Biographical Sketch of Doctor F. McKee, Jefferson County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Doctor F. McKee, general merchant, and dealer in lumber and grain, Vic-
toria, was born in Valle Township, Jefferson County, March 16, 1834,
and is the youngest of ten children born to William S. and Mary F.
(McKay) McKee.  William S. McKee (deceased) was a native of Abbeville,
S. C., and a son of Adam McKee, a native of Scotland, who immigrated to
the United States, and settled in South Carolina during the Revolution-
ary War.  William S. McKee settled in Gasconade County, Mo., in 1817, 
at a time when the country was a wilderness, and his nearest neighbor
twenty miles away; he removed to Jefferson County in 1823, first settl-
ing in Central Township, and afterward in Valle Township.  Doctor F.
McKee was brought up on a farm and obtained his education in the prim-
itive log school.  January 3, 1859 he married Elizabeth Wilson, a 
native of Big River Township, Jefferson County, and a daughter of David
Wilson (deceased).  To Mr. and Mrs. McKee have been born nine children,
of whom eight are living, viz.: Geneva (widow of Aaron Pinson, has one
child), Edward, Anna (wife of W. L. Vobertson, of Valle Township, has
two children, Jessie and an infant), Freeman married Edward Raymond, of
Helena, Mont., Brunette, Phil S., Kate, Hattie and Helena.  Mr. McKee
served in the late war in Company I, Thirteenth Missouri Infantry, and
was afterward transferred to the Twenty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
He participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, 
Vicksburg, Little Rock and others.  He was engaged in farming until 
1886, having removed to Victoria in September, 1884.  He is a member of
the Masonic fraternity, the G. A. R. and Columbia Union.  His political
preferences are Republican, though he is not a politician.  Mr. and 
Mrs. McKee are members of the Christian Church.

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