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Transcribed from "An Illustrated History of The Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties, State of Washington",  published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.

     JOHN McINNIS conducts a livery business in Harrington.  He was born in Ontario, Canada, March 17, 1871.  He was educated in the public schools of Canada, and came to Lincoln county in the fall of 1895.  He went to Davenport, where he worked for his brother for three years, then purchased a livery stable in Reardan, which he managed for one year then sold it to engage in a similar business in Harrington.  His brother, Alexander, has always been a partner with him in business.  After coming to this city in 1900 the brothers rented a livery barn for a time and started in business on a small scale, but later they purchased a lot and erected their own building, seventy by ninety-five feet in dimensions, in which they now carry on the leading livery business of the town.  They keep a complete line of vehicles, are well supplied with horses, and also run a feed and sale business.  They carry the mail to Earl postoffice, and are proprietors of the Harrington-Davenport stage.  Their firm style is McInnis Brothers.  Our subject owns a good home and some choice property in town and is in a generally prosperous condition.
     The parents of Mr. McInnis were Donald and Margaret (McDonald) McInnis, the former having died in 1902, in his seventieth year, and the latter of whom is still living in Canada, aged sixty-five years.  Both were born in Ontario.  The brothers of Mr. McInnis are: Donald, Mack, Hugh, Neil and Alexander.  One sister, Catherine, is dead.
     On December 14, 1899, occurred the marriage of Mr. McInnis and Catherine Goddard, who was born in Iowa and who came to Lincoln county with her parents twelve years since.  Her father is Benjamin and her mother Anna Goddard, both now living in Davenport.
     Mr. and Mrs. McInnis have one child, Margarette G. McInnis.
 


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