BIO: William MENZIE, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 626.
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  WILLIAM MENZIE, president of the borough council of DuBois, Pa., has been 
continuously in the employ of John E. DuBois, the largest individual lumber 
owner of the United States, since 1879, and now has charge of the retail 
department.  He came to DuBois from Nova Scotia, where he was born January 12, 
1846.  His parents were William and Agnes (Donaldson) Menzie, natives of 
Scotland.
  William Menzie spent his boyhood on his father's farm and remained there until 
he reached manhood, when he went to Halifax, N. S., where he started a draying 
and express business on his own account and carried it on for about seven years.  
In 1879 he came to the U. S. and to DuBois, which was then only a small lumber 
town.  He entered the employ of John DuBois and spent the first winter lumbering 
in the deep woods, afterwards being given charge of the yards, where the labor 
was not so hard but the responsibility was greater.  He has continued, as 
mentioned above, and now is one of the oldest employes.
  In 1884 William Menzie was married to Miss Lavina Burns, of Osceola Mills, 
Clearfield county, and they have two children:  Mary B. and James F.  Mr. Menzie 
and family are members of the Second Methodist Episcopal church of DuBois and 
among its most faithful workers.  Mr. Menzie is an ardent Republican and for 
fifteen years has been a member of the DuBois borough council and has been 
president of this body since 1905.
  He has been closely identified with the business interests of the community 
and his time and means are freely given to anything tending to the betterment of 
the city and its people.  He is a past master of Garfield Lodge No. 559 Free and 
Accepted Masons and is the present Eminent Commander of Bethany Commandery No. 
83, Knights Templar, both bodies being located in DuBois.