Biography

1801 - 11/17/1878

McKINLEY, Stephen Caldwell, Jr., a Representative from York County; born, 1801 in Chanceford, York County, Pa.; sergeant, Independent Company, Pennsylvania Militia (1863, Civil War); farmer; meat grocer; elected, school board, collector, supervisor and assessor, Lower Chanceford Township; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1843 and 1844; elected, delegate, Democratic State Convention (1849); died, November 17, 1878 in Lower Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania; interred, Chanceford Presbyterian Cemetery, Airville, York County, Pennsylvania.