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J. A. MAGEE, meat market, Saybrook; was born in Union Co., Penn., Oct. 24, 1851; his father, John T., was born in Union Co., Penn., April 15, 1827, and married Miss Mary A. Sneckler, Oct. 24, 1850; she also was born in same county, Feb. 14, 1828; they moved to Mercer Co., where his father died Oct. 6, 1863, and his mother Dec. 6, 1863; after their death, the subject of this sketch went to Union Co. and farmed for three years; he then went to Fulton Co., Ill., and lived with his grandfather; in 1873, he worked in a butcher-shop in Avon, of same county. In 1874, he went to Kansas, remaining one year, and, returning again to Ellisville, Fulton Co., carried on a saw-mill for one year, and, in Dec, 1875, came to Saybrook and opened a meat market in connection with his brother, W. A. McGee. He married Miss Lizzie Anderson Sept. 20, 1876; her father, Thomas H., when quite an infant, moved with his parents, to Peoria, Ill., and at 16 years of age, went to Fulton Co., Ill, and was engaged as engineer of the saw-mill of Thomas Maples for eight years, and, in 1869, came to McLean Co., and first settled in Cropsey Township, farming, and, in 1871, came to Saybrook and worked as engineer in the saw-mill of J. M. Stansbury. He died March 25, 1871. His wife was Miss Mary Conelly, of Canton, Fulton Co., Ill. Mr. McGee’s family consists of one daughter — Clara M., born Sept. 25, 1878.