>From the Pittsburgh Gazette Times dated March 23 1912: FREDERICK W McKEE, aged 54, prominent in business circles of Pittsburgh, died yesterday in his home, 6104 Howe street, East End. He was born in Pittsburgh, the son of FREDERICK McKEE and a descendant of one of the oldest families in this city. His grandfather, WILLIAM STEWART, was one of the first manufacturers of charcoal iron in this region and in the furnaces on the Winfield estate made some of the cannon used by the government in the Civil War. Mr McKEE passed the whole of his life in Pittsburgh. He was educated in the local public schools and graduated from the Western University of Pennsylvania, now the University of Pittsburgh, with the class of '78. He afterward studied law in the office of George Shiras Jr and was graduated from the Law School of Harvard University, practicing law for some years in the courts of Allegheny county. Of late years he devoted his attention to developing a large property which he owned in Winfield township, Butler county. He was a treasurer of the Winfield Mineral Company, also of the Winfield Sand Company, president and general manager of the Winfield Railroad Company and a director in the Pennsylvania Clay Products Company. Mr McKEE was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, being connected for many years with the Emory and later with the Christ Church. He was married in 1890 to Miss BERTHA CHADWICK, a daughter of SAMUEL CHADWICK, one of the pioneer residents of the East End, and she, with four children, FREDERICK, a student at Princeton University, HERBERT VINCENT, WALLACE BRUCE, and Miss MARY McKEE, survives. He also leaves one sister, Mrs WILLIAM E CARNAHAN. _________________________________________________________________ Talk now to your Hotmail contacts with Windows Live Messenger. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0020000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://get.live.com/messenger/overview