Will County IL Archives Biographies.....McKeown, James A 
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Author: Past & Present Will County, 1907

James A. McKeown, of the firm of Donahoe, McNaughton & McKeown, attorneys at 
law of Joliet, was born in Kendall county, Illinois, June 9, 1871, his parents 
being Hugh and Mary A. (Kavanaugh) McKeown, the former a native of Belfast, 
Ireland, and the latter of Queens county, Ireland. About 1840 Hugh McKeown 
came to the United States and settled in Kendall county, Illinois. He was also 
a resident of Will county for several years and followed the occupation of 
farming as a life work, but both he and his wife are now deceased. In their 
family were three children: Mrs. Martin McCarthy, living on a farm in Kansas; 
John A., a lawyer of the Chicago bar; and James A. The last named was reared 
upon a farm and attended the country schools. He took up the study of law in 
1895 and was admitted to the bar in 1898, but prior to this time he was 
employed in the wire mills of Joliet and afterward learned the barbers trade. 
He pursued his legal studies during his leisure hours while thus providing for 
his own support and he began the practice of his profession in 1899. He is now 
a member of one of the most important law firms of this section of the state, 
with which he has been identified since 1903. In the same year he was elected 
city attorney on the democratic ticket and served for one term. He is a member 
of the Knights of Pythias lodge and of the White Cross. On the 1st of January, 
1900, Mr. McKeown was married to Miss Mary M. Ohlhaver, a native of Centralia, 
Illinois, and they had two children, Ruth and James A., but both are now 
deceased. Mr. McKeown is a member of the Catholic church and his wife of the 
German Lutheran church.

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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