four are now living: Mrs. Edith McKinney; Mortimer, who is associated with his father in the bakery; J. W., a resident of Centertown, Missouri; and Fannie, wife of J. B. Watson, a hardware merchant of Barry. Mr. Robb is a republican in his political views, while fraternally he is connected with the Grand Army of the Republic and with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, having been affiliated with the latter for twenty-nine years.      Dr. and Mrs. McKinney have one child, Ruth Marie, born February 21, 1901. The Doctor votes with the republican party and has been a member of the city council for two years, exercising his official prerogatives in support of all progressive public measures. He belongs to Barry lodge, No. 34, A. F. & A. M., also the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and to the Knights of Pythias fraternity, the Modern Woodmen camp and the Pike County Mutual Association. Along professional lines he is connected with the Morgan County Dental Society, which includes five counties within its membership, and has been honored with the office of vice president. He is also a member of the State Dental Society. He began preparation for the profession in 1894 and added to his knowledge of the great scientific principles which underly the work, natural mechanical skill and ability. The dental profession is unique in that it demands three distinct qualifications for success --strong mentality for the mastery of the science, mechanical ingenuity for the operating room, and keen business discernment for the management of the financial part of the business. In all Dr. McKinney is well equipped and his business has constantly grown in extent and importance.                                                     _______________                                                  CHARLES  B.  GOSE         Charles B. Gose, a dealer in general merchandise at Kinderhook, where for twenty-five years he has been engaged in business so that his name is inseparably interwoven with the history of commercial activity in the village and who is also capably carrying on farming interests, was born in Pike county on the 4th of September, 1837, and a son of John and Eliza J. (Bickley) Gose. The father was born in Russell county, Virginia, and was reared to the life of a farmer in his native state. He was married there in March, 1835, to Eliza J. Bickley, also a native of the Old Dominion. Thirty days after their marriage they started for Pike county, Illinois, and came overland, being a long time upon the way, but eventually reaching their destination in safety. They located on the northwest corner of section 14, Kinderhook township, securing three hundred acres of land of which Charles B. Goss now owns sixty-eight acres besides other property amounting to four hundred acres. On the father's land a story and a half log house and a good barn already been built and in this primitive pioneer home the family began their life in the middle west. The father cultivated and developed new land, the demanded activity making his life a strenuous one. In the midst of a busy and energetic career he passed away, dying in October, 1847, when yet in the prime of life. His widow long survived him and was called to her final rest on the 7th of January, 1894. In their family were four children, three sons and a daughter: Abel A., who was born in June, 1836; Charles B., of this review; George C., born in November, 1839; and Frances E., the widow of Dr. C. C. Sprague, and a resident of Kansas City, Missouri. The parents were both members of the Methodist church.      Charles B. GOSE was educated in the old stone schoolhouse near his father's home in Pike county. This structure replaced one of the primitive log schoolhouses of pioneer times which had been destroyed by fire. He mastered the common branches of English learning and when still quite young started out in life on his own account, being left fatherless at the age of ten years. He remained at home until twenty-six years of age, when he began farming on his own account, following that calling until March, 1881. He then entered into partnership with J. C. Colvin in a general store at Kinderhook, the relation being maintained for two years, after which he purchased Mr. Colvin's interest and has since successfully carried on business alone. He has