Husband George H. McKinley 1
Born: 21 Aug 1850 - New Castle, Lawrence Co, PA 1
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Father: Alexander S. McKinley (1822-1896) 2 3
Mother: Elizabeth Morehead ( - ) 4 5
Marriage: 17 Sep 1874 - Mt. Jackson, Beaver Co, PA 6
Wife Elizabeth Howard 6
Born: - Old Enon, PA
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Father: Edward L. Howard (1825- ) 7
Mother: Sarah J. Lane ( - ) 7
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1 F Sadie May McKinley 8
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Spouse: Howard Taylor ( - ) 8
Marr: 23 Dec 1895 8
General Notes: Husband - George H. McKinley
Dating from the time when he was ten years of age until he had attained his majority, his life was cast among strangers. The first ten years of his life were spent in New Castle, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, and the succeeding decade in New Wilmington, and his education was obtained in the schools of these two places, his attendance at school extending till his eighteenth year, and being of a very desultory and much-interrupted character, for it was not always possible for him to attend school when other boys of his age did. He lost his mother at the age of five, and five years later his father broke up housekeeping, and from the age of ten years he battled with life's problems alone. He began railroad life on the lowest round, working on the section gang for the P. & F. W., but he was not fated to remain stationary in such a position, but soon rose to a place on the work train, and from there was advanced to the position of brakeman on a freight, and in less than two years was placed in charge of a freight train as conductor, which position he filled some six years. It was during this period that a serious and almost fatal accident befell Mr. McKinley; he was thrown from the top of the train, and in falling his left arm was thrown under the wheels, which crushed the bones from the elbow to the shoulder; it was deemed so serious that the surgeons determined that amputation must be resorted to in order to save his life. But his endurance was wonderful, and by pure grit he pulled through without any such operation, and so far recovered the use of his arm, that its mangled condition would never be remarked by one unacquainted with the accident. The succeeding seven years Mr. McKinley was conductor of a local mixed train, running from Youngstown, Ohio; in June, 1886, he was given a passenger run, and moved to Alliance, Ohio. In April, 1896, he returned to his birthplace, and began to alternate with his brother Willis J. McKinley on two runs over the Pennsylvania R. R.
He and his wife were members of the First M. E. Church of New Castle, Pennsylvania. In politics, Mr. McKinley was an old-line Democrat, and could not countenance with his support the alliance of Jeffersonian principles with visionary populistic doctrines. He was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors, Division No. 177, of Alliance, Ohio.