Iguatius McKinley
Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri
Biographies of Scott County, 1888
Ignatius McKinley, a prosperous farmer of Kelso Township, Scott Co. Mo., was born in Cape Girardeau County, in 1848 and is a son of John and Martha (Story) McKinley, natives of Virginia and Illinois, respectively, John McKinley was born in 1800, and when a young man went with his parents on pack-horses, to Kentucky. The parents lived to be very old, the father dying in Kentucky, and the mother in Missouri. Although but twelve years of age, John McKinley served in the War of 1812. He was a shoemaker by trade, and went to Illinois where he was married, and resided until about 1830, when he came to Southeast Missouri, and located in Cape Girardeau County, where he remained until the fall of 1860. He then removed to the farm on which the subject of this sketch now resides, and remained until his death on October 5, 1863. His wife, who was born in 1811, died in March 1884. They were the parents of eight children viz: Jane (widow of James Stoley, who resides in St. Louis), William (who died in his forty-sixth year), Benjamin (a merchant of Commerce), Sarah (wife of M. Randol, of St. Louis), John (residing in Scott County), Mary (deceased), Ignatius and Thomas (who died when twenty-nine years of age). Upon the death of his father, Ignatius took charge of the home place and the family then at home. He took care of his mother until her death. John served in the Confederate army. Mr. McKinley cultivates about 130 acres of land and is a successful farmer. He is a member of the A.F. & A.M.
Submitted by Connie Perkins
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