Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....McKoin, W. H. 1880 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  W. H. McKoin, proprietor of the Model laundry, Olathe, Kan., is a native son
of Johnson county. He was born in Lexington township, December 20, 1880, and is
a son of J. J. and Susan (Utterback) McKoin, natives of old Kentucky. J. J.
McKoin was born in Lexington and in 1857, came to Kansas with his parents and
located at Spring Hill. He was one of the pioneer school teachers of Johnson
county. He read law and after being admitted to the bar practised for several
years, and served one term as county attorney of Johnson county. In 1893 he was
appointed Indian agent under President Cleveland's second administration and
served in that capacity at a number of different agencies in the West and
Southwest until 1896 when the administration changed and Mr. McKoin's successor
was appointed. He then returned to Olathe where he now resides, and is one of
the honored pioneers of Johnson county. His wife died several years ago and he
is now living retired. He has been a lifelong Democrat and has been active in
his party organization and has helped fight the battles of Democracy for over
half centry. To J. J. and Susan (Utterback) McKoin were born three children and
W. H., whose name introduces this sketch, is the only surveyor. W. H. McKoin
attended the public schools of Olathe and later attended the University of New
Mexico two years and also spent two years at Kansas University at Lawrence. He
then entered the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad Company in the capacity of
clerk in the superintendent's office at Needles, Calif., and after remaining
there about one year, in 1899, he took a position as fireman on the Arizona
division of the Santa Fe, and ran between Needles and Bakersfield, Calif., and
Los Angeles, and later he was promoted to engineer, shortly after reaching his
twenty-first year, and ran a locomotive on the Arizona division of the Santa Fe
about four years. In 1896 he was transferred to the Mountain division of the
same railroad and ran from La Junta to Raton for a year and during the panic of
1907 he was laid off. He then came to Olathe and bought the laundry plant which
is known as the Model laundry. This is the best equipped laundry in Johnson
county. It is a substantial one-story brick structure, located at 132 South
Cherry Street, Olathe, and is equipped with all modern machinery. The building
is 23x109 feet, and when running full capacity Mr. McKoin employs sixteen
operators. Mr. McKoin was united in marriage July 28, 1896, to Miss Inez
Hancock, of 

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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