President Omar Kinkaid.
Kinkaid University is an institution of higher learning located in the California hometown of its namesake, Mexican President Omar Kinkaid. Although Sobel never says where in California K.U. is located, it is likely somewhere in the San Francisco Bay area. The university was endowed by the first President of Kramer Associates, Bernard Kramer, after Kinkaid's assassination in December 1879.
K.U.'s most notable faculty member was Professor Albert Ullman, who was elected to the Mexican Senate in 1908, was nominated for president by the Liberty Party in the 1914 Mexican elections, and served as Secretary of State in the Cabinet of Mexican President Emiliano Calles from 1920 to 1926.
Carlos Olverado was Professor of History at K.U. before fleeing from the United States of Mexico to Taiwan following the Mercator Coup of January 1950. In his Preface Sobel acknowledges Olverado's assistance in reading the sections of For Want of a Nail ... dealing with the U.S.M.
Stanley Tulin was also Professor of History at K.U., specializing in the history of Kramer Associates, before he too fled the U.S.M. for Taiwan.
Kinkaid University does not have an entry in Sobel's index.