(died 7 Jan. 1912, aged 44), dairying expert. (J. A. Kinsella; called Professor Kinsella) (date of birth 1876, almost certainly erroneous, also found) Born at Tyotown, GC. Parents: John Kinsella and his wife Margaret Loney. John A. Kinsella was superintendent of the Allen Grove Combination (see D.M. Macpherson), instructor at Kingston Dairy School, and dairy commissioner in the Canadian Northwest. At the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 he was among the people who won awards for cheese. In 1899, about 12 years before his death, he left Canada to be an assistant dairy commissioner to J.A. Ruddick, who was dairy commissioner for New Zealand. (Glengarry News 12 May 1899) He later succeeded Ruddick as dairy commissioner there. Still later, Kinsella held a similar position as dairy consultant to the South African government. And in the Dept. of Agriculture of the Australian state of Western Australia, Kinsella had the position of “Dairy Expert” 1906-1909. He died, still a relatively young man, in Australia, probably at Granville, after an extended illness. He was unmarried.

     His name appeared relatively frequently for some years in the GC-area press. He may or may not have been the John A. Kinsella who in 1889 bought a grocery business at Glen Walter. (Cornwall Freeholder 27 Dec. 1889 cited DTL Standard Freeholder 28 Dec. 1948) In the fall of 1896, D. M. Macpherson’s inspector, J. A. Kinsella, was “engaged fitting up the Maxville creamery.” (Vankleek Hill Review 6 Nov. 1896)

Glengarry News & Cornwall Standard both 23 Feb. 1912 * family gravestone, Precious Blood Cemetery, Glen Walter * Duncan (Darby) MacDonald, My Glengarry (Indian Lands) and Stormont Loney Ancestors of Ireland, Part 2 (1988), xiii, 2-3, [41] * Chicago 1893 80 * A Biographical Register 1788-1939 : Notes from the Name Index of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, compiled and edited by H.J. Gibbney and Ann G. Smith (Canberra : Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1987), Vol. I: A-K, 399 * New South Wales Pioneers Index 1788-1918: an index to birth, death and marriage records on CD ROM. Melbourne: Informit, 1993 * Maurice Cullity, A History of Dairying of Western Australia (1979) 433, 456 * Anglin 56 (=Jack Kinsella in group portrait of Glengarrians at Queen’s, 1896?)