Clitts, a resident of New Canton, Illinois; Bertha M., the wife of Gust Attaberg, a resident of Keokuk, Iowa; Theodore F., at home; Harold F., living in Missouri; Viola, who is engaged in teaching school in Pittsfield township; Ivan, Charlotte and Jacob, all at home.      Mrs. Schedel now owns one hundred and sixty acres of fine and well improved land pleasantly situated about a mile and a half west of Pittsfield. She superintends her farming interests, the work of tilling the soil and raising stock being carried on there. She has a very nice home and good buildings upon the farm and in the control of her property has displayed excellent business ability and executive force. She is a member of the German Lutheran church and a most estimable lady. She proved to her husband a faithful helpmate and companion on life's journey, ably assisting him by her energy and capable management of the household affairs. In his political views Mr. Schedel was a democrat, but was without aspiration for public office, preferring to give his time and energies to his business affairs, and his industry and honorable dealing were the salient features in his success.                                                        ______________                                               GEORGE B. McKINNEY, D. D. S.        Dr. George B. McKinney, a dental practitioner of Barry, is a native of Adams county, Illinois, his birth having occurred there on the 21st of May, 1872. He is a son of John G. and Malinda (Vining) McKinney, who are presented elsewhere in this volume. After mastering the preliminary branches of learning he passed through successive grades of the Barry schools until he had completed the high-school course and later he spent one term as a student in the University of Illinois and afterward entered the Northwestern University at Chicago, matriculating as a student in the dental department. He completed the regular course there and was graduated in 1897 with the class of one hundred and thirty members. He had passed the state board examination in 1896 and entered upon active practice prior to his graduation. Following the completion of his university course he came to Barry, where he opened an office and has since remained in business. He has here purchased a lot on which he erected a brick office building, thirty by twenty-eight feet, containing six rooms and a hall. He has here an electric light plant and waterworks, also a furnace and compressed-air cylinder and the building is supplied with hot and cold water throughout. His is one of the most modern and best equipped dental parlors in the state of Illinois. He uses the latest improved scientific implements known to the profession and keeps in touch with the market advance that has been made in dentistry during the last few years. His work has given universal satisfaction and is his best advertisement for his patrons recommend him to others and his patronage is constantly growing.      In 1897 Dr. McKinney was married to Miss Edith Robb who was born in Griggsville, July 19, 1874, and is a daughter of J. J. and Elizabeth (Miller) Robb. Her father was born in 1835, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and was a son of David and Sarah (Wyte) Robb, both of whom were natives of the Keystone state and were of German descent. The father was educated in the public schools and throughout his life carried on farming. He came to Illinois in 1858, rented land and continued its cultivation until after the outbreak of the Civil war, when he responded to the country's call for aid, enlisting in the army in 1865 as a member of Company D, One hundred and Forty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which he served for five months in Tennessee. He was on detached duty along the Nashville Railroad and participated in no battles but took part in some skirmishes. Following the close of hostilities he returned to Pike county and settled in Griggsville, where the family had removed in the meantime. There he followed the trade of brick-laying for a time, continuing his residence there until 1877, when he removed to Barry, where he has since made his home. He conducted a billiard and pool room in the town until 1894 and since that time has been proprietor of a bakery. In 1858 he married Miss Elizabeth Miller, of Pike county, who was born in Pennsylvania and died here in January, 1898. They had eight children, of whom