The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1911-12-22
Services for A. D. MckinIay
Held Wednesday.
FOUR LODGES ESCORT REMAINS
TO LAST RESTING PLACE,
Impressive Services Held in Dream
land Under Direction of the Elks
Lodge.

AC ACIidiHS VI "A. -. NChlnldy, VINO
was killed in a locomotive explosion
on Wednesday near Meacham, Oregon,
were laid to rest in the Twin Falls
cemetery Wednesday of this week with
signal honors by the four lodges of
which he had been a member during
his life. The burial ceremony held in
the Dreamland was in charge of the
Elks lodge, and conducted according
to their ritual by the following mem
bers: A. N. Sprague, j. l.. Buttolph
II. Z. Seaton, H. e. Deiss, j. l.. Dill
worth, Carl Hahn, Frank Benoit and J.
u. Bradley. p. H. Smith and C. D.
THOMAS also delivered eulogies on the
life OF the deceased brother.
The funeral cortege was escorted to
the cemetery by members of the Elks,
Eagles and l. 0. o. f. Encampment of
Twin Falls, and the Subordinate |. O.
O., F. lodge of Filler.
The following obituary was read by
G. D. Thomas at the services, which
give a brief history of one of the old
pioneers not only of this county but Of
the state:
Alexander D. McKinlay, was born
February %, 1852, at Turkey River,
Iowa, and died near LaGrande, Oregon,
DSHSAiOCI Ii, IcII.
He came to Idaho in 1S7S and first
settled near Grangeville in Idaho
county, where he was engaged in farm
ing and stockraising. From there he
moved to Wallace, Shoshone county.
Idaho, in 1885. During his life time
he has been active in politics and has
had a great Influence in moulding the
destinies of this state. While in Wal
lace he was elected probate judge for
Shoshone county, and filled the office
with honor to himself and credit to his
county. He was member of the city
council of the city of Wallace and
chairman of the street committee, and
very largely through his efforts Wal
lace completed the best sewer system
in northern Idaho. He was elected to
the legislature from Shoshone county
in 1902, and was reelected in 1904.
In 1906 he moved to Twin Falls to
engage in farming and was honored by
the people of his new home, and in
1908 was elected state representative
from Twin Falls county. All of these
offices he filled with credit, and he
was always faithful to his political
promises, and in this respect made
many friends and kept them.
To know Alex was to love him. In
all my knowledge of him, covering
ten years of his life, I never heard a
man who knew him we'll to speak i'll
of him. He has been both father
and mother to his family of four chill
dren, his wife having died when they
were mere infants. In raising these
children to manhood and womanhood
he gave them the advantage of the bes,
training the schools of idaho afforded.
Is I.,o o%,H, ,T 1No
University of Idaho and one is 2 sra-
duate of the Ann Arbor School of Law
All of the children have been an honor
to their father, and in their lives have
been a credit to the training he gave
them.
He also leaves a wife, an excellent,
splendid woman whom-although she
has been with us but short time-we
have learned to love and respect, and
during the last few years of our hrcth
er's life, she cast over him a great in
fluence for good We join with the
wife and family in their sorrow over
the loss of our dear brother.
Brother McKinlay was probably the
best known man in Twin Falls coun-
ty-he having travelled extensively
throughout the county, being good
mixer and forming many happy ac-
uuaintances. He was credit to any
community in which he lived; his life
was filled with good works; but he
was a man who made no parade OF his
friends and very few knew of the big,
noble heart that beat in his bosom. He
was generous, true-hearted, noble in
thought and deed, and strictly honest
in all of his dealings. He was charit-
able in the larger meaning OF the
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charitable to those who spoke Ill Of
him. charitable to those who had deal
ings with him; he was charitable in
his gifts, and being man that had
been blessed by worldly goods, he
gave freely, yet-in keeping with the
mamie never let any one know OF
these gifts The last act OF Brother
n n af1 16adRa tho IhAEa=
ddv before he died, was to propose q