When James Bailey McKinley was born in 1855, in Iowa, United States, his father, David Mckinley, was 26 and his mother, Alice Allen, was 16. He married Amanda Josephine Conner about 1883, in Tulare, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Visalia, Tulare, California, United States for about 20 years and Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States in 1910. He died in 1921, in California, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Porterville, Tulare, California, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1866: Kern, California, United States
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fhionnlaigh, a patronymic from the early personal name Fionnlaoch (see Finley ).
History: William McKinley (1843–1901), 25th US president, was born at Niles, OH, a descendant of David McKinley, known as ‘David the Weaver’, of Scotch–Irish stock, who settled in York County, PA, c. 1743. William McKinley's family were iron founders who tracked the ore from the Susquehanna Valley in PA to Columbiana County, OH.
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