Rash's Surname Index
Notes for John Kintzing KANE
John Kintzing Kane (16 May 1795 - 21 February 1858) was an American politician, attorney and jurist. Kane was noted for his political affiliation with President Andrew Jackson and for an 1855 pro-slavery legal decision dealing with the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
Kane was born in Albany, New York, the son of Elisha Kane and Alida Van Rensselaer. He graduated from Yale University in 1814, studied law with Joseph Hopkinson, and was admitted to the bar on April 18, 1817. He established a legal practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kane married Jane Duval Leiper in 1819. The couple had six children, included two well-known sons. Elisha Kent Kane was a naval officer, physician and explorer. He was a member of two Arctic expeditions which attempted to rescue the explorer Sir John Franklin. Thomas L. Kane was an attorney, abolitionist and military officer who was influential in the western migration of the Latter-day Saint movement and served as a Union colonel and general of volunteers in the American Civil War.
Kane was active in founding Girard College and was involved in the appointment of the institution's first board of trustees. Kane was one of the trustees and legal advisers of the Presbyterian church in the United States. He also took a prominent role in the controversy which eventually divided the Presbyterian church into the "new" and "old" schools. From 1856 until his death, he was President of the American Philosophical Society.
Kane died in Philadelphia on February 21, 1858, and was buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.
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