Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....McPhee, William G. 1875 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

WILLIAM G. McPHEE.

    In financial circles of Brown county the name of William G. McPhee, cashier
of the State Bank of Evan, Minnesota, is well and favorably known. He was born
at the town of Home, Brown county, February 18, 1875, and is a son of Peter and
Elizabeth (Simpson) McPhee, both parents born in the province of Ontario,
Canada. There they spent their earlier years, the father working on a farm and
in the lumber camps until he was thirty years of age, when he left Canada, in
1873, coming to Brown county, Minnesota, where he bought eighty acres of land in
Home township, which he farmed for a period of thirty years, then purchased a
farm in Eden township of four hundred acres, and after living there for ten
years, engaging extensively in general farming, he retired from active life,
moving to Franklin, Minnesota, where he now resides. His family consisted of
seven children, four sons and three daughters, namely: William, Jessie,
Archibald, Edward, Mary, Roy and Sarah.

    William G. McPhee is the only member of his family now residing in Brown
county. He grew up on the home farm where he worked during the summer months,
and received his education in the public schools of Home township, leaving
school at the age of nineteen years and began teaching, which he followed five
years, then bought one hundred and twenty acres of land in Eden township, which
he farmed, teaching school during the winter months, continuing thus for three
years, then engaged in farming exclusively for five years, when he sold out and
removed to Sleepy Eye, engaging in business in that town for one year, after
which he removed, to Evan where he was a grain buyer for seven years, then
became associated with the State Bank of Evan as cashier, in 1914, which
position he still holds to the satisfaction of the stockholders and patrons.
This bank has a capital and surplus of seventeen thousand dollars, and did a
total business last year of one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. It is
rapidly growing, due in no small measure to the efforts of Mr. McPhee, who is
not only able but honest and faithful in the discharge of his duties.

     William G. McPhee was married in 1901 to Katherine Grimes, a daughter of
Edward and Mary Grimes, both natives of Ireland, from which country they came to
the United States in early life, and finally established their future home in
Brown county, Minnesota, where Mrs. McPhee was born, reared and educated. Her
parents were among the pioneers of Brown county, having settled there about the
year 1868. They had a family of seven children— three boys and four girls. Mr.
McPhee and wife have one child, Harold McPhee, twelve years old, who has
finished school at Evan and is now a student at Sleepy Eye.

     Politically, Mr. McPhee is a Democrat. He has been a justice of the peace,
also recorder of the town of Evan, was trustee of Eden township for two years,
giving entire satisfaction to the people in all these offices. He is a member of
the Catholic church at Sleepy Eye.


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Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana



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