Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 3.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 34.
 
MILES H. McKEY
 
     On the roster of the state officials of Oregon appears the name of Miles H.
McKey, who is ably and efficiently discharging the duties of  assistant
attorney-general, and no man is held in higher esteem.  Mr. McKey is a native of
Marion county, Oregon, born on the 6th day of June, 1896, and is a son of
Charles N. and Kate B. (Ringo) McKey.   His father, who is a native of Kansas,
now resides in Portland, and his mother, who is a native of Marion county, is a
daughter of Hamilton H. Ringo, whose family were numbered among the early
pioneers of Marion county.   After completing his elementary education in the
public schools of Albany, Miles H. McKey entered Albany College, which he
attended for two years.   He then entered the law department of the University
of Oregon, where he was graduated in 1920, being one of the first two students
to receive from that institution the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence.   He
located at Albany, where he practiced his profession for a time, and then went
to Portland, where he gave his attention to his private practice until appointed
assistant attorney-general, in which position he is now serving at Salem.   Well
educated and a man of keen judgment and sound erudition, he is gaining marked
prestige as an able and capable lawyer and is handling the matters that come
before him in a manner that has won high praise.
 
     In 1924 Mr. McKey was united in marriage to Miss Alice Cordero, of San
Francisco, California. A daughter, Mercedes, was born May 4, 1927. He is a
member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of the Maccabees,
the American Legion and the Delta Theta Phi law fraternity. Mr. McKey is a
veteran of the World war and prior thereto he served as a member of the Oregon
National Guard for six years. After the declaration of war he entered .the
officers' training camp at the Presidio, San Francisco, where he was
commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Reserve Corps, on August
15, 1917, and on December 16, 1918, was discharged as a captain of Coast
Artillery, his last service being with the 18th Anti-Aircraft Sector. His was
the distinction of being the only under-graduate student of the University of
Oregon to be commissioned a captain during the war and he was one of the
youngest captains in the United States Army. In August, 1922, he was
commissioned major in the Coast Artillery Reserve Corps and was assigned to
command the 3rd Battalion of the 604th Coast Artillery (Railway). He is a member
of the Officers' Reserve Association. He has given intensive study to military
matters, in which he is regarded as an expert. Personally Mr. McKey possesses to
a marked degree those qualities which commend a man to the good favor of his
fellowmen and is deservedly popular throughout the range of his acquaintance.

     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2016 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.