Résumé

Draftsman, J. Lister Holmes, Architect, Seattle, WA, 1926-1931. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1931, p. 1116.)

Military Service, US Army, Washington State National Guard, Battery B, Seattle, WA, 1927-c. 1939. McKinney joined the US Army National Guard on 11/15/1927 as a private, and was elevated to corporal by 05/06/1930. He attended officers’s training school and became a National Guard 2nd Lieutenant on 05/12/1930 and a 1st Lieutenant on 02/24/1934. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information: U.S., Select Military Registers, 1862-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data: United States Military Registers, 1902–1985. Salem, Oregon: Oregon State Library, accessed 10/27/2020.)

Architect, Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Seattle, WA, 1940. McKinney earned $2,500 per year in 1940, according to the US Census. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: m-t0627-04382; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 40-294, accessed 10/27/2020.)

Designer, George W. Stoddard, Architect, Seattle, WA, 1933-1935.

Principal, Waldo E. McKinney, Architect, Seattle, WA, 1935-1940, 1947-1950.

Service in the United States Army, 1940-1945.

Designer, Bain, Overturf, Turner and Associates, 1945-1947.

Architect, Naramore, Bain, Brady and Johanson (NBBJ), Architects, Seattle, WA, c. 1951-1959. The Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1951,indicated that McKinney worked as a draftsman, but did not list the architectural firm. The Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1953, indicated that McKinney worked as a draftsman at NBBJ. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1953, p. 913.)

High School/College

Coursework, Longfellow School, Seattle, WA, 1918.

Graduate, Broadway High School, Seattle, WA, 1922. He attended Broadway for his junior and senior years. In his junior year, he participated in the boys' club, while in his senior year, he joined the student council, track team, boys' club and science club.

B.Arch., University of Washington (UW), Seattle, WA, 1926. He appears to have excelled at the UW in architecture.

College Awards

Recipient, University of Washington, Bebb Prize Design Competition, 1st Prize, 1926. McKinney won the Bebb Prize for his design for a "Civic Art Gallery."

Relocation

Waldo E. McKinney was likely born in in the 8th Civil District of Smith County, Tennessee, in the east-central part of the county, just north of Chestnut Mound. His family moved to Seattle, WA, by 1909 or 1910. Waldo's younger brother, Theodore, had been born in TN in 1908, while another brother, Leslie, had been born in Seattle by 1911. In 1910, McKinney’s parents and siblings lived at 816 28th Avenue in Seattle, WA. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Seattle Ward 3, King, Washington; Roll: T624_1658; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0087; FHL microfilm: 1375671, accessed 10/27/2020.)

The McKinneys had moved to 1613 24th Avenue by 1920. They owned this residence but paid on a mortgage for it. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation: Year: 1920; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: T625_1929; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 251, accessed 10/27/2020.)

He and his wife, Esther, lived at 8203 Wallingford Avenue in 1930 and 1931. According to the 1930 US Census, their neighbor at 8207 August Bense, (born c. 1866 in Germany), was a carpenter. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Page: 17A; Enumeration District: 0006; FHL microfilm: 2342225, accessed 10/27/2020 and Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1930, p. 1138.)

The McKinneys dwelled at 3231 Mount Baker Boulevard in 1935, although they may have moved in that year. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1935, p. 1022.)

The 1940 US Census indicated that McKinney and his family resided at 3245 36th Avenue South in Seattle. They owned their own house, estimated to have a value of $4,000 at that time. They had lived at this address since at least 1935. The household consisted of Waldo, Esther, their two children, and her sister, Josephine. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: m-t0627-04382; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 40-294, accessed 10/27/2020.)

During the 1950s, Waldo E. McKinney lived with his wife, Esther at 1913 31st Avenue South in Seattle. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1951, p. 853, and Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1958, p. 1007.) The Seattle City Directory, 1960, listed the widowed Esther's address as 1915 31st Avenue South. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1960, p. 1104)

The architect died in Seattle on 05/17/1959, at the age of 56. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information: Washington, Select Death Certificates, 1907-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, accessed 10/27/2020.)

Parents

His father was Hugh McKinney, (born 05/30/1880 in Monroe County, KY-d. 1961 in King County, WA), his mother, Alice Glover, (born 02/18/1878 in TN-d. 08/27/1925 in Smith County, TN). They wed on 03/09/1902 in Smith County, TN, possibly in Carthage, the county capital. Hugh's family farmed acreage in Smith County in 1900. He was one of eight children, of whom five were alive in 1900. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation, Year: 1900; Census Place: Civil District 8, Smith, Tennessee; Page: 2; Enumeration District: 0097; FHL microfilm: 1241600, accessed 10/27/2020.)

