A. W. McKinney, the present Assessor of Harris county, was born in Alexandria, Rapides parish, Louisiania, August 15, 1842, and is a son of' Mercer and Sophronia McKinney. Albert W. McKinney was brought to Harris county by his parents in 1856. His early youth was spent on the farm and in the public schools of this county until the opening of the late war. He enlisted in the Confederate service when the first call was made for troops, entering a company called the "Galveston Rifles,'' commanded by Captain McKeen, with which he served only a short time, when he joined Company K, in Colonel E. B. Nicols' regiment, for six months. At the expiration of this time he re-entered the service as a member of Company B, Twenty-fourth Regiment of Texas Dismounted Cavalry, with which he served until February, 1864, and then he was transferred to the Texas Rangers, and remained with this celebrated command until the close of the war. He was captured at Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863, and was held in prison at Camp Butler, near Springfield, Illinois, until April following, when he was exchanged at City Point, Virginia. Arriving at Richmond, he was ordered to join the Army of Tennessee, and after entering this he was in the engagements at MacLemore's Cove, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, Dalton, Calhoun, Resaca, Golgotha Church, New Hope Church, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy's Station, Decatur (Alabama), Columbia, Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville (Tennessee), and winding up at Bentonville, North Carolina, where the army under Joseph E. Johnston, to which he then belonged, surrendered to General Sherman. Through all this army experience Mr. McKinney passed, faithfully performing the soldier's duty, as a private, and received but one wound, and that a slight one, in the flesh only, at Arkansas Post.
Returning to Texas after the close of the war, he resumed work upon his father's farm. December 20, 1867, he married Miss Jane Singleton, of Harris county, and the same year settled on a farm thirteen miles east of Houston, where for sixteen years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits.
In November, 1884, he was elected Assessor of Harris county, and, the duties of this office requiring his constant presence at the county seat, he moved to Houston, and has since resided in this city. In 1886 he was not re-elected to the office, but was in 1888, and has ever since then held the position by successive re-elections. Previous to his first election to this place he had been Deputy Sheriff of the county and Constable of the precinct in which he lived, and altogether he has served the people in one capacity or another for twelve or fifteen years. He is a careful, painstaking and impartial officer, and on account of his accurate knowledge of values and extensive acquaintance, both with the people and with the country, he has made a most acceptable Assessor, and his popularity has been attested by his frequent re-elections and the high terms of praise in which all classes of people speak of him. Of course, in his political views he is a Democrat; and, as often as the question of politics has entered into any election at which he has been a candidate, he has submitted his claims to the decision of his party. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Sampson Lodge, No. 231, at Lynchburg, Harris county, and has represented this body at the Grand Lodge.
By his marriage Mr. McKinney connected himself with one of the oldest families of this county, his father-in-law, James W. Singleton, moving to this county as early as 1826. Mrs. McKinney was born and reared in this county. The children in their family are: Mary F., the wife of R. E. Dunks, of Crosby, this county; Edna, now Mrs. H. B. Cline, of Houston; Georgia F., who married Henry M. Curtin, of Houston; Gilbert A.; and Albert W., Jr. Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
Returning to Texas after the close of the war, he resumed work upon his father's farm. December 20, 1867, he married Miss Jane Singleton, of Harris county, and the same year settled on a farm thirteen miles east of Houston, where for sixteen years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits.
In November, 1884, he was elected Assessor of Harris county, and, the duties of this office requiring his constant presence at the county seat, he moved to Houston, and has since resided in this city. In 1886 he was not re-elected to the office, but was in 1888, and has ever since then held the position by successive re-elections. Previous to his first election to this place he had been Deputy Sheriff of the county and Constable of the precinct in which he lived, and altogether he has served the people in one capacity or another for twelve or fifteen years. He is a careful, painstaking and impartial officer, and on account of his accurate knowledge of values and extensive acquaintance, both with the people and with the country, he has made a most acceptable Assessor, and his popularity has been attested by his frequent re-elections and the high terms of praise in which all classes of people speak of him. Of course, in his political views he is a Democrat; and, as often as the question of politics has entered into any election at which he has been a candidate, he has submitted his claims to the decision of his party. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Sampson Lodge, No. 231, at Lynchburg, Harris county, and has represented this body at the Grand Lodge.
