Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

CHARLES McKEE, lumber merchant, Chandlerville, was born in 
Bristol, Connecticut, Sept. 3, 1833, to Levi and Sophia 
(Alcott) McKee; he was born in Connecticut, and emigrated 
to Illinois in 1843, settling in Hancock County; was a 
wagon-maker, and died in Chandlerville. His wife, the 
mother of our subject, was a native of Connecticut, and 
died in 1877; she was the mother of nine children, of whom 
Charles was the sixth. At about twenty years of age he 
apprenticed himself at the wagon-maker's trade, and worked 
at the same until 1860, when he engaged as clerk in a drug 
store in Chandlerville, and continued for about four years. 
In 1864 he went west to Kansas and Iowa, where he clerked 
for about two and half years. In 1867 he returned to 
Chandlerville, and in 1876 engaged in partnership with Mr. 
Goodell, in the lumber business. In 1860 he married Ellen 
Thompson, a native of Ireland; born in 1842 and dying in 
1862; leaving two children, one of whom is still living: 
Robert J. Mr. McKee is a Mason, a member of the 
Congregational church, and a Republican.

McKee Alcott Thompson Goodell
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