Richard Abel Kinzie

Short Name: Richard Abel Kinzie
Full Name: Kinzie, Richard Abel, 1842-1918
Birth Year: 1842
Death Year: 1918

Richard Abel Kinzie (last name also spelled Kenzie, Kensey, Kinsey) was born in Ohio in 1842 and raised in Geneseo, Illinois. He served as a bugler during the Civil War for the 9th Illinois Cavalry and in the postwar era for the 13th U.S. Infantry. Kinzie taught music in Geneseo after the war, and by the 1880s had moved to Kansas where he taught at the State Normal School in Emporia. He later taught music and sold pianos and organs in Cherryvale, Kansas. He died in 1918.

Source: FamilySearch, "The Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 22 March 2025), Richard Abel Kinsey (GWYQ-9J2), Details. https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/GWYQ-9J2


Tunes by Richard Abel Kinzie (44)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
ARE YOU READY TO LABORR. A. Kinzie (Composer)132111 12365 32111
[Be not swift to take offense] (Kinzie)R. A. Kinzie (Composer)131156 65712 54331
[Beyond all doubt and grief and gloom]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)151113 55653 22232
[Foe after foe comes on apace]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)151331 71217 65123
[Gently, like the summer rain] (Kinzie)R. A. Kinzie (Composer)134545 65432 65433
[Hark! I hear the Savior call]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)111113 21222 24323
[How we sing the songs of Zion]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)134556 51572 32165
[I have work enough to do] (Kinzie)R. A. Kinzie (Composer)134555 55654 22234
[I know not when my Lord will say]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)113332 15653 22234
[If your eyes could see the glory]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)133215 33215 61712
[In a distant land, my brother]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)134515 34666 51543
[In seasons of darkness, in moments of gloom]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)155433 21161 55111
[Ins wilde Treiben dieser Welt]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)153213 21565 13213
[Jesus, my Savior, Thee I love]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)155555 61172 21335
[Land of promise, over yonder]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)112333 33321 12165
[Let every heart rejoice and sing] (Kinzie)R. A. Kinzie (Composer)151112 32176 56153
[Let us sing with happy voices]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)134555 55567 11111
[Life is brief, its days are fleeting]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)155536 55444 44254
[Meeting here in earthly houses]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)133321 55543 22234
[My soul was lost in ways of sin]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)134551 56653 44543
[No room for Him, in whose small hand]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)254333 65444 43442
[Now let the temperance banner be]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)111117 65555 11321
[O Soul, where hast thou gleaned today]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)155511 32112 25443
[O our father, we would praise thee]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)1
[O what shall I give to the Savior] (Kinzie)R. A. Kinzie (Composer)151113 21215 66617
[On the banks of life's fair river]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)155653 56122 31555
[Open the door for the children] (Kinzie)R. A. Kinzie (Composer)155554 51544 44321
[Out on an ocean we're sailing along]R. A. Kinsie (Composer)133332 15111 22221
[Over the river I hear the song]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)133344 43211 71321
[Chant] (Kinzie 12177)R. A. Kinzie (Composer)112177 12132 71555
[Savior, lay Thine arm around me]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)134321 65125 67123
[Sweet land, sweet land, sweet land of rest]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)133455 67155 66176
[Tenderly, lovingly calleth today]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)133344 43321 11117
[The fetters of Satan are breaking] (Kinzie)R. A. Kinzie (Composer)151111 32155 17121
[The lark at morn is soaring high]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)113555 65315 66615
[The springtime comes, the air grows warm]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)153156 54234 34565
[There were ninety-and-nine that safely lay] (Kinzie)R. A. Kinzie (Composer)112333 33333 33432
[Thy tender heart, dear Jesus!]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)451112 35565 31251
[We would love Thee, blessed Savior]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)134451 17653 32346
[When at last on the earth falls the mantle of shade]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)112332 33211 65123
[When the chilling blasts of sorrow] (Kinzie)R. A. Kinzie (Composer)153123 46543 21235
[When the storms of life are over] (Kinzie)R. A. Kinzie (Composer)112323 65453 34565
[When we reach the home in glory]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)112334 32157 12243
[Who shall walk in Heav'n above]R. A. Kinzie (Composer)134516 71523 46543
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