Crawford County, Mo. Biographical Sketch - James M. Key
History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford, & Gasconade Counties,
Missouri. Goodspeed 1888. p. 1045.

James M. Key, a merchant of Steelville, was born in Crawford County
November 25, 1856, and is a son of William T. and
Catherine J. (Wheeling) Key, natives respectively of Crawford and
Washington Counties, Mo. The paternal grandfather came
from Kentucky, November 25, 1856 and is a son of William T. and Catherine
J. (Wheeling) Key, natives respectively of
Crawford and Washington Counties, Mo. The paternal grandfather came from
Kentucky while the maternal grandfather came
from Dublin, Ireland, and came to America when quite young.
William T. Key was a blacksmith and wagon-maker by trade, and also engaged
in merchandising. He died in 1884 at the age of
fifty-four years, being a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of
which Mrs. Key is a member. Of their five children,
three are living, one son being a jeweler at Willow Springs, Mo. James M.
Key was reared on a farm, received a limited
education, and when twenty-two years of age was engaged as a clerk in
Steelville, where he was employed three years, and
then was called to clerk for the Midland Blast Furnace Company. He was soon
after made assistant book-keeper, and later, for
two years had entire charge of the books. Failing sight compelled him to
seek other occupation, and for two years he was a
traveling salesman from St. Louis.
In 1885 he opened a store in Steelville, and has since then done his share
of the trade. In 1884 he married Mrs. Mary E.
Jamison, a native of Crawford County, who is a member of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church. In politics, Mr. Key is a
Republican.

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