Mcnairy County TN Archives Biographies.....McKINNEY, Robert E. June 18, 1857 - 
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Author: Tennessee History and Biographies, McNairy County

Robert E. McKinney, clerk and master of the chancery court, of McNairy County,

Tenn., was born June 18, 1857, and received his early education at Purdy, but

subsequently attended the Mars Hill Academy, in Alabama. At the age of fifteen

he was appointed deputy circuit clerk, and afterward held the position as deputy

in the register's office for some time. In the winter of 1878-79 he took a

course of lectures at the Louisville University, having previousily studied

medicine at Purdy. In the spring of 1879 he began the practice of his

profession, and in April of the same year he received the appointment of the

office of clerk and master of the chancery court, was reappointed and continued

to hold that position. January, 1831, he married Miss Mollie Stubbs, a native of

Baldwin, Miss., born August, 1860, and a daughter of Thomas B. and Virginia

Stubbs. August, 1884, our subject was elected chairman of the Democratic

Executive Committee of the county and was also congressional committeeman for

the county for the same term. He has been a public officer of the county most of

the time since he was fiteen years of age; he is a man well known and much

esteemed by all his acquaintances as an excellent officer and an obliging

neighbor. He is an ardent Democrat in politics. He is one of a family of seven

children born to Judge J. F. and Julia A. (Adams) McKinney. The father was born

in Fayeeteville, Tenn., , in 1823. He read law in his native town and was

admitted to the bar at that place, after which he came to McNairy County and

located at Purdy and began the practice of his chosen profession. He was

twenty-four years of age at that time, and practiced in this and adjoining

counties for many years. He held the honorable position of both circuit and

chancellor judge by commission from the governor, and was one of the leading

lawyers of West Tennessee. He died May, 1880. The mother of our subject was born

at Purdy, November, 1833, and is the daughter of B. B. and Amanda F. Adams,

native Virginians, who came to this place at a very early day.

Additional Comments:
Transcribed as printed from McNairy County History; Chickago and Nashville: The

Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1887 by Jackie Rhodes

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