Bios: McKEE, Dr. Joseph H : Carnegie, Allegheny Co, PA 
         
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   Joseph H McKee, physician and surgeon of Carnegie, Penna, is one of an
   old and honored family. His great grandfather, John McKee, fought all
   during the Revolutionary War and was personally acquainted with
   Lafayette. On the occasion of Lafayette's visit to America in 1824, Mr
   McKee went to Brownsville, Penna, to see him, and brought home a silk
   handkerchief which the famous Frenchman had given him. John McKee was
   also a soldier in the War of 1812. His son, Henry McKee, an early
   settler, had a son, Finley McKee, father of the subject of this sketch.
   Finley McKee was a schoolteacher by profession, teaching school in the
   winter and farming during the summer months. He was one of the pioneer
   teachers of Pennsylvania, was noted for his success as a teacher, and
   rendered a great service to his state at a time when learning was not
   plentiful. He married Eliza A Harper, whose ancestors came to
   Pennsylvania at an early day from Scotland. Finley McKee was born in 1828
   and died in 1895. His wife died four years later at the age of sixty
   seven. Of the nine children born t Mr and Mrs Finley McKee:  Daniel
   McKee, a state normal graduate is a Methodist minister at Columbia,
   Penna; Anna McKee married C Blair, a farmer in Fayette county: Henry
   McKee died at the age of fourteen;  Joseph H McKee is the subject of this
   sketch; Clement L McKee, a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College,
   is pastor of the Second Presbyterian church at Wellsville, Ohio; William
   F McKee, a graduate of Ada college, Ohio, is a Presbyterian minister at
   Turtle Creek, Penna; Margery H McKee, who graduated from the California
   state normal school and taught school for several years, is married to
   James P Hagen and lives on a farm in Fayette county; Mary E McKee is
   teaching school at Perryopolis, Penna; and Joel S McKee, a graduate of
   Ada college, taught school several years and is now a bank clerk in
   Connellsville, Penna.

   Joseph H McKee was born in Fayette county, February 26, 1962. After
   attending the public schools, he became a student at Southwestern state
   normal school, graduating in 1884, and later a ember of the class of 1891
   of the Western Pennsylvania medical college of Pittsburgh. He earned his
   way through college by teaching school, and studied medicine in the
   offices of Dr Ellis Phillips of New Haven, Penna. Immediately after
   completing his preparation for a medical career, Dr McKee began to
   practice medicine at Woodville, Allegheny county, Penna, and six years
   later moved to Carnegie, where since 1898 he has devoted his time to a
   steadily increasing practice. He holds the position of medical examiner
   for several societies and for the Prudential life insurance company. He
   is a member of the Carnegie board of health and belongs to several secret
   orders, among them the National Union, Order of Scottish Clans and
   Protected Home Circle, and is a past president of the latter
   organization. He is also a member of the Presbyterian church, of which he
   has for several years been a ruling elder.

   Mr McKee was married in 1893 to Miss Lottie L Keller of Woodville,
   daughter of D P Keller, an officer in the Allegheny county workhouse, and
   granddaughter of David Nelson Lea, a member of the Clarke expedition and
   one of the first settlers of Western Pennsylvania. Dr McKee and wife have
   had two children: Joseph H McKee is living; but Wilbur F McKee died when 
   three months old.