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W. McKinney was born in Pennsylvania. He came to Green Township, Randolph
County, in 1837. He has had eleven children, eight still alive, and seven
are married. His children reside in Randolph, Jay and Delaware Counties and
in Nebraska. His father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, who died
at Fairview, aged ninety years. Mr. McKinney also died at Fairview, Indiana,
an old man. He was a farmer and a Democrat, and had been a soldier in the
War of 1812. It is a noteworthy fact that when he arrived in Randolph County,
he had just 60 cents and no more.
As poor as he was, his son, John W. McKinney now owns some 1,500 acres of land and supports hundreds of cattle for market in the larger towns and more distant cities. The wealth that they possess has every cent been acquired since that important day when the elder McKinney became a citizen of Randolph County. His father must have felt an admiration for the daring soldier who captured Stony Point at midnight in the old Revolutionary War, since he named his son after the gallant hero, Anthony Wayne, "Mad Anthony," whom the Indian chief called the "General who never slept," who, by his valor and prowess, retrieved the shameful disasters and defeats of the past campaigns, and taught the haughty savages submission to the power of the whites. History of Randolph County, Green Township Chapter
. . .The first mill was built by Anthony McKinney on the river below Fairview, where Woolverton's Mill now is. He had first a sawmill, then a corn cracker, afterward a gristmill. He was making the dam in 1838. The sawmill began work in 1839, the corn mill in the fall, and the wheat mill in 1841 or 1842. Anthony W. McKinney is buried in Fairview Cemetery, Fairview, Indiana Submitted by 5th Great Granddaughter Janette Dalton. |
