William McKinlay was a prosperous tailor and state legislator in Charleston, South Carolina.
[3] He and Archibald owned the McKinlay Building on Market Street and other properties.
[5] He was elected a delegate to the 1868 South Carolina Constitutional Convention in Charleston.
[1] He purchased slaves to allow them to live freely even as the law recognized them as his property.
At one point the city posted the sale a girl that was his property to satisfy taxes owed.