1884 History of Owen County, p. 923.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Franklin Township.


ALEXANDER C. McKEE was born in Freedom, Owen Co., Ind., 
February 18, 1846. He was the fifth son of a family of 
nine children born to Joseph and Lucinda (Bartlett) 
McKee, natives of Kentucky, and was reared in Freedom, 
in the schools of which village he acquired the rudiments 
of a good English education. In June, 1863, when but 
seventeen years of age, he enlisted in Company I, 
Sixteenth Illinois Volunteers, under Capt. Jackson, and 
took part in the following engagements: Corinth, Iuka, 
Knoxville and Jonesville, Va., in which battle he was 
captured, and placed in the Andersonville Prison, where 
he was confined eleven months and seventeen days. He 
received an honorable discharge August 18, 1865, and 
returned to Freedom. One year Iater, he removed to 
Ellettsville, Monroe County, and began learning 
cabinetmaking, remaining four years, removing thence to 
Gosport, where he remained two vears. He was then 
appointed foreman of the bridge carpenters on the I. & 
V. R. H., which position he filled creditably for three 
years, after which he followed the carpenter trade in 
Greene County about eighteen months, thence going to 
Bloomington, Monroe County, where he at present resides, 
and enjoys a lucrative business as contractor and 
builder. December 29, 1868, he was married to Miss Mary 
McLaughlin, a daughter of Clark McLaughlin, a citizen 
of Gosport. By this union there is one child -- Flora. 
He and wife are members of the Christian Church.