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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsWilliam Kirk KAYNOR
(1884-1929)
KAYNOR, William Kirk, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Sanborn, O’Brien
County, Iowa, November 29, 1884; attended the common schools of
Spencer and Clear Lake, Iowa; in his early youth was employed as a
drug clerk in Clear Lake; moved to Gann Valley, Buffalo County,
S.Dak., and herded cattle; was graduated from Hotchkiss School,
Lakeville, Conn., in 1908 and from Yale University in 1912; moved
to Springfield, Mass., in 1912 and engaged in the real estate and
insurance business; during the First World War attended the
officers’ training school at Camp Lee, Va., from July to
November 1918; member of the common council of Springfield
1920-1924; postmaster of Springfield 1923-1928; elected as a
Republican to the Seventy-first Congress and served from March 4,
1929, until his death in an airplane accident near Washington,
D.C., on December 20, 1929; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery,
Springfield, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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