My Genealogy Hound

Elliot Fletcher McVeigh, a member of the real estate firm of H. R. & E. F. McVeigh, is a young man whose energy and sense mark him as an efficient factor in the consummation of the firm’s many enterprises. He was born in Mississippi County, Ark., in 1867, and is the second in a family of nine children born to H. M. and Susan (Fletcher) McVeigh [see sketch of Hon. H. M. McVeigh]. Elliot McVeigh secured a good practical education in the public schools of Osceola, and when sixteen years of age he engaged as clerk with N. L. Avery & Co., with whom he continued for three years. He then went to St. Louis, but only remained there a short time. On January 1, 1886, he was appointed by County Clerk McVeigh as deputy, and upon the accession of Mr. Driver to the office of county clerk, Elliot McVeigh was retained, and he is now engaged in that office. Nowhere in the county is there to be found a young man of more energy or determined will or force of character than Mr. McVeigh; and in no locality is there anyone who is more worthy the esteem and confidence of the community than he. He possesses marked artistic ability, inherited from a long line of ancestors, many of whose descendants are noted artists, and in Mississippi County, which is noted for its self-made men, Mr. McVeigh gives every promise of rising to distinction.