born. In 1844 they removed to Adams county, Illinois, where the farmer rented a farm for two years and then purchased the property which was located in Beverly township. There he carried on general agricultural pursuits until within a few years of his death, his last days, however, being spent in honorable retirement from further labor. He made his home with his children and died in Adams county in 1886. Both he and his wife were earnest and upright Christian people, holding membership in the Lutheran church, in which faith they had been reared. In their family were four children and the mother is still living, now making her home with her son John.      It was during his infancy that John Weber was taken to Adams county, Illinois, where he was reared in the parental home amid pioneer scenes and environments. He attended school in a primitive frame building where the seats were made of split logs resting upon wooden pins. He began work upon the farm when a small boy and at the age of twenty-one years he left home and turned his attention to the profession of teaching, which he followed for two terms. He afterward clerked for one season in a store and later he opened an establishment of his own in Kingston, where he engaged in business for two years. At the end of that time he sold out there and with his brother-in-law purchased the flour mill in that town. Six years later he disposed of his interest in the mill and was engaged in teaching through two terms of school.      In June, 1877, Mr. Weber came to Barry and in the fall of that year purchased the Empire House, which he managed for three years. After disposing of his hotel interests he traveled for a few months in the west and on his return purchased a grocery store in Barry, which he conducted for six years. He then sold out and became proprietor of a warehouse, being thus identified with the business interests of the city for some time, while at the present writing he is receiver for the Exchange Bank.      Mr. Weber was married in 1867 to Miss Rosa Perkins, a native of Adams county, Illinois, and a daughter of B. C. and Isabel (High) Perkins. Unto this union have been born four children: Ralph K., Harry, Nettie and Cora. In his political views Mr. Weber is a republican and for six years served as a member of the city council. He has also been a member of the school board and was township supervisor of Barry township.                                                       _____________                                               JOHN G. McKINNEY,  M. D.        Dr. John G. McKinney, who in former years, was actively engaged in the general practice of medicine, but now confines his attention largely to office and consultation practice in Barry, is classed with the prominent and representative citizens of Pike county, the qualities of his manhood, aside from his professional ability, winning for him public regard and favor. A native of Ohio, he was born in Cadiz, Harrison county, December 27, 1835. The family is supposed to be of Scotch lineage. It is definitely known that the great-grandfather was a sea captain, who for some years resided on the Isle of Man. He was lost at sea with his ship. His son, George McKinney, however, grandfather of our subject, was born in Ireland and spent the days of his boyhood and youth in that county. He was also married on the Green Isle of Erin and with his first wife came to the United States, establishing his home in Harrison county, Ohio, at an early epoch in its history, remaining a resident of that locality up to the time of his demise. He was a tailor by trade. By his first marriage he had one son, William, and by his second marriage had four sons who reached adult age, John, George, Fryar and James.      The last named was the father of Dr. McKinney of this review. He was probably born in Ohio, and at all events he spent the period of his youth in that state, where he learned and followed the trade of a carpenter and joiner, conducting business at Cadiz until 1837, when he emigrated westward to Illinois, accompanied by his wife and five children. The journey was made by way of the Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois river, and they landed at Phillips' ferry, the present size of Valley City. James McKinney chose as a location a tract of land about a mile southwest of Griggsville, which at that time was a small village