Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Herbert Renwick McKinney and Lavina D. McGuire




Husband Herbert Renwick McKinney 1 2

           Born: 6 Jun 1853 - Pittsfield, Warren Co, PA 2
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         Father: James McKinney (1810-1894) 1 3 4
         Mother: Lydia Drury Turner (1816-1898) 1 4


       Marriage: 4 Jul 1879 2



Wife Lavina D. McGuire 2 5

           Born: 3 Mar 1859 - Garland, Pittsfield Twp, Warren Co, PA 2
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         Father: Thomas Lyons McGuire, Jr. (1834/1936-1908) 5 6 7
         Mother: Eliza Jane Upton (1831-1898) 5 6 7




Children
1 M Laurence J. McKinney 2

           Born: 25 Feb 1881 - Rew City, PA 2
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         Spouse: Clara Gorman (      -      ) 2


2 F Lenora McKinney 2

           Born: 26 Jan 1883 - Garland, Pittsfield Twp, Warren Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: John Reigel (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 30 Apr 1912 2


3 F Bertha B. McKinney 2

           Born: 15 Nov 1884 - Eldred, McKean Co, PA 2
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4 F Lydia Drury McKinney 2

            AKA: Mae McKinney 8
           Born: 14 Jun 1886 - Eldred, McKean Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Charles Snowden Van Tine (      -      ) 9 10


5 M George Renwick McKinney 2

           Born: 7 Apr 1901 - Eldred, McKean Co, PA 2
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General Notes: Husband - Herbert Renwick McKinney


He was educated in the public schools, finishing his studies with a course at Bryant & Stratton's Business College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania. He was associated with the production of oil all his business life, beginning on leaving college, and following the oil fields of Venango, Butler and Clarion counties, Pennsylvania, and the fields in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Ohio and Illinois. In 1879 he located in Eldred, McKean County, Pennsylvania, continuing in oil production there until 1902, when he moved to Bradford, where he was one of the most prominent producers in that city. He was the principal owner of the McKinney Oil Company, the McKinney & Patton Oil Company and the oil firm of L. J. McKinney & Company. He was at one time president of the Eldred Power Company, ex-director of the Penn-Dixey Mining Company, and had other important interests. He was a Democrat in politics and a member of Eldred Lodge, No. 560, Free and Accepted Masons, also of the order of the Eastern Star.


General Notes: Wife - Lavina D. McGuire


She was educated in the public schools of Garland, Pennsylvania, and the high school at Youngsville, Pennsylvania. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church; Bradford Chapter, No. 61, Order of the Eastern Star, and Arbutus Hive, No. 11, Lady Maccabees, of Eldred.

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Sources


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

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

3 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 899.

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

5 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), BP 62.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 366.

7 J. Duane Upton, The Ancestry of J. Duane Upton (Santa Ana, CA: Self-published, 1967), Pg 37.

8 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 98.

9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 365, 668.

10 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 256.


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