Newspaper clipping dated November 1910: "DEATH OF KINEON ENDS A LIFE WAR AGAINST TRUSTS"
A lifetime spent in the unsuccessful fighting of corporations ended Thursday night with the death of Solomon Perin Kineon at the home of his sister, Mrs. Kate Kernohan, in Perintown, Clermont-co. Kineon died after a day's illness. Arrangements for his funeral have been delayed pending the arrival of his wife and son from New York.
Once worth a quarter of a million, Kineon died in reduced circumstances. At one time he was Cincinnati's leading coal merchant, and his home in Clifton was one of the finest in Cincinnati.
He fought the Bell Telephone Co, in an effort to get an independent franchise in Cincinnati, and failed. Before the Drake legislative investigating committee he testified that he was offered an independent telephone franchise for a consideration of $59,000 by a prominent Cincinnati politician.
Fortune Lost in Fight. He was driven out of the coal business by a railroad company with which he engaged in legal warfare over an elevator site, and the battle almost wiped out his fortune.
He clashed with corporations again when he sought to buy a water and gas franchise. He lost through adverse legislation put through by more powerful competitors, and what was left of his fortune was thus consumed.
His beautiful home went with the rest, and a few years ago Kineon passed out of the business life of Cincinnati and retired to the home of his sister in Perintown. He occasionally came to Cincinnati, the last time being Wednesday morning.
Kineon leaves a widow and two sons, James Kineon and Dr. George Goodhue Kineon, a physician on the staff of the State Hospital for Epileptics, at Gallipolis. His widow and son, James, are in New York. They have been notified of his death and are expected in Cincinnati for the funeral.
Kineon was 63 years old. He was born in Perintown, where he died. He came to Cincinnati when a boy and obtained employment in the coal firm of Buchanan and Adams, in which his uncle, the late Oliver Perin was interested.
In 1881 Kineon bought a half interest in the business. He gradually got control of the entire business and extended it until it became the largest in Cincinnati.
Kineon, at one time, ran for County Treasurer on the Democratic ticket and was defeated. That was the only active part he took in politics.
A lifetime spent in the unsuccessful fighting of corporations ended Thursday night with the death of Solomon Perin Kineon at the home of his sister, Mrs. Kate Kernohan, in Perintown, Clermont-co. Kineon died after a day's illness. Arrangements for his funeral have been delayed pending the arrival of his wife and son from New York.
Once worth a quarter of a million, Kineon died in reduced circumstances. At one time he was Cincinnati's leading coal merchant, and his home in Clifton was one of the finest in Cincinnati.
He fought the Bell Telephone Co, in an effort to get an independent franchise in Cincinnati, and failed. Before the Drake legislative investigating committee he testified that he was offered an independent telephone franchise for a consideration of $59,000 by a prominent Cincinnati politician.
Fortune Lost in Fight. He was driven out of the coal business by a railroad company with which he engaged in legal warfare over an elevator site, and the battle almost wiped out his fortune.
He clashed with corporations again when he sought to buy a water and gas franchise. He lost through adverse legislation put through by more powerful competitors, and what was left of his fortune was thus consumed.
His beautiful home went with the rest, and a few years ago Kineon passed out of the business life of Cincinnati and retired to the home of his sister in Perintown. He occasionally came to Cincinnati, the last time being Wednesday morning.
Kineon leaves a widow and two sons, James Kineon and Dr. George Goodhue Kineon, a physician on the staff of the State Hospital for Epileptics, at Gallipolis. His widow and son, James, are in New York. They have been notified of his death and are expected in Cincinnati for the funeral.
Kineon was 63 years old. He was born in Perintown, where he died. He came to Cincinnati when a boy and obtained employment in the coal firm of Buchanan and Adams, in which his uncle, the late Oliver Perin was interested.
In 1881 Kineon bought a half interest in the business. He gradually got control of the entire business and extended it until it became the largest in Cincinnati.
Kineon, at one time, ran for County Treasurer on the Democratic ticket and was defeated. That was the only active part he took in politics.
