Willis J. McKinley and Sarah McDonald

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Husband Willis J. McKinley ¹

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           Born: 1 May 1853 - near New Castle, Lawrence Co, PA 2
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         Father: Alexander S. McKinley (1822-1896) 1 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Morehead (      -      ) 4 5

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       Marriage: 12 Dec 1875 - Youngstown, Mahoning Co, OH 6

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Wife Sarah McDonald ⁶

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         Father: David McDonald (      -      ) 6
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1 M Edward McKinley ⁶

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2 F Clara McKinley ⁶

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3 M George McKinley ⁶

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4 M Roy McKinley ⁶

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5 F Bessie McKinley ⁶

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6 M Howard McKinley ⁶

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General Notes: Husband - Willis J. McKinley

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He was reared in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, attending the public schools till he reached the age of fifteen years. At the age of three years he was left without a mother's tender care by her untimely decease, and when he was six or seven years of age, his father gave up housekeeping, and Willis from that time made his own way. He lived and labored on the farm until his nineteenth year, when he secured a position in a rolling mill, where he worked for one year. Immediately after this, in the spring of 1872, he became a brakeman on the Pennsylvania railroad, and for seven years was employed in that highly dangerous occupation, and was then given a freight train, which he held four years, being then promoted to the more important position of passenger conductor in 1883.
During the years from 1873 to 1880 Mr. McKinley was located in Youngstown, Ohio, at which place he was married. He and his wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church. Mr. McKinley was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors, New Castle Division, No. 326. In his politics, he was liberal, with marked leanings toward the old Jeffersonian Democracy.

1 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 314, 391.

2 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 391.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 51.

4 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 30, 314.

5 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 554.

6 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 392.