page_title: John K. Kane
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: John K. Kane / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: John Neagle, American, 1796–1865 John Kintzing Kane, 1828 Oil on canvas 77 x 64 cm. (30 5/16 x 25 3/16 in.) frame: 96.3 × 86 × 8 cm (37 15/16 × 33 7/8 × 3 1/8 in.) Museum purchase y1945-207
context_page_description: John Kintzing Kane was the 21st Attorney General of Pennsylvania and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
context_section_description: Kane was the son of Elisha Kane and Alida (née Van Rensselaer), daughter of Brigadier General Robert Van Rensselaer and Cornelia Rutsen. When his mother Alida died in 1799, Elisha married Elizabeth Kintzing, and it was she who raised John and his siblings. In 1819, Kane was married to Jane Duval Leiper (1796–1866), the daughter of Thomas Leiper (1745–1825). Together, they had seven children, including one that died in infancy. Two sons became well known as adults:
  Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1857), who was a United States naval officer, physician and explorer. He was a member of two Arctic expeditions that tried to rescue the explorer Sir John Franklin and his team.
  Thomas Leiper Kane (1822–1883), who was an attorney, abolitionist and military officer, who was influential in the western migration of the Latter-day Saints movement and served as a Union colonel and general of volunteers in the American Civil War.
  Elizabeth Kane (1830–1869), who married Charles Woodruff Shields (1825–1904) in 1861.
caption: John Neagle, John Kintzing Kane, 1828, Princeton University Art Museum
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