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Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state)

b. 1831? d. 1909-06-11

Louisville, Kentucky, journalist and secretary of state. Fleming County, Kentucky, native. Son of William McKee and Abigail McKee. Married to Emily F. Reed McKee in Mason County, Kentucky, on August 16, 1855. Father of Charles McKee and Belle McKee. Clerk in a country store in Fleming County from 1848 to 1852. Laborer in Fleming County in 1850. Bookkeeper in Fleming County from 1852. Writer in 1856. Editor and owner of the Maysville Express from 1857 to 1859. Editor of the Louisville Daily Courier from 1859 to October 1861. Secretary at the convention of the provisional government in Russellville, Kentucky, in November 1861. Elected secretary of state of the provisional government of Kentucky in 1861. Writer and editor in Dallas County, Alabama, from October 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Division 2, p. 391A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 2, p. 454.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, p. 650A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film #000281844, p. 400.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film #000281846, p. 39.

California, Death Index, 1905-1939, Surnames L-R, California Department of Health and Welfare. California Vital Records-Vitalsearch (www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com). The Vitalsearch Company Worldwide, Inc., Pleasanton, California, p. 234 of microfilm (accessed through Ancestry.com on January 9, 2020).

Thomas M Owen, History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography Vol. IV (Chicago: S.J. Clarke & Co, 1921), p. 1120.

KYR-0004-033-0002.

Citation

McKee, Robert. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214939 (November 12, 2026).

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