Dickinson Co., KS AHGP-Portrait and
Biographical Album of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and
Marion Counties-Rev. C. U. McKee
Portrait and Biographical
Album of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and Marion
Counties
Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1893
REV. C. U. McKEE, General Manager of the
Central College, of Enterprise, was born in
Decatur County, Ind., September 3, 1848,
and is a son of Rev. Joseph and Mary (Main)
McKee, both of whom were natives of Ohio. They
removed to Illinois when our subject was a lad of
six years. His father engaged in ministerial work
in a number of counties in Illinois.
Mr. McKee, of this sketch, acquired a common-school
education and when quite a young man
took up the work of the ministry, to which he
has devoted the greater part of his life. He spent
two years in the Western College, in Linn County,
Iowa, his family having removed to Iowa in 1865,
and when about twenty-three years of age began
ministerial work in Blakesburgh, Iowa. In 1873,
he came to Kansas, locating near Beloit, where
he entered a homestead and continued to reside
for a period of seventeen years. He preached as
a local pastor for two or three years during that
time, and was afterward connected with the Solomon
Mission for four years. In 1879, he was ordained
a minister of the United Brethren Church
of Harlan, Smith County, and immediately after
was Presiding Elder for the Beloit district, of
which he had charge for three years.
On the 31st of August, 1871, in Appanoose
County, Iowa, the marriage of Mr. McKee was
celebrated with Miss J. J. Musgrave, and their
union has been blessed to them with a family of
eight children, as follows: Alvie A., Lula E.,
Josie M., Charlie M., Urvin B., Maggie M., Frank
M. and Rilla J.
After serving as Presiding Elder of the Beloit
district for three years, a short interval elapsed,
when the Rev. Mr. McKee was again elected to that
position, having charge of the district for a term
of four years. He was General Agent for Gould
College, of Harlan, Smith County, Kan., for two
years, of which institution he had been Trustee.
Subsequently, he became Trustee of the Lane University,
of Lecompton, with which the Gould College
was consolidated, and in 1890 and 1891
served as General Agent for that school, which he
resigned to accept the management of the Central
College of Enterprise in 1891. He has a general
oversight of the institution and is an enthusiastic,
earnest worker in the interests of the school. He
throws his whole soul into the work, and to his
enterprising and progressive spirit the college owes
much of its success. He is an able man, and his
work in the behalf of the school will be of immense
benefit to it. During his short residence
here the Rev. Mr. McKee has already made many
friends, who hold him in high regard for his sterling
worth. Wherever he has gone he has made
friendships which will last until life his ended.
(c) 2009 Sheryl McClure for
Dickinson County KS AHGP