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McKINNEY

McKINLY, John, 1st president of the Dela- ware state, was born in Ireland, Feb. 24, 1721. He immigrated to the United States in 1742 and set- tled at Wilmington, Del., where he was a prac- titioner in physic. He was married about 1761 to Jane Richardson. He was sheriff of New- castle county, 1757-60; chief burgess of Wilming- ton, 1759-77. and on Feb. 21, 1777, he was elected the first president of Delaware. He held this office until Sept. 11, 1777, when the British troops fresh from the battle of Brandy wine entered Wil- mington and took him prisoner, and he was suc- ceeded in office by Thomas McKean (q.v.). He was exchanged in October, 1778. He was briga- dier-general of the state militia during the Revo- lution, and in December, 1782, he filed a statement showing that he had sustained a loss of £1,055 in damage to his property at the time of his arrest. He was a founder of the Delaware Medical so- ciety in 1789 ; and was a trustee of the First Presbyterian church, 1789-96. There is supposed to be no portrait of him in existence. He died in Wilmington, Del., Aug. 31, 1796.

McKINNEY, John Prank, representative, was born in Piqua, Ohio, April 12, 1827 ; son of John and Jane (Scott) McKinney, and grandson of James McKinney. He matriculated at the Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, Ohio, but left at the close of his first year to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1851 and practised in Piqua, Miami county. He was a Democratic representative from the fourth Ohio district in the 38th and 42d congresses, 1863-65 and 1871-73, and was defeated in 1864 by William Lawrence. He continued the practice of law at Piqua.

McKINNEY, Luther Franklin, representative, was born near Newark, Ohio, April 25, 1841. He was brought up on a farm and attended and taught district schools. He served in the civil war as sergeant in the 1st Ohio cavalry, 1861-63 ; and was discharged on account of disability in February, 1863. He engaged in farming and teaching school in Iowa, 1865-67, and in 1867 en- tered the theological department of St. Lawrence university, Canton, N.Y., and was graduated in 1870. He was pastor of a Universal] st church in Maine, 1870-73, and in the latter year removed to Manchester, N.H., where he became actively in- terested in politics. He was an unsuccessful candidate for representative in the 49th congress in 1884 ; was elected a Democratic representative in the 50th congress, 1887-89 ; was defeated for the 51st, and was elected to the 52d congress, 1891-93. He was the defeated candidate for gov- ernor of New Hampshire in 1892. He was ap- pointed by President Cleveland in 1893 envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Colombia and served throughout the administra- tion. On his return in 1897 he removed to Bridg-

ton, Maine, and in 1898 was i^ominated for repre- sentative in the 56th congress, and was defeated by Thomas B. Reed.

McKINNEY, Mordecal, lawyer, was born near Carlisle, Pa., in 1796, son of Mordecai and Mary (Chambers) McKinney, and a grandson of Col. William Chambers. He was graduated from Dickinson college. Pa., in 1814, studied law with Judge Duncan of Carlisle, was admitted to the Dauplnn county bar in May, 1817, and settled in practice in Harrisburg, Pa. He was district at- torney of Union county. Pa., 1821-24; clerk to the county commissioners of Dauphin county, Pa. , 1824-27, and was appointed associate judge of Dauphin county by Governor Shulze, Oct. 23, 1827. He subsequently turned his attention to the compilation and publication of law books. He was married to Rachel, daughter of William Gray- don, of Harrisburg, Pa. He is the author of •. The Pennsylvania Justice of the Peace (2 vols., 1839) ; A Digest of the Acts of Assembly of Penn- sylvania from 1700 to ISIfi (1841) ; The United States Constitutional Manual (1845) ; Tlte Amer- ican Magistrate and Civil Officer (1850, new ed., 2 vols., 1853); Pennsylvania Tax Laws (1850) ; A Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania relative to BankS'and Bankers (1854), and Our Government : A Manual for Popular Use (1856). He died at Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 17, 1867.

McKINNEY, Philip Watkins, governor of Vir- ginia, was born in Buckingham county, Va., March 17, 1832 ; son of Charles and Martha (Guer- rant) McKinney. His father was a farmer. He was graduated from Hampden-Sidney college in 1851 ; studied at the law school of Judge Brockenborough in Lexington, Va., 1851 -52 ; was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1852 ; represented Buckingham county in the Virginia legis- lature, 1855-61 ; and in 1862 was captain of the Buckingham troop, a company in the 4th Virginia cavalry. He served until wounded at Brandy Station, June

9, 1863 ; and on his recovery, being incapac- itated for field duty, he commanded a military post at Danville, Va. At the close of the war he resumed his law practice at Farmville. He filled the office of prosecuting attorney several terms and was the defeated Democratic candidate for attorney-general of Virginia in 1881. He was a presidential elector at large on the Cleveland

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