Newspaper clipping dated November 1910: "DEATH OF KINEON ENDS A LIFE WAR AGAINST TRUSTS"
A lifetime spent in the unsuccessful fighting of corporations ended Thursday night with the death of Solomon Perin Kineon at the home of his sister, Mrs. Kate Kernohan, in Perintown, Clermont-co. Kineon died after a day's illness. Arrangements for his funeral have been delayed pending the arrival of his wife and son from New York.
Once worth a quarter of a million, Kineon died in reduced circumstances. At one time he was Cincinnati's leading coal merchant, and his home in Clifton was one of the finest in Cincinnati.
He fought the Bell Telephone Co, in an effort to get an independent franchise in Cincinnati, and failed. Before the Drake legislative investigating committee he testified that he was offered an independent telephone franchise for a consideration of $59,000 by a prominent Cincinnati politician.
Fortune Lost in Fight. He was driven out of the coal business by a railroad company with which he engaged in legal warfare over an elevator site, and the battle almost wiped out his fortune.
He clashed with corporations again when he sought to buy a water and gas franchise. He lost through adverse legislation put through by more powerful competitors, and what was left of his fortune was thus consumed.
His beautiful home went with the rest, and a few years ago Kineon passed out of the business life of Cincinnati and retired to the home of his sister in Perintown. He occasionally came to Cincinnati, the last time being Wednesday morning.
Kineon leaves a widow and two sons, James Kineon and Dr. George Goodhue Kineon, a physician on the staff of the State Hospital for Epileptics, at Gallipolis. His widow and son, James, are in New York. They have been notified of his death and are expected in Cincinnati for the funeral.
Kineon was 63 years old. He was born in Perintown, where he died. He came to Cincinnati when a boy and obtained employment in the coal firm of Buchanan and Adams, in which his uncle, the late Oliver Perin was interested.
In 1881 Kineon bought a half interest in the business. He gradually got control of the entire business and extended it until it became the largest in Cincinnati.
Kineon, at one time, ran for County Treasurer on the Democratic ticket and was defeated. That was the only active part he took in politics.
A lifetime spent in the unsuccessful fighting of corporations ended Thursday night with the death of Solomon Perin Kineon at the home of his sister, Mrs. Kate Kernohan, in Perintown, Clermont-co. Kineon died after a day's illness. Arrangements for his funeral have been delayed pending the arrival of his wife and son from New York.
Once worth a quarter of a million, Kineon died in reduced circumstances. At one time he was Cincinnati's leading coal merchant, and his home in Clifton was one of the finest in Cincinnati.
He fought the Bell Telephone Co, in an effort to get an independent franchise in Cincinnati, and failed. Before the Drake legislative investigating committee he testified that he was offered an independent telephone franchise for a consideration of $59,000 by a prominent Cincinnati politician.
Fortune Lost in Fight. He was driven out of the coal business by a railroad company with which he engaged in legal warfare over an elevator site, and the battle almost wiped out his fortune.
He clashed with corporations again when he sought to buy a water and gas franchise. He lost through adverse legislation put through by more powerful competitors, and what was left of his fortune was thus consumed.
His beautiful home went with the rest, and a few years ago Kineon passed out of the business life of Cincinnati and retired to the home of his sister in Perintown. He occasionally came to Cincinnati, the last time being Wednesday morning.
Kineon leaves a widow and two sons, James Kineon and Dr. George Goodhue Kineon, a physician on the staff of the State Hospital for Epileptics, at Gallipolis. His widow and son, James, are in New York. They have been notified of his death and are expected in Cincinnati for the funeral.
Kineon was 63 years old. He was born in Perintown, where he died. He came to Cincinnati when a boy and obtained employment in the coal firm of Buchanan and Adams, in which his uncle, the late Oliver Perin was interested.
In 1881 Kineon bought a half interest in the business. He gradually got control of the entire business and extended it until it became the largest in Cincinnati.
Kineon, at one time, ran for County Treasurer on the Democratic ticket and was defeated. That was the only active part he took in politics.
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