Dr. Robert Maxwell Irwin Kinnear

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The Kinnears and Their Kin: A Memorial Volume of History, Biography, and Genealogy, with Revolutionary and Civil and Spanish War Records; Including Manuscript of Rev. David Kinnear (1840).
By Emma Siggins White, Martha Humphreys Maltby
Published by Tiernan-Dart printing co., 1916
Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
Digitized Jan 17, 2008
578 pages

1900-1910 La Crosse, La Crosse, WI
Robert Kinnear b. July 1860 Canada Eng; m 1886; emig 1886 [physician/surgeon]
Nellie Kinnear b. May 1862 Canada Eng; m. 1886; ch:4/3
Anna V. b. June 1887 IL
Laura E. b. Dec 1892 WI
Kenneth b. May 1898 WI
Minnie Whittenberg b. Apr 1873 MN

1920 La Crosse, La Crosse, WI
Robert Kinnear59
Mellie S Kinnear57
Kenneth Kinnear21
Mery Newlian24
Anna M Herzberg24

1930 La Crosse, La Crosse, WI
Robert T Kinnear69
Margaret V Kinnear38
James L Kinnear6
Frieda E Veglehn18
Robert Lewis29

1940 -La Crosse, La Crosse, WI
Robert M KinnearHeadM79Canada
Margaret KinnearWifeF47Illinois
James KinnearSonM16Wisconsin
Adeline HolbergMaidF25Wisconsin

http://www.footstepsoflacrosse.org/pdfs/Tenth%20and%20Cass%20tour.pdf
Site 11: Robert Kinnear House
220-222 10th St. South
Built in 1914
This two-story brick Prairie Style residence was designed to fit a narrow lot with the main entrance placed to the rear on the north side. The Roman brick façade is highlighted by a compressed stucco second story with bands of double hung windows. The intersecting low pitch hip roofs with exaggerated overhanging eaves are typical of the Prairie Style which still looks "modern" nearly one hundred years later. The contrasting vertical and horizontal mixture of broad flat chimney, brick piers and recessed bays displays a geometric complexity that is the hallmark of the Prairie School. The louvered windows in the two-story front porch are not original.
This residence was built for Dr. Robert and Nellie Kinnear to replace a home on this site that was destroyed by fire in 1914. Dr. Kinnear, a native of Canada, was trained as a physician in Boston and later at the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College. After completing medical school he began his homeopathic medical practice in La Crosse in 1890. He was considered a leading doctor of homeopathy and was also reportedly interested in providing medical and housing assistance to unwed mothers. The two-story residence has an upper level with an identical but less spacious floor plan, indicating that possibly the building was designed as a duplex. In 1916 a smaller two-story American Foursquare style residence was built just to the south and to the rear of the Kinnear House. The houses were divided into two separate parcels in the mid-20th century. The architect of the Kinnear House is unknown.

Robert married Nellie Grace Straw, daughter of Corporal William Henry Straw and Carolyn S. Lighton Thorne, on 9 Jun 1886 in Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada. (Nellie Grace Straw was born on 17 May 1862 in Hill, Merrimack County, New Hampshire and died on 21 Dec 1928 in LaCrosse, LaCrosse County, Wisconsin.)