1820–1909
Major Isaac Kinley served in an Indiana regiment during the Civil War and was the youngest member of the Indiana constitutional convention in 1951. He served in the Indiana State Senate, representing Randolph County, for four years and was very influential on the state’s educational system. He moved west in 1874, first to San Jose and then to Los Angeles, where he revived the Los Angeles Star, a paper representing, in the words of one obituary, “the interests of the Workingmen.” Having never fully recovered from the wounds he suffered during the war, he died in 1909 after a long illness.
