to Myrtle Point, Oregon, in 1912 to marry his hometown sweetheart, Amy Kinnicutt. They, along with their first chid, Renee, came to Juneau in 1915. I was born three years later, followed by my brother, Eckley. "
Source: Wings and a Camera, by Amy Lou Barney for the Anchorage Daily News, May 23, 2004. (Former link from article on Amy Lou Barney, grandaughter of Frank Kinnicutt was http://www.adn.com/life/story/5104033p-5031029c.html)
Frank Kinnicutt, an old and well known resident of Coos, who has been living at the
Halfway House on the Coos Bay wagon road with his family, committed suicide yesterday
/Monday/ [as in print] by shooting himself in the head.
The deed was committed about 11 A. M. It seems that Kinnicutt had been drinking
heavily the night before, and had not entirely recovered. His daughter left him sitting in the
front room reading a paper. A few moments later a pistol shot was heard, and he was found
lying on the floor unconscious, with a bullet hole just above his temple. The position of the
body suggested that he stood in front of the mirror to place the pistol at his head.
The telegraph line was at once utilized to call a physician, but the man died about 3:30 P.
M., without recovering consciousness.
Kinnicutt has been in Coos for thirty years or more. He was a school teacher, and had
taught in different schools nearly all over the county, also in Douglas. He had been living in
Brewster valley since March 1902. He leaves a family consisting of a wife and two married
daughters, two grown daughters and a son at home, besides two little girls and a boy.
Source: Coast Mail, October 9, 1903
Hannah (Beckwith) Corson , daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Beckwith, formerly of England, was born
near Harrisburg in Linn Co, Oregon, March 16, 1859 and died in Pendleton Hospital in 1924, age 65
years. She married for her first husband, Frank Kinnicut, one of the leading school teachers of Coos county
in his day, and to them was born 8 children, 2 have died: William was killed about 9 years ago and
Beryl who died last year.
They lived in Coquille and Myrtle Point for most of their lives. She married for the second time
a few years ago, Amos Corson. Leaves 6 children: Mrs. Ivy Pike of North Bend; Mrs. Mollie of Santa
Clara; Mrs. Ollie Brown of Baker; Tom Kinnicut and Mrs. Amy Guerin both of Alaska and Mrs. Eugene
Anderson of Wisconsin. After the death of her daughter, Beryl, she lived with her half-sister,
Mrs. Ben Shull and then with her daughter in North Bend. Buried in Myrtle Point cemetery.
Source: Southern Coos County American, June 12, 1924
Thomas Kinnicutt, another son of the Kinnicutts, married Anna Lucille Culver of Curry County in Coquille in 1912.
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