Mahaska county's member of the House has combined newspaper work and farming quite successfully during the course of his life. He was born on a farm in Davis county, Iowa, November 7, 1856. Five years later the family moved to Mahaska county, and there he grew up and attended school. In 1882 he went to Yankton, South Dakota, and began work in a printing office. Three years later he returned to the Mahaska county farm, which he left in 1892 to take charge of the Souvenir, published at Jefferson, Greene county. In 1894 he moved to his present home at New Sharon. He was married a number of years ago to Miss Josie Fortney, of West Virginia. They have two boys: Jay McKinley, aged 2, and Baby Roy. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and attends the Methodist church. He has been quite prosperous so far as worldly goods are concerned, and now owns a farm of 160 acres in Hutchinson county, South Dakota; 100 acres in Colfax county, Nebraska, and his home in New Sharon. He has always been a good worker for the Republican party. Both through the columns of the papers he has edited and on the stump he has done good work. In the last campaign the Democrats tried to capture the election by a still hunt, but he worked hard and had the satisfaction of being chosen by a plurality of 1,480 votes.
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