Marshall-Atchison County KS Archives Biographies.....McAtee, William H. 1861 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

WILLIAM H. McATEE.

    William H. McAtee, one of the best-known farmers of St. Bridget township,
former trustee of that township and for years manager of the grain elevator at
Mina, is a native son of Kansas and has lived in this state all his life. He was
born in the city of Atchison on November 10, 1861, son of W. J. and Sarah A.
(Lancaster) McAtee, natives of Ohio, the former of whom was an honored veteran
of the Civil War, and who became substantial pioneer citizens of Marshall
county, where they made their home for many years.

    W. J. McAtee was but a boy when his parents, James McAtee and wife, moved
from Ohio to Missouri and in the latter state he spent his young manhood. There
his father died and the family later, in 1858, came to Kansas, settling on Elm
creek in this county, among the very earliest settlers in this part of the
state. In 1856 W. J. McAtee moved into Doniphan county and thence to Atchison,
where he was living when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted for service in the
Fourth Regiment, Missouri State Militia, and with that command saw considerable
active service during the war. In 1865 he returned to Atchison and with his
family moved to Marshall county and located on a farm in Elm Creek township,
where he remained until 1876, when he retired from the farm and moved to Blue
Rapids, where he made his home until 1881, when he returned to farming and made
his home on a farm in the Axtell neighborhood until 1887. ^n that year he
definitely retired from farming and moved to Horton, where he spent the rest of
his life, his death occurring in 1912, he then being seventy-six years of age.

    William H. McAtee was not yet four years of age when his parents moved from
Atchison to this county and he spent his boyhood on the home farm in Elm Creek
township, later moving with the family to Blue Rapids, where he completed his
schooling. When twenty-one years of age, in 1882, he began working on his own
account and rented a farm, on which, after his marriage in 1884, he established
his home and there he lived until 1903, when he took charge of the grain
elevator at Mina and was thus engaged until in July, 1915. In the meantime he
had bought the farm of one hundred and twenty acres in St. Bridget township, on
which he is now living, and had been improving and developing the same, and upon
his retirement from his management of the elevator moved to that farm, where he
and his family are now pleasantly and comfortably situated. Mr. McAtee built a
new house on the farm, a house of eight rooms, with bath and modern
conveniences, the dwelling being beautifully located on a hill and commanding a
fine view of the country for miles. His farm is otherwise well-improved and he
is regarded as one of the progressive farmers of that township. Mr. McAtee is a
Republican and for one term served the public as trustee of St. Bridget
township, rendering a valuable service in that connection.

    Mr. McAtee has been twice married. In 1884 he married Ada Williams, who died
on May 2, 1895, leaving two children, Claude, who is now operating the grain
elevator at Mina, and Mrs. Ida Packard, of St. Bridget township. In 1896 Mr.
McAtee married Lottie Packard, daughter of J. W. Packard, formerly of Marshall
county, now a resident of Enid, Oklahoma, and to this union nine children have
been born, Mrs. Vera Burton, of near Axtell, Frank, Cora, William, Loyal,
Howard, Chester, Iola and Anna, the latter of whom died in October, 1916. The
McAtees are members of the Baptist church and take a proper interest in church
work, as well as in the general social activities of the community in which they
live, and have ever been helpful factors in advancing all good works in that
community.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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