Husband Henry Bigler McKinney 1 2 3
AKA: Henry D. MacKinney 4
Born: 27 May 1847 - Pittsfield, Warren Co, PA 1 3
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Died: Bef 1926
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Father: James McKinney (1810-1894) 2 3 5
Mother: Lydia Drury Turner (1816-1898) 2 3
Marriage: 1871 6
• Business: Butler Engine & Foundry Works: Butler, Butler Co, PA.
Wife Mary Jane Thompson 4 6 7
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Died: Bef 1913 - Butler, Butler Co, PA
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1 M Mont M. MacKinney 4 8
AKA: Montgomery Mortimer McKinney 6 7
Born: 8 Apr 1872 - Chicora, Donegal Twp, Butler Co, PA 4 7
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Spouse: Anna Marie Beck ( - ) 4 8
Marr: 31 Jan 1905 4
2 F Sarah Gertrude MacKinney 4
AKA: Sarah Gertrude McKinney 6 7
Born: 29 Mar 1874 - Chicora, Donegal Twp, Butler Co, PA 7
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3 F Lydia A. MacKinney 4
AKA: Lydia A. McKinney 6 7
Born: 5 Oct 1875 - Chicora, Donegal Twp, Butler Co, PA 7
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4 M John J. MacKinney 4
AKA: John J. McKinney 6 7
Born: 5 Feb 1877 - Chicora, Donegal Twp, Butler Co, PA 4 7
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Spouse: Elizabeth Frazier ( - ) 4
Marr: 3 Jul 1912 4
General Notes: Husband - Henry Bigler McKinney
He was educated at Pittsfield and Waterford, Pennsylvania, and at Kingston, Ross County, Ohio, completing his preparation for a business life by taking a commercial course at Poughkeepsie, New York. He found an opening in the oil fields of Pennsylvania, starting on Benneyhoof Run, and for more than forty-three years he was identified with oil interests in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia, for thirty years being a producer in his native state. In 1902 he purchased the Butler Engine & Foundry Works and did a very large foundry and machine trade in the way of repairs and supplies, together with manufacturing steam and gas engines, each of seven sizes, strictly for the oil trade. He gave employment to forty workmen.
During the period of his children's college attendance, Mr. McKinney maintained his home at Grove City and then returned to Butler. During his residence there he was made the nominee of the Democratic party for the State Assembly, and notwithstanding his short period of residence, he came within twenty-seven votes of being elected. Mr. McKinney was a member of the First Methodist Church of Butler.
The Butler Engine and Foundry Company, conducted by members of the MacKinney, was a well-established concern, one of the most prominent in Butler, Pennsylvania. It was first started in Foxburg, after several years moved to Bradford, and in 1882 located in Butler, being then under the management of Messrs. Ball, Shears and McKee and engaged in the manufacture of the Ball engine, which had been invented by Mr. Ball. In 1904 the concern was purchased by the following members of the MacKinney family: H. B. MacKinney, and his sons and daughters: M. M. MacKinney, J. J. MacKinney, Lydia A. MacKinney and S. Gertrude MacKinney.
The Ball engine was the universally accepted engine for oil well use and was employed in all parts of the world where there was petroleum. The plant, at which sixty men were employed [1926], occupied two acres of land, with buildings, yard storage and a siding on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
General Notes: Wife - Mary Jane Thompson
from Mercer, Mercer Co, PA