Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 547.

EDWARD D. McKEE

     the leading druggist of Sherman county, has a fine store and stock in
Wasco, in every respect an up-to-date emporium. He is a native Oregonian, having
been born in Marion county, June 20, 1873, the son of David A. and Caroline
(Hall) McKee, the father a native of Kentucky ; the mother of Illinois. The
ancestry of David McKee were members of an old southern family. Both the parents
of our subject came to Oregon in 1852, with their parents, David A. at the age
of fifteen ; Caroline, four years old. The parents located in the Willamette
valley. The family of our subject remained in Oregon City two years, where the
father's father conducted the first blacksmith shop in town. Thence he migrated
to Marion county where he secured a donation claim which land he retained until
his death. Nearly all of it still remains in the McKee family. David A. McKee,
the father of our subject, lives in Woodburn with his second wife ; he is
retired from active business. The mother of our subject died in February, 1897,
on the old donation claim.
     On this same place our subject was reared until he was nineteen years of
age. He attended various public schools, and also pursued a course in pharmacy
at the Willamette University, in the pharmaceutical department. He was graduated
in 1895 and began work in a drug drug store at Portland, where he remained five
years.  Following a six months' visit home and a six months' trip east, Mr.
McKee came to Wasco, Sherman county, August 1, 1899, and opened a drug store in
which he was eminently successful. May 5, 1904, he moved into a one-story brick
building, which he had erected, twenty-six by sixty feet in size ; the largest
drug store in the county. He carries stock and-fixtures to an amount of over
four thousand dollars.
     February 20, 1901, at the residence of the bride's parents in Wasco, Mr.
McKee was united in marriage to Miss Virginia Dunlap, daughter of Clark Dunlap,
mentioned elsewhere. Our subject has four brothers and four sisters living:
Charles, a Marion county farmer Leonard, a druggist in Goldendale, Klickitat
county, Washington Wiley, a bookkeeper in Portland : Herman, a druggist in
Goldendale ; Ada, wife of Charles B. Hill, a member of the Portland police,
force; Emma, wife of William Owen, a merchant of Monitor, Oregon ; Ivy and
Minnie, single, living at Woodburn.
     Mr. and Mrs. McKee have one child, Marion aged ten months. He is a member
of Cascade Lodge, No. 303, B. P. O. E., of The Dalles, Aurora Lodge, No. 54, K.
of P., of Wasco, the A. O. U. W., of which he is past master workman, and the M.
W. A. Mrs. McKee is a member of the Methodist church. He and his wife are highly
esteemed and popular in the community in which they reside.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2010 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.