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Captain McKinley came up the Caloosahatchee on Captain Peter Nelson's boat "Spitfire" from Washington, D.C., where he had managed streetcar transportation. He established a citrus grove in Alva, Florida and put in a steam-powered irrigation system. He married Elizabeth English, who died in 1885. He moved across the river and lived with the English family for the rest of his life.