Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 520
MAJOR CHARLES MACKENZIE

Major Charles MACKENZIE, a practicing Attorney at-Law of Dunlap, Iowa, will form the subject of this notice:

He is a native of New York City, born September 6, 1844, and is the son of D. A. and Mary A. (O'CONNOR) MACKENZIE, and is of scotch-Irish extraction. In 1855 he accompanied his parents to Dubuque, Iowa, where he received his early education; but subsequently attended the Beloit, Wisconsin, college, from which institution he graduated in 1861. He studied law under D. E. LYON, of Dubuque, and was admitted to the bar in 1866, and practiced his profession for one year in Dubuque and in 1869 removed to Eldora, Hardin county, where he remained one year, and then went to Mason City, Iowa, where he remained five years, and in 1875 located in Sioux City. He remained there until 1882, and then came to Dunlap. His practice is especially confined to Harrison, Crawford, and Monona Counties, and in the Supreme and United States Courts. By hard study and natural ability he has built up a large practice, and ranks high in the bar of the State.

Politically he was a Republican in the past, but not being in harmony with some of the principles of that party during the past few years, he has been identified with the Union Labor Party.

He is a member of Shields Post, No. 89, of the Grand Army of the Republic. He enlisted in 1862 in Company H, Ninth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged in April, 1865. He entered the service as Sergeant, was then made Adjutant, and was discharged as a Major. He was slightly wounded at the fall of Atlanta, as also he was at Pea Ridge. He was a brave soldier, always true to the Union cause. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and also of the Loyal Legion. He has never been married, only to his chosen profession, in which he has been an untiring worker, and a successful practitioner.

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