Person Sheet

Name Joseph H. McKAGUE Alias/AKA Joe444 Occupation Tinsmith (1880), Tinner (1902, 1904), Carpenter (1905)448,449,450,451 Birth Date Apr 15, 1847445 Birth Place ON Canada Birth Memo near Toronto Death Date May 2, 1926446,445 Death Place Empire Twp, Dakota Co. MN US Death Memo 79 yr 17 da, at son Win's home Burial Place Greenvale, Dakota Co. MN US439,447 Burial Memo Greenvale Cemetery, from Leroy MacPhee Funeral Home Father George McKAGUE (1810-) Mother Susan TOWER (ca1821-?)
Spouses
1 Mary Victoria HUNTINGTON Birth Date Nov 2, 1837438 Birth Place ON Canada Death Date Mar 28, 1931438 Death Place Pierre, Hughes Co. SD US Death Memo 93 yr Burial Place Greenvale, Dakota Co. MN US439 Occupation Homemaker227 Father Samuel HUNTINGTON Mother Polly BROWN
Marriage Date Jul 23, 1870452 Marriage Place Austin, Mower Co. MN US Marriage Memo Rev. H. I. Parker. Witnesses were D.M. Parker and Fannie Knight.
Children Wrena (Died as Child) (ca1872-ca1879) Joseph Winnifred (1874-1956) Roy Huntington (1876-1949) Myrtle Bell (Died as Child) (ca1880-ca1880) Floyd Wellington (1884-1910)
Notes for Joseph H. McKAGUE
Joe emigrated to the US in 1864.455 He went to Nebraska, where he worked on a farm. His route may have been Ontario to Michigan to Minnesota to Nebraska.231 He went to Racine, Minnesota at age nineteen (so about 1866).445 In 1870 he was living there with his sister Mariah and her husband.245 There he met and married his wife Mary. [There is some suggestion that Joe worked as a farmhand for Mary and her first husband.] They were still there in 1875.244 On Feb 27, 1879 Mary McKAGUE sold her land in section 21, township 104, range 14 [Mower Co. MN US] to Labon C. PERRY [her first husband's brother?]. (Joseph never owned the land after marriage to Mary)237 In 1879 the couple took up a homestead near Creighton NB.445 In 1880, Joe was living in the village of Raligh, Center Precinct, Antelope Co. NE. His brother George was living with them.239 In 1885, he was farming in Eden Precinct, Antelope Co. NE US. He had 60 tillable acres and 220 unimproved acres. The farm was valued at $3,200, the farm implements at $156 and the livestock at $290. He had 2 horses, 1 milch cow, 1 other cow (during 1884 1 calf had been born and 1 calf/cow sold), 19 swine, and 60 barnyard poultry. The value of farm productions sold, consumed or on hand for 1884 was $170. In 1884 the farm had produced 100 lbs of butter, 240 dozen eggs, 500 bushels of Indian corn (on 20 acres), 250 bushels of oats (on 10 acres), 48 bushels of wheat (on 5 acres) and 15 acres worth of Irish potatoes.506 At a later date Joe and Mary moved to Watervliet MI, and then from 1901 to 1906 lived in Minneapolis MN, where Joe worked as a tinner.461 His address in 1902 was 37th Ave., northeast corner of Jackson St. (on the city border with Columbia Heights).449 In 1904 it was 3120 Polk Ave., Minneapolis.450 In 1905 and 1906 it was 2911 Central Ave., Minneapolis.451,458 Then they purchased a farm near Walnut Grove MN.461 Joe was living in [near?] Walnut Grove in 1909.444 He is shown on the 1910 census for Gales Township, just outside Walnut Grove, living with Mary, J. Winifred, and grandson Avon.454 By 1920 they had moved into town, and appear on the Walnut Grove census for that year as J.H., Mary, Avon and Evelyn.455 Joe [and presumably Mary?] spent his last three years in his son Win's home.445
Research Notes
NAME: His first name(s) is/are also given as Joe227 and as Joseph.458,450,449 His last name is also given as McKAIG.227 BIRTH: There is a death certificate showing George as his father and Susan TOWER as his mother; it confirms his date of birth with the place given as Canada.548 His year of birth is confirmed with no parentage given and the place given as Canada.549 He is described as the oldest in a family of 7,462 and as the oldest child in the second marriage.271 Joseph's birthdate is also given as 1843.42,10 He is shown as 14 in 1861.550 He is shown on the 1870 census as 23, born in Canada,245 and on the 1875 census as 28, born in Canada.244 He is shown on the 1880 federal census (p. 28) in Antelope Co., Center-Precinct, Nebraska as age 33, born in Canada, father born in Canada, mother born in New York.239 [Another reading of this census reports his age as 38.448] He is shown on the 1885 census as 37, born in Canada, father born in Canada, mother born in New York.227 He is shown on the 1910 census as 63.454 He is shown on the 1920 census as 72,455 born in Canada.551 One source indicates that his mother was Spanish.440 MARRIAGE: The date of his marriage to Mary is also given as Jun 15, 1871438 and as Jul 15, 1871 in Austin MN.552 DEATH: His year of death is confirmed with no place given.553,439 MISC: A stray note reads: "He appears to have been in Creighton NE in 1847."271 I suspect this is a typo, either here or in the source, for 1874. ---------- 1885 census entry: McKAIG, Joe 37, farmer, b. Canada, father b. Ireland, mother b. N.Y., Mary 47, keeping house, b. Canada, father b. Canada, mother b. N.Y., Joseph 10, b. Minnesota, father b. Canada, mother b. Canada, Roy 8, b. Minnesota, father b. Canada, mother b. Canada, Floyd 1, b. Nebraska, father b. Canada, mother b. Canada, Geo. (widowed) 77 father, farmer, b. Ireland, father b. Ireland, mother b. Ireland227