Early Life
Kinnon was born in Paisley, Scotland on April 5, 1911. He and his parents moved to the United States in the 1920s. For medical reasons he was separated from his parents on Ellis Island for three and a half days. He befriended a German family while he was waiting for his sister to be cleared of a medical issue. When the family was reunited they moved to Philadelphia. He never saw the German family again. While in Philadelphia Kinnon went to private school and had plans of entering the priesthood. He began using alcohol and drugs which started getting him in trouble. He never followed through with his goal of becoming a priest.
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