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Kirby was born in Brownville, New York, to Colonel Edmund Kirby (1794–1849), a United States Army paymaster and veteran of the Mexican–American War, and Eliza Brown. He was a second cousin of Confederate general Edmund Kirby Smith, and his mother was the daughter of Major General Jacob Brown, who previously served as the Commanding General of the United States Army.