[Land of promise, over yonder]

Composer: R. A. Kinzie

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 Go to person page >