McKEES ROCKS, Pa., borough in Alle gheny County, on the south bank Of the Ohio River, opposite Allegheny and three miles north west of Pittsburgh, on the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie and the Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Yough iogheny railroads. There is an abundance of bituminous coal and natural gas in the dis trict, and there are large iron and steel indus tries with their kindred smaller manufactories. The town ships lumber and there arc manufac tures of wall plaster and concrete. The land was originally conveyed to Alexander McKee in 1764, a settlement was formed in 1830 and the town was incorporated in 1892. There is a considerable foreign population. The town is growing rapidly. Pop. 14,702.
McKEESPORT, Pa., city, in Allegheny County, at the junction of the Monongahela and the Youghiogheny rivers, and on the Pennsyl vania, the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, the New York Central and the Baltimore and Ohio rail roads, about 14 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The first permanent settlement was made in 1795 by David McKee, after whom the place was named. It was only a small village until 1829, when coal mining began on an extensive scale. It was incorporated as a borough 1 Sept. 1842, and chartered as a city 1 April 1890.
McKeesport is situated in a region noted for its extensive fields of bituminous coal and its natural gas. The chief industrial establish ments are steel and iron works, one of which, the National Tube Company, has 6,000 em ployees. The McKeesport Tin Plate Company has recently developed into the biggest plant of the kind in the world. There are numerous smaller manufacturing concerns, including vari ous lines of the steel industry and more diversi fied interests. The large industrial plants in the city proper employ about 11,000 persons with an annual payroll of approximately $8,000,000. Smaller industries employ about 1,000 persons with an annual payroll of $600, 000. Within five miles of the city limits large manufacturing plants employ another 25,000 persons, receiving over $18,000,000 in wages a year. The city has a large trade in its own manufactures and in coal and lumber. The principal educational institutions are the 14 public and the parish schools, the Douglass Business College, the Duff's Business College and the Carnegie library. Some of its princi pal buildings are those of the schools mentioned the new high school cost about $260,000), the Young Men's Christian Association, 50 churches and offices and store buildings. There
are 18 different religious denominations and 50 congregations in the city. The church property is valued at over a milliion and a half dollars. There are three national banks, two State banks, one trust company and one foreign banking house; total capital aggregating $1,407,100; sur plus, $1,608,290, and deposits, $9,000,000. The city officials include the mayor, serving for four years, and four city commissioners, elected for two years. The city has the commission form of government under the Clark Act of Penn sylvania. The city owns and operates the waterworks, the plant being valued at over $1,000,000. The annual municipal expenditures are about $480,000; the chief items of expense are, for police department, $32,000; fire depart ment, $35,000; street department, $37,000• water department, $95,000; health department, $10,000. Pop. over 47.000. A large number of the peo ple are foreign born, chiefly from Austria, Sweden, Germany and Italy, but the native born predominate.
McKEEVER, William Arch, American educator: b. Jackson County, Kan., 12 April 1868. He was graduated at the University of Kansas in 1898, and later studied at the Uni versity of Chicago and at Harvard. He was professor of philosophy at the Kansas State Agricultural College in 1900-13, and since 1913 has been professor of child welfare at the University of Kansas. He originated the 'Home Training Bulletins> which have circu lated widely among all English-speaking peo ples; organized the playground movement and is a director of the National Institute of Child Life, Philadelphia. Author of Psychology and the Higher Life' (1898) ; 'The Pioneer, a Story of the Making of Kansas' (1911); 'Training the Boy' (1913) ; 'Training the Girl' (1914) ; 'The Successful Sunday School Teacher' (1915).
MacKELLAR, Thomas, American poet: b. New York, 12 Aug. 1812; d. 29 Dec. 1899. Having learned the printer's trade in the pub lishing house of the Harpers, he went to Phila delphia as a proofreader in the stereotype foundry of Lawrence Johnson and Co., in time became a partner in the business and finally its head, the new firm being styled MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan. Among his works may be mentioned 'Droppings from the Heart' (1844); 'Tam's Fortnight Ramble' (1847) ; 'The Amer ican Printer' (1866) ; 'Rhymes Atween-Times' (1873), and 'Hymns and Metrical Psalms> (1883).