BIO:  McKINLEY, Simon T., s/o Thornton & Eliza B. (Nicholson) McKinley	

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

McKINLEY   NICHOLSON   ROBINSON	

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co.  1886

Knox County, Steen Twp., page 554

SIMON T. McKINLEY was born in Knox County, Ind., June 20, 1848, the youngest
of five children born to Thornton and Eliza B. (Nicholson) McKinley, born
in Kentucky and Indiana, and of Irish-German and Irish extraction.  He
received a somewhat limited education, and remained under the paternal roof
until twenty-eight years old.  About this time he was married, and removed
to the farm where he now lives, having purchased it in 1877.  He worked out
by the day and month to obtain his start, and his home now represents the
fruits of his own labor.  He owns 250 acres of land, the greater part under
cultivation.  He was married, December 4, 1877, to Miss Sarah E. Robinson,
daughter of Richard Robinson, born January 2, 1852.  She is a member of the
Presbyterian Church, and Mr. McKinley is a Republican politically.  Thornton
McKinley, the father of our subject, removed with his parents to Daviess
County, Ind., in his youth, in 1816, and was here reared to manhood.  He was
reared on a farm, and followed this vocation through life.  He removed to
Knox County after his father's death, and lived with a sister until he was
married, February 16, 1840.  He visited Texas in 1846, with a view to making
that state his home, and after his return was taken ill, and died November
9, 1847.  Mrs. McKinley, soon after her husband's death, purchased her
present home, where she has lived ever since.  She is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
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