By his marriage Mr. McKinney connected himself with one of the oldest families of this county, his father-in-law, James W. Singleton, moving to this county as early as 1826. Mrs. McKinney was born and reared in this county. The children in their family are: Mary F., the wife of R. E. Dunks, of Crosby, this county; Edna, now Mrs. H. B. Cline, of Houston; Georgia F., who married Henry M. Curtin, of Houston; Gilbert A.; and Albert W., Jr. Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
A. W. McKinney, the present Assessor of Harris county, was born in Alexandria, Rapides parish, Louisiania, August 15, 1842, and is a son of' Mercer and Sophronia McKinney. Albert W. McKinney was brought to Harris county by his parents in 1856. His early youth was spent on the farm and in the public schools of this county until the opening of the late war. He enlisted in the Confederate service when the first call was made for troops, entering a company called the "Galveston Rifles,'' commanded by Captain McKeen, with which he served only a short time, when he joined Company K, in Colonel E. B. Nicols' regiment, for six months. At the expiration of this time he re-entered the service as a member of Company B, Twenty-fourth Regiment of Texas Dismounted Cavalry, with which he served until February, 1864, and then he was transferred to the Texas Rangers, and remained with this celebrated command until the close of the war. He was captured at Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863, and was held in prison at Camp Butler, near Springfield, Illinois, until April following, when he was exchanged at City Point, Virginia. Arriving at Richmond, he was ordered to join the Army of Tennessee, and after entering this he was in the engagements at MacLemore's Cove, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, Dalton, Calhoun, Resaca, Golgotha Church, New Hope Church, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy's Station, Decatur (Alabama), Columbia, Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville (Tennessee), and winding up at Bentonville, North Carolina, where the army under Joseph E. Johnston, to which he then belonged, surrendered to General Sherman. Through all this army experience Mr. McKinney passed, faithfully performing the soldier's duty, as a private, and received but one wound, and that a slight one, in the flesh only, at Arkansas Post.
Returning to Texas after the close of the war, he resumed work upon his father's farm. December 20, 1867, he married Miss Jane Singleton, of Harris county, and the same year settled on a farm thirteen miles east of Houston, where for sixteen years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits.
In November, 1884, he was elected Assessor of Harris county, and, the duties of this office requiring his constant presence at the county seat, he moved to Houston, and has since resided in this city. In 1886 he was not re-elected to the office, but was in 1888, and has ever since then held the position by successive re-elections. Previous to his first election to this place he had been Deputy Sheriff of the county and Constable of the precinct in which he lived, and altogether he has served the people in one capacity or another for twelve or fifteen years. He is a careful, painstaking and impartial officer, and on account of his accurate knowledge of values and extensive acquaintance, both with the people and with the country, he has made a most acceptable Assessor, and his popularity has been attested by his frequent re-elections and the high terms of praise in which all classes of people speak of him. Of course, in his political views he is a Democrat; and, as often as the question of politics has entered into any election at which he has been a candidate, he has submitted his claims to the decision of his party. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Sampson Lodge, No. 231, at Lynchburg, Harris county, and has represented this body at the Grand Lodge.
By his marriage Mr. McKinney connected himself with one of the oldest families of this county, his father-in-law, James W. Singleton, moving to this county as early as 1826. Mrs. McKinney was born and reared in this county. The children in their family are: Mary F., the wife of R. E. Dunks, of Crosby, this county; Edna, now Mrs. H. B. Cline, of Houston; Georgia F., who married Henry M. Curtin, of Houston; Gilbert A.; and Albert W., Jr. Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
Returning to Texas after the close of the war, he resumed work upon his father's farm. December 20, 1867, he married Miss Jane Singleton, of Harris county, and the same year settled on a farm thirteen miles east of Houston, where for sixteen years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits.
In November, 1884, he was elected Assessor of Harris county, and, the duties of this office requiring his constant presence at the county seat, he moved to Houston, and has since resided in this city. In 1886 he was not re-elected to the office, but was in 1888, and has ever since then held the position by successive re-elections. Previous to his first election to this place he had been Deputy Sheriff of the county and Constable of the precinct in which he lived, and altogether he has served the people in one capacity or another for twelve or fifteen years. He is a careful, painstaking and impartial officer, and on account of his accurate knowledge of values and extensive acquaintance, both with the people and with the country, he has made a most acceptable Assessor, and his popularity has been attested by his frequent re-elections and the high terms of praise in which all classes of people speak of him. Of course, in his political views he is a Democrat; and, as often as the question of politics has entered into any election at which he has been a candidate, he has submitted his claims to the decision of his party. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Sampson Lodge, No. 231, at Lynchburg, Harris county, and has represented this body at the Grand Lodge.
By his marriage Mr. McKinney connected himself with one of the oldest families of this county, his father-in-law, James W. Singleton, moving to this county as early as 1826. Mrs. McKinney was born and reared in this county. The children in their family are: Mary F., the wife of R. E. Dunks, of Crosby, this county; Edna, now Mrs. H. B. Cline, of Houston; Georgia F., who married Henry M. Curtin, of Houston; Gilbert A.; and Albert W., Jr. Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
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