James D. McKinley and [Unk] Eakin

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Husband James D. McKinley ¹

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           Born: 12 Aug 1847 - Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 1
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           Died: 29 Jul 1899 1
         Buried:  - Cross Cemetery, Clintonville, Venango Co, PA 2

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         Father: John McKinley (      -      ) 1
         Mother: 

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   Other Spouse: Christina Beighley (      -Aft 1919) 1 - Abt 1880

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Wife [Unk] Eakin ¹

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Children

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1 M William Orr McKinley ¹

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General Notes: Husband - James D. McKinley

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He was born in Clinton Township, Venango County, PA, on a farm adjoining the place which he afterward acquired, and which he bought from his father. It had been previously owned by his grandfather, James McKinley, and comprised 110 acres, partly under cultivation and meagerly improved in the way of buildings, the substantial structures now standing on the place having been erected during his ownership. He put up the present barn in 1898. Mr. McKinley literally gave his life to the development of this property, for though he died in his prime, he succeeded in transforming it from a rundown condition to systematic and orderly arrangement and profitable fertility. He cleared out several fields, and developed the place principally as a cattle farm, breeding Polled Angus stock, of which he had the only herd in the neighborhood. This line was his specialty for probably ten years, until his death, and he made his most notable success in it. As a citizen he had the confidence and esteem of his fellow men, whom he served as constable for years and also in the office of tax collector, holding both positions at the time of his death. [CAB, 786]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 786.

2 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 2, Clinton Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1994), Pg 99.