William Kincaid became the interim editor of The Lorain County News with the departure of Marsh and Peck on September 30, 1863. As interim editor he held the position until March 1, 1864 (H.E. Peck, September 30, 1863).

Kincaid was born in London, England on March 8, 1841. He came to the U.S. as a small boy. His family moved to Glenwood, New York where they became members of the local Congregational Church. Mr. Kincaid tried to enlist in the Union army but he was not accepted for active duty because of an injury to his arms. He did however serve for six months in the Quartermaster's Department on the Atlantic Coast (Martha Kincaid, "Oberlin In The Individual," Fiftieth Anniversary of the Second Congregational Church of Oberlin, Ohio, April 30, May 1-2 1910 [Oberlin, OH: Second Congregational Church, 1910]). Kincaid attended Oberlin College, earning his A.B. degree in 1865. As a senior in college William Kincaid assumed the editorship of The News (Williams Brothers, 65). He married Martha J. Chapman, also a member of the Oberlin College Class of 1865, on August 24, 1865. They had two children, a son and a daughter.

William Kincaid graduated from the Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1868. He was ordained at the Congregational Church in Rushville New York, where he served as the minister from September 1, 1867 until September 1, 1870. From Rushville he accepted a position at a church in Leavenworth, Kansas where he served from November 16, 1870 to January 21, 1876. His final church appointment was as the first pastor of the new Second Congregational Church of Oberlin, a position he held from April 12, 1876 to April 28, 1882. The Kincaid family moved to New York City where William became the Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1885-1888. His final job was with the American Home Missionary Society from 1888 to 1897. Kincaid died of anemia in Brooklyn, New York on February 12, 1897 (Student File, William Kincaid, Oberlin College Archives). William Kincaid is yet another example of an editor of The News that had a strong and lasting commitment to Oberlin, the town and the college. This was evident in his choice return to Oberlin to the minister to the new Congregational Church in Oberlin.