Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-11-17
GENERAL McKENNY
DIED At HIS HOME IN THIS CITY
SATURDAY NIGHT.

SATURDAY NIGHT.
He was III Only Few Days-tiis Death Leaves
Void None Can Fill in the Community
Where He was so Well Known.
Gen. Il. I. McKenny died at his
home on Seventh and Main streets,
Saturday night, about 10 o'clock.
He was i'll but few hours, and death
is said to have resulted from conges-
ton of the brain.
Gen. McKenny was a native of Gal
latin county, ILL.,, and was born in
1880. He was educated at Locust
Hill Episcopal College, in Franklin
county, Of that State. He enlisted in
the Mexican war. in the First Illinois
regiment in 1S47. After a service of
about year and n half he was mus
tered out, when he engaged in the
drug business at Keokuk, Iowa, where
he raised a company of the Union
Guards" of the State militia and
served as first lieutenant. In 1861,
when the civil war began, he aided in
raising the Second Iowa Infantry, and
was elected first lieutenant. After
some time spent in duty along the
Hannibal and st. 10 Railroad, his reg
iment was ordered to st. Louis, and
Lieut.. McKenny was detailed as Post
Adjutant. He afterwards became
captain and Adjutant General on
Gen. Curtis staff. Soon after this
General Curtis took the field in pur-
suit Of Prices army and overlook the
rear guard at Sugar Creek. The First
Missouri cavalry was abandoned by its
colonel, and Captain Mckenny as
sumed temporary command and per-
formed gallant service, receiving two
bullet wounds, one in the head and
one in the hip. After this battle he
was commissioned aide on the staff of
Major-General Halleck, with the rank
of major. He was later assigned to
the staff of General Pope, as assistant
inspector general, in which position he
remained till the close of the war.
For meritorious conduct he was bre-
vetted lieutenant colonel, colonel and
brigadier general.
At the close of the war General Nc
Kenny returned to Keokuk, Iowa, and
completed his studies.
In 1866 he was appointed Super
intendent of Indian Affairs of Wash
ington Territory, and came to Olym-
pia in 1867. He served years in
this capacity, when he resigned and
engaged in the real estate business
and later in the drug business. He
was president of the State Hospital
for the Insane, president of the Olym-
pia and Tenino Railway company,
president OF the Olympia Hotel COM
pany, and builder of the McKenny
block, on the corner of Fourth and
Main streets.
General Mckenny was married in
St. Louis, in 1868, to Miss Adelaide,
daughter of Hon. Washington King,
at one time Mayor of st. Louis.
His widow and three children, Mrs.
Ida McKenny Reed, William r. and
| marguerite survive MN.
Gen. McKenny was a man OF the
warmest impulses and when his heart
was opened to friendship, it was of no
ordinary nature, but an unreserved
command of the kindlier impulses of
his generous heart. If he may have
appeared brusk and brunt at times,
in his intercourse with his fellow man,
it was but a mannerism incident to
the environments of his active life on
the field of battle and in the advance
line of frontier experience, which is
not at all times conducive to placidity
of temper. The writer has had oppor-
tunity and occasion for basing an
opinion upon Gen. McKenny's noble
ness of nature and warmth of heart,
and he gladly places this tribute to
the memory of cherished friend.
The funeral rites took place at de-
ceased's late residence, Tuesday, at 2
F. NJ. under the management of the
Generals companions in arms, the
q. A. r. and Sons of Veterans. The
pastor and choir OF St. Johns church
conducted the services at the home,
and Post Chaplain Smith the rituals
tic forms of remembrance at the
grave, including the volleys of musket-
ry which constitute a fitting adieu to
the departed.
The Grand Army, through their
committee. consisting of N. H. Owings,
Phil Skillman and A. B. Cowles, have
presented the following resolutions as
expressive of the deep feeling of de-
ceased's comrades:
Whereas, 1t has pleased Divine
Providence to call from our post our
comrade, General 7. /. McKenny, the
first post commander of George H.
Thomas Post Number Five,
Therefore, Be it Resolved, That we
take this occasion to extend to his be-
reaved family our heartfelt sympathy
in their irreparable loss and to express
our sincere appreciation of q brave
soldier, a gallant officer, good citi-
zen, kind and loving husband and
father and an honest man.
At the breaking out of the Mexican
war General McKenny, then a mere
boy, enlisted as private in a volun-
teer regiment serving his country
faithfully. At the close of the war he
was mustered out with his regiment,
receiving an honorable discharge.
When the Civil war broke out lie
again entered the volunteer service as
private and was at once made lieu
tenant. He rose to the rank of colo
mel, and was three times brevetted for