"An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties." Interstate Publishing Company, 1906. p. 593. PETER McKINNON is one of the farmers on the outskirts of Mount Vernon, who in a quiet way is an exemplar of what may be accomplished in a few years by energy and hard work in a new country. Mr. McKinnon was born in Nova Scotia in 1847, of Scotch ancestry. His father, Henry McKinnon, a Nova Scotian farmer, died in 1885. Mrs. Lexie (McDonald) McKinnon was a native of Scotland, and is now hale and hearty at the advanced age of ninety years. Of her eight children Peter is third in order of birth. Peter McKinnon attended the schools of Nova Scotia until he was twelve years of age, when he left home apprenticed to learn the trade of blacksmith. On becoming master, he went to work at blacksmithing for a railroad and gradually made his way to Montreal, where he remained for three years. At Tarribone he put in another three years at his trade, and in 1885 he came to Washington and settled at Mount Vernon, in a short time purchasing of James H. Moores a tract of twenty acres of land. He has cleared it and put it all under cultivation, making his home there. When not needed on the farm, he employs himself at his trade in different parts of the nearby country. In 1877 Mr. McKinnon, while at Montreal, married Miss Satira J. Moores, daughter of Nathaniel Moores and sister of James H. and Nathaniel Moores, Jr., who is now living near Mount Vernon. The elder Moores was a native of Miramichi, New Brunswick, but early in life settled in Quebec. His wife, Margaret A. Sutherland, a native of Nashwack, New Brunswick, was the mother of thirteen children. Mrs. McKinnon was born in New Brunswick in 1860 and educated in the schools of that province. She was married at the age of twenty-seven and is the mother of four children, Henry, Margaret, Harvey and Daniel. In church circles, Mr. McKinnon is a Baptist and in politics a Republican. On his twenty-acre farm he has twenty head of cattle and a team of horses for farm work. He has the proverbial thrift of the Scotch, from whom he is descended, and though his place is not large, he is in good circumstances and enjoys the confidence and respect of all who know him. ******************* Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in May 2008 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.