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DR. C. McKINNEY, Ballard County, was born in Trigg County, Ky., on September 16, 1814, and is a son of Isaac and Susannah (Bird) McKinney. The father was a native of Chester District, S. C., having been born there in June, 1782. He moved to Trigg County, Ky., in 1809, and settled in the Linton Precinct, where he resided until 1833, when he came to the Purchase and settled near where the village of Murray, Calloway County, now stands. There he died in March, 1845; his widow died in Millburn in the fall of 1876, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. Subject is the second of four living brothers, viz.: Dr. Ewing C., in Jonesborough, Ill.; Candous, our subject; Eckles, in Texas County, Mo., and York in Arkansas. Subject’s education was received in the neighborhood schools of his native county. He remained at home until twenty-one, and then taught school for three years. He then commenced reading medicine with Dr. R. B. Clousel, of Concord, Calloway County, remained three years, and then attended lectures at the Cincinnati College of Medicine, graduating in the class of 1845. Returning home, he soon moved to Hardiman County, Tenn., where he practiced for seven years; he then came to Milburn, where he has since resided. He is now probably the oldest practicing physician in the Purchase, and besides his lucrative practice he owns a fine farm, which he has cultivated. Dr. McKinney was married on May 2, 1849, to Miss Martha A. McKinney, a daughter of Ewing and Elizabeth (Miller) McKinney. The result of this union has been three children, two of whom are now living: Emma A., wife of I. E. Conley, of Wickliffe, Ky., and Ida E., wife of Thomas A. Stanley, of Arlington, Ky.