McKAY, James

MCKAY

Posted By: Administrator
Date: 12/9/2001 at 09:14:32

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF De Witt TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 736-751

JAMES McKAY, engaged in drilling wells, selling pumps and wind-mills, De Witt; born in 1832; came to De Witt in 1865; he sells the Barnes Pump, manufactured at Maquoketa, Iowa, also the Rockford Pump, and is agent for the Wind-Mill Co. at Freeport, Ill.; has followed his present occupation for eleven years. His wife is a native of Canada; has nine children, two sons and seven daughters.