Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Pages 803 - 804

WILLIAM T. McFIE, the leading representative of the hardware trade of Clearwater, occupies one of its best buildings, which covers an area of 20x60 feet, and is two stories in height. It is located on Ross avenue, and is the receptacle of from $2,500 to $3,000 worth of stock, keeping in employment one practical tinner, who does all kinds of jobbing in the tinsmith line, while the proprietor conducts a trade averaging $10,000 per annum.

             The subject of this notice was born in Bath, Steuben Co., N. Y., Jan. 18, 1861, and is the son of William, Sr., and Sarah (Brundage) McFie, who also are residents of Clearwater. The elder McFie was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, whence he emigrated to America when a boy, and from that time until reaching manhood was a resident of New York State. There he met and married his wife, who was a native of Steuben County, N. Y., and they continued their residence in the Empire State until 1885.

            The parents of our subject had two children only: William, Jr., and his sister Louise, the latter of whom is now the wife of Warren W. Oxx, of Steuben County, N. Y. William, Jr., was reared to manhood in his native State, where he received a common-school education. His experience in the hardware trade began when he was a youth of seventeen, he being employed as a clerk in the town of Bath, N. Y., for a number of years. He came to this county in the spring of 1884, and the year following, on the 15th of April, was united in marriage with Miss Lizzie, daughter of Hon. William Ross, by whom he has had two children: Malcolm and Maynard, who were born March 5, 1886. Mr. McFie, politically, is decidedly Democratic, and is numbered among the active and clear-headed business men of his town. He is still a young man, and has a fair prospect for the future.

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