Alice's family also farmed in 1900, also in Civil District #8 of Smith County. Her parents, Newton Harrison Glover (born c. 01/1841 in TN), and Nancy Inez Bellar, (born c. 04/1845 in TN), who married in 1861, had had ten children, eight of whom survived in 1900. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation: Source number: 9138.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: JDM, Source Information: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004, accessed 10/27/2020 and See Ancestry.com, Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Civil District 8, Smith, Tennessee; Page: 1; Enumeration District: 0097; FHL microfilm: 1241600, accessed 10/27/2020.)

In 1910, Hugh McKinney worked as a street-car conductor, probably for the Seattle Electric Railway Company in Seattle, WA. Alice McKinney looked after the household and raised three children by 1910. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Seattle Ward 3, King, Washington; Roll: T624_1658; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0087; FHL microfilm: 1375671, accessed 10/27/2020.) She had had two more children as inventoried in the US Census of 1920. Hugh was listed as an "instructor" with the "city electric," likely the Seattle Electric Railway Company, which was purchased by the City of Seattle in 1918. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation: Year: 1920; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: T625_1929; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 251, accessed 10/27/2020.)

After Alice's death in 1925, Hugh married again twice, first, to Nannie B. Carr, on 07/22/1929and, again,on 11/14/1932 to Margaret M. Cordell. (See Pierce County Auditor, Marriage Records, 1876-1947; 1984-Present - Hugh Mckinney - N B Carr,Pierce County Auditor, Marriage Records, 1876-1947; 1984-Present, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://digitalarchives.wa.gov, accessed 10/27/2020 and King County Marriage Records, 1855-Present - Hugh Mckinney - Margaret M Cordell, King County Marriage Records, 1855-Present, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://digitalarchives.wa.gov, 10/27/2020.) It appears that the marriage to Nannie Carr ended in 1931 or 1932, as she remarried on 05/30/1932 to Edward Meyer. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington Marriage Records, 1854-2013; Reference Number: kingcoarchmcvol39_116, accessed 10/27/2020.) In 1934, Hugh and Margaret lived at 2321 14th Avenue South in Seattle. (SeeSeattle, Washington, City Directory, 1934, p. 983.)

On 04/25/1942, Hugh McKinneycontinued to work for the City of Seattle transit system, although the city was in the process of dismantling its municipal streetcar line, beginning in 1941. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation: The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147; Box or Roll Number: 127, accessed 10/27/2020.) He lived in Seattle until 1961.

His siblings included Theodore A. McKinney, (born c. 1906 in TN), Leslie McKinney, (born c. 1908 in TN), Rodney Smith McKinney (born c. 1913 in Seattle, WA), and Lililan McKinney, (born c. 1916 in Seattle, WA).

Lillian McKinney married Elmer Douglas Lince on 03/17/1941 in Anaconda, MT. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation: Montana State Historical Society; Helena, Montana; Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950, accessed 10/27/2020.)

Spouse

He wed Esther Arline Victoria Lindros, (born 01/09/1902 in Chicago, IL-d. 09/21/1987 in Seattle, WA), on 08/21/1929 in the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Seattle, WA. Josephine Lindros, (born c. 1905 in Chicago, IL), Esther's sister, and Parnell Campbell served as witnesses. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation: Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington Marriage Records, 1854-2013; Reference Number: kingcoarchmcvol27_431 accessed 10/27/2020.)

Esther's parents were Magnus Lindros, (born c. 1872 in Sweden-d. 06/24/1949 in Seattle, WA), and Carrie Bjornsen, (Anglicized to "Benson," born c. 1880 in Norway-d. 02/04/1936 in Seattle, WA).

Children

He and Esther had two children: a son, Richard Emerson McKinney (born 05/04/1931 in Seattle, WA-d. 06/05/2005 in AZ) and a daughter, Carolyn McKinney (born c. 1937 in Seattle, WA).

Carolyn attended Franklin High School in Seattle (c. 1952).

Biographical Notes

Prior to 10/27/2020, PCAD mistakenly had Waldo McKinney's last name as "McKee." WIlliam Emerson McKinney went by the first name "Waldo."

• Seattle, WA (Architect's Death)
  Seattle, WA 98104

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