Kinsman

The township of Kinsman was purchased in 1799 by John Kinsman of Lisbon, Connecticut, from the Connecticut Land Company. Kinsman was home to many notable citizens, including Philip P. Bliss and James McGrannahan, hymn composers and religious musical directors for the nationally known evangelical Dwight L. Moody Revival Meetings held in Kinsman for thirty years in the late 1800s; Clarence Darrow, the famous labor and criminal lawyer who grew up in Farmdale and in the octagon house in Kinsman and is probably best known for his work as a defense attorney in the Scopes Trial; Dr. Ernest Lyman Scott, whose pioneering method of extracting insulin was later used by Frederick Banting and John Macleod in their Nobel Prize-winning work treating diabetes; Edmond Moore Hamilton, a science fiction author; his wife, Leigh Brackett Hamilton, a screen writer whose popular movie scripts included Rio Bravo and Star Wars II; and William Bill McKinley, a Major League Baseball umpire from 1946 to 1965 who umpired three All-Star Games and several World Series.

Kinsman Center, Ohio · United States