HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1191-92.   [Franklin County]

HUGH CROCKETT McKEE, present superintendent of the Frankfort City Schools,
has given distinguished service since his election to that important office
in July, 1904, having become a potent factor in all movements which tend
toward the elevation of educational standards in that city.  By ancestral
record and present loyalty Professor McKee is a representative Kentuckian.
His forefathers and their achievements will merit a passing glance.
     His parents were Robert B. and Serena D. McKee, the former born in
the old McKee homestead which was patented under the Virginia government by
John McKee, the subject's grandfather.  John McKee was born in Virginia and
was of Scotch-Irish lineage, and his wife was a daughter of Colonel Anthony
Crockett of Revolutionary fame.  Professor Hugh Crockett McKee is thus a
great-grandson of that celebrated American.  John McKee was a farmer by
vocation and was the first magistrate of his district after Kentucky became
a state.  He lived to be eighty-four years of age and was a widely-known
and much respected man.
     Robert B. McKee, father of the subject, previous to the Civil war was
employed for four years in the Western River and Harbor Improvements
service.  He was warden of the Missouri penitentiary at Jefferson City for
six years before the war and devoted the last twenty-five years of his life
to teaching in the public schools.  He was state examiner under Hon. Deshay
Pickett, superintendent of public instruction.  At the time of his demise
he was seventy-six years of age.  His wife was a native of Ohio county,
Kentucky, of Scotch-Irish descent.  She bore her husband four children, of
whom Professor McKee was the third.
     Hugh Crockett McKee was born on the old McKee homestead in Franklin
county, June 10, 1871.  Upon this fair domain he was reared and came to
young manhood.  He received his early education in the public schools and
his A. B. degree in the Kentucky Military Institute.  As seen from the
foregoing Professor McKee may claim his pedagogical inclinations by right
of heritage.  Soon after his graduation he taught school for two years
at Shelbyville.  He afterward opened a private school at Frankfort,
which he conducted for a good many years or until his election to the
superintendency of the Frankfort city schools in July, 1904.
     He has since attained recognition as one of the state's leading
educators, having been president of the Kentucky Educational Association
in 1909, which year the organization registered a very large membership
and a successful campaign for better educational conditions was conducted
throughout the state.
     Professor McKee finds pleasure in his lodge relations.  He is a member
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks.  As to his church associations, he is junior warden of the
Ascension Episcopal church, having been one of its vestrymen since 1902.
     In 1897 Professor McKee was married to Miss Stella Jones, of
Frankfort, daughter of Marcus A. and Sarah M. Jones.  They have two
daughters, Virginia and Sarah Mason.

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