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Frank Kinney - Probate Order rec’d for record Apr 29, 1903 at 2:45 o’clock, P.M. H. N. Elwell (by Flora Garrison, deputy) Register

State of Michigan                  )  ss     In the Probate Court for said County.  In the matter County of Kalamazoo           )           of appointing a Guardian of Frank Kinney an alleged Spendthrift and mentally incompetent person.  To the Hon. James E. White Judge of Probate for said County. The petition of Phoebe Kinney respectfully represents to said Court that she is the wife of said Frank Kinney; that said Frank Kinney is of the age of forty-five years or thereabouts, and is an inhabitant of, or resident in said County of Kalamazoo, and is possessed of real & personal estate situate and being in said County and elsewhere and the estimated value thereof is the sum of Eight Thousand Dollars or thereabout, as your petitioner is informed and verily believes.  Your petitioner further represents that it is necessary that a Guardian of the person and estate of the said Frank Kinney be appointed for the following reasons viz:  That said Frank Kinney is now, and for some time past a spendthrift; that he has become such a spendthrift through excessive drinking of intoxicating liquors; that for some years last past he has been and still is in the habit of drinking intoxicating liquors to such an extent that he has become and now is an habitual drunkard; and through his excessive drinking of intoxicating liquors he has so spent, wasted and lessened his estate as to expose himself and his family to the danger of want and suffering (and the County of Kalamazoo in which County he resides) to charge or expense for the support of himself and his family; and himself and his family are not

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through his said excessive drinking of intoxicating liquor __ danger of want and suffering;  that by reason of his desperate habits and by his almost daily excessive drinking of intoxicating liquors, the said Frank Kinney is now _____ incompetent to have the care, charge and management of his property; that during the past year the said Frank Kinney has disposed of the larger part of his personal property, the most of it at much less in price than it was reasonably worth, and at a great sacrifice in value, and a great part of the avails of the said property so disposed of he has spent for intoxicating liquors, which he has drank; that he has also threatened, and has frequently during the past days threatened to dispose of the rest of his personal property, and he has endeavored so to do, and has stated that he would dispose of said property at any price that he could obtain for same, and if he is able to sell it, he will as petitioner believes, spend and squander the whole of the avails thereof for intoxicating liquor.  And your petitioner fears that unless a Guardian of the person and estate of Frank Kinney is appointed by the court that the said Frank Kinney, will continue to spend waste and lessen his estate to such an extent as to expose himself and his family, including your petitioner, his wife to the danger of ___ and suffering, and the County of Kalamazoo to charge and expense for the support of said Frank Kinney, and his said family, and that his property will be entirely lost to himself and family.  Your petitioner further shows that the names and residence of the nearest of kin of said Frank Kinney and other persons interested in said estate, as your petitioner is informed and believes are as follows:

* Asterisks indicates that the age was determined from the 1900 US Census.

Your petitioner therefore prays that a day to find for hearing this petition, and that notice of said hearing be personally served upon said Frank Kinney not less than fourteen days before said day of hearing requiring him to appear and show cause of any there be why a Guardian should not be appointed as aforesaid, and that Charles Clark of Prairie Ronde Kalamazoo County Mich. may be appointed Guardian of the person and estate of said Frank Kinney according to the provision of the statute in such case made and provided.  Phebe Kinney