Biographical Sketch of Arlie Ronald Kinkade

Sketch quoted from OUR BOOK: OUR ANCESTORS, OURSELVES, AND OUR CHILDREN by Ben F. Dixon, 1932: page 220.

If you bury yourself in the details of "Our Book", you will appreciate the versatility of our young batchelor [sic] cousin, Arlie Kinkade. He is a printer, photographer, book-lover, musician of the first order--and the genealogist of the Ohio Kinkades. He has been the moving spirit of the Kinkade Association for many years.

In 1927, the author learned just the other day, Arlie had me booked for the Kinkade Reunion. We were on our way home from Washington, D.C. to Missouri and Kansas, prior to setting sail for a three year tour in Haiti. We were traveling on a close schedule. And the old "Tossing Tessie" that carried us over the National Trail, broke down on us the second day in the mountains--and we missed the only opportunity the author has ever had of attending the Kinkade Reunion.

Last year Arlie was on the way to the Reunion, and the suitcase full of family records and historical matter which he was carrying, fell off the baggage carrier of his car. He never recovered it. A mass of valuable data on the family history was thus lost to us.

Not discouraged by his tremendous loss, Arlie started making his notes again. And when the author called for his cooperation in getting the Ohio Kinkades into "Our Book" he lent a hand with a hearty good will. It is entirely due to his efforts that we have so much material on the Ohio descendants of Andrew Kinkade.

Provided by Betty Latta Kitchen

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