Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, Butler Co.

JOHN M. McKINNEY, Butler County, was born July 20, 1854, in Ohio County, 
Ky., where he resided all his life until recently, when he became a 
resident of Butler County.  He is the fourth in a family of twelve 
children born to Marshall and Eliza McKinney, both of whom are native 
Kentuckians, and are still living in Ohio County.  The grandfather of 
our subject was John McKinney, a Kentuckian by birth and of Irish 
descent, being a son of James McKinney, whose father was a native of 
Ireland, emigrated to America and settled in Virginia about the middle 
of the eighteenth century.  John M. was obliged to assist as much as 
possible in the support of the family, his father being disabled, and 
was therefore, deprived of every advantage of school education, though 
in after life he set assiduously to work to educate himself, which he 
did to some purpose; is able to transact all ordinary business, and is 
well posted on the topics of the day.  After attaining the age of 
twenty-six years, and within that time bought 108 acres of land on the 
waters of Green River, and in Butler County.  He has given his attention 
exclusively to his farming interests, and his farm is well imporved with 
good fences, barns and dwelling; fifty acres are in cultivation, and 
produce abundant crops of grain and tobacco.  The water privileges are 
execellent, and the land is well adapted to grass; he gives some 
attention to stock raising.  On January, 19, 1881, Mr. McKinney married 
Margaret A., daughter of James H. Read of Butler County.  Mr. and Mrs. 
McKinney are the parents of two sons: Chester A. and Albert S.  Mr. McK. 
is a member of the Baptist Church.  Though not a prohibitionist, his 
influence is in favor of the cause of temperance.  Politically he is a 
Democrat, but takes no part in politics.

McKinney Read
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Ohio-KY Ireland VA

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