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It is great to hear from a fellow McKillip researcher.
I sent away to the Blair County Genealogical Society in Hollidaysburg and had them do a quick research for me.
I was fortunate to go there once...and the people are so helpful.
Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County Pensylvania by Jesse C. Sell pub. 1911
Page 505 - 506
William McKillip, a representative business man of Hollidaysburg, Pa., conducting a large general store at No. 324 Allegheny Street, came here and embarked in his present successful enterprise in May, 1891. He was born February 27, 1850, in the same log house on the old homestead farm situated in Frankstown Township, Blair County, Pa., in which his father came into the world and which was built by his grandfather, William McKillip.
David McKillip, father of the present bearer of the name of William McKillip was born in February, 1812, and died in September, 1884. His father was William McKillip, who came to Pennsylvania from Ireland and entered the first of his land in Frankstown Township, Blair County, in 1792. To the original tract he kept adding until he had acquired considerable property, divided into two farms. He built first a cabin on the lower place and later, after the building of the first turnpike in the township, a substantial log house took the place of the cabin, and still later a better house after the completion of the Philadelphia and Pittsburg turnpike road, and this, in turn, was supplanted by a commodious brick residence put up by his grandson and namesake. McKillip came into possession of the home farm and passed his life there. He married Jane Elliott, who died in 1872, at the age of fifty-seven years. She was a daughter of George Elliott, one of the old residents of Frankstown Township. Seven children were born to this marriage, three of who survived into mature years, and of these William is the only survivor. Ruth and Samuel Davis were the others and the former was the wife of J.L. Moore of Altoona.
William McKillip spent a busy and useful boyhood on the home farm and attended the district schools. He remained with his father until he was twenty-two years of age and then entered the employ of Wood, Morrell & Co., at Frankstown, Pa., as a clerk, and remained with that firm for six years later being transferred to Henrietta, where they had a store. In the spring of 1891 he came to Hollidaysburg and embarked in a general mercantile business, putting in a fine stock of first class goods and establishing a high standard of excellence in the same, to which he has adhered ever ever since. Mr. McKillip still owns the old homestead of 144 acres, situated in Frankstown Township. and another farm of 145 acres. He is a Republican and has been more or less active in politics ever since locating a Hollildaysburg, and at one time was elected burgess but subsequently resigned the office.
On April 2, 1878, Mr. McKillip was married to Miss Mary E. Cunningham, a daughter of the late George W. and Rebecca (Jones) Cunningham and they have three children: Homer C., Rebecca M., and Blair L.. Homer C. McKillip was educated at Juniata College and in a business school at Altoona, after which he learned the machinist trade with the McLanahan-Stone Machine Company and is now employed in the air-brake department of the machine shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Altoona. He is now serving in his second year as tax collector, having been elected on the Republican ticket. Rebecca M. is a highly cultured and thoroughly educated and accomplished lady. She graduated from the High school and later from teh Williamsport Seminary, where she won a scholarship in the Woman's College at Baltimore, where she was subsequently graduated. Miss McKillip is now serving as secretary of the Y.M.C.A. at Pittsburg. Blair L. McKillip graduated from the Holly High School and spent one year at the Williamsburg Seminary and four years at Syracuse University at Syracuse N.Y., where he was graduated in mechanical engineering, and is no with the Westing house Company at Pittsburg.
Mr. McKillip has been identified with the Odd Fellows, Lodge No. 119, since 1871; belongs to the K.G. E., at Martinsburg; to Juniata Lodge No. 282, F. & A. M., at Hollidaysburg; the Artisans and the Heptasophs, both at Hollidaysburg. With his family he belongs to the Presbyterian Church.
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