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Title: A history of northeast Missouri
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, Walter, 1864- , ed
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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McKee. Having reached the limit of human lifeas indicated by the psalmist, and being still in active health and vigorof both body and mind; having passed along the rough and stony path-way of a personal and professional career to a condition of comfort ina worldly way and distinction among his fellows in his profession andall the other relations of life; having started his struggle for advance-ment ^vith little or nothing in the form of money capital, and havingmade his way forward solely through his own ability and efforts, unas-sisted by the favors of fortune or adventitious circumstances, and livingnow universally admired and esteemed wherever he is known, JudgeEdwin R. McKee of Memphis, Scotland county, presents in his recordan unusually interesting theme for the pen of the biogi-apher, and oneit will be profitable to review for the benefit of the rising generation,no member of which can but be moved to greater exertions by the forceof the example thus set forth into public view.
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€,/t-.f^^-7Coc. HISTORY OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI 1369 Judge McKee was born in Knox county, Illinois, on August 31, 1842,and is a son of Thomas and Maria (Rice) McKee, the former born inHarrison county, Indiana, on August 22, 1810, and the latter in Craw-ford county, Indiana, on February 4, 1814. The father was a son ofThomas McKee, a scion of Scotch ancestry and a pioneer in Kentucky,where he was an intimate associate and companion of Daniel Boone,and worked, hunted and dared death with that resolute man for manyyears. His son Thomas, the father of the judge, was a very studious boyand youth and became a widely informed man. In 1821 an olderbrother moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, and in 1824 to Schuylercounty in that state. He sent back home glowing accounts of thepromise and wealth of opportunity of the new region in which he lived,and in 1827 Thomas, then a youth of seventeen, determined to seekhis own fortune somewhere in the same region. In November, 1828,he arrived in Knox cou

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