Sarah Gertrude MacKinney

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Wife Sarah Gertrude MacKinney ¹

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            AKA: Sarah Gertrude McKinney 2 3
           Born: 29 Mar 1874 - Chicora, Donegal Twp, Butler Co, PA 3
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         Father: Henry Bigler McKinney (1847-Bef 1926) 4 5 6
         Mother: Mary Jane Thompson (      -Bef 1913) 1 2 3

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General Notes: Wife - Sarah Gertrude MacKinney

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She made a unique place for herself in Butler County, Pennslvania, and was well known for her furtherance of civic projects. In 1923 she represented Butler County in the Lower House of the State Legislature, and she was prominent in many clubs and social organizations. She was a business woman, associated with her brothers and sister in the management of the Butler Engine and Foundry Company.
She received her education in the public schools, and in Grove City College, from which she graduated in the class of 1898 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. She was for several years a teacher in the Pittsburgh high schools, and then accepted a position as librarian of the Grove City Carnegie Library, where she remained for six years. In 1910 she moved to Butler to devote her chief interest to the Butler Engine and Foundry Company in association with her father, H. B. MacKinney, her brothers, Mont M. MacKinney and John J. MacKinney, and her sister, Lydia A. MacKinney.
In addition to her business interests, Miss MacKinney took a prominent part in the affairs of the community. She was a past president of the local Woman's Club, in which capacity she served for three years, and later served as vice-president of the Southwestern District for the State Federation of Pennsylvania Club Women, this district comprising fourteen counties about Pittsburgh. Her political interests brought her into prominence as vice-president of the Legislative Committee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, as vice-president of the Republican Women's Club of Philadelphia, and director of the Council of the Republican Women of Pennsylvania, and finally as representative of Butler County in the Lower House of the State Legislature. Miss MacKinney was a member and Past State Deputy of the Order of the Eastern Star, and served as Matron of the local chapter. She was also treasurer of the local Public Library. Her religious affiliation was with the Methodist Church.

The Butler Engine and Foundry Company, conducted by members of the MacKinney, was a well-established concern, one of the most prominent in Butler, Pennsylvania. It was first started in Foxburg, after several years moved to Bradford, and in 1882 located in Butler, being then under the management of Messrs. Ball, Shears and McKee and engaged in the manufacture of the Ball engine, which had been invented by Mr. Ball. In 1904 the concern was purchased by the following members of the MacKinney family: H. B. MacKinney, and his sons and daughters: M. M. MacKinney, J. J. MacKinney, Lydia A. MacKinney and S. Gertrude MacKinney.
The Ball engine was the universally accepted engine for oil well use and was employed in all parts of the world where there was petroleum. The plant, at which sixty men were employed [1926], occupied two acres of land, with buildings, yard storage and a siding on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

1 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 195.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 777.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 365.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 774.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 417.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 364.