BIOS: Francis A. McCally of Bracken Co., KY

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Presented with permission of the Kansas Collection (www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll).
Text transcribed by volunteer Kathryn Cone. Email: susancs@prodigy.net .

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"FRANCIS M. McCALLY, contractor for brick and stone work, was born in Lewis County, W.
Va., in 1842. Here he learned the trade of stone mason,and for some years followed the
same as a journeyman in Bracken County,Ky. He came to Ottawa March 10, 1870, and was
for five years employed by R. W. Crosett, contractor for mason work, and in 1875
embarked in his present business. He does quite an extensive business in his line,
employing at times from twenty to forty-five men, and to facilitate the work in
erecting buildings uses the Sweetland Lightning Elevator for hoisting material, etc.
Among the many buildings Mr. McCally has erected here are the Jefferies Brick Block,
"Ober" Brick Block, Ottawa Opera House, and the handsome stone block known as the
Headquarters. He is the leading man in this business in the City of Ottawa."


Source: "William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas FRANKLIN COUNTY", Part 8
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES (HALEY - POTTERF).

http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/books/cutler/franklin/franklin-co-p8.html

KANSAS COLLECTION BOOKS William G. Cutler's was first published in 1883 by A. T.
Andreas, Chicago, IL. "Presented with permission of the Kansas Collection
(www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll). Text transcribed by volunteer Kathryn Cone." **