Person:Alexander McCue (1)

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• McCue and Robertson Family Papers, 1831–1927. 131 items. Mss1M1395a - Contains papers of several members of the McCue, Robertson, and related Stuart families of Augusta County and Staunton. Most of the collection is made up of the papers of Alexander Hall McCue (1852–1912), his brother Henry McDowell McCue (d. 1939), and Alexander Farish Robertson (1853–1938). Nearly a third of the collection consists of receipts, 1898–1910, for taxes on land in Augusta County, and Staunton, owned by Alexander Robertson's wife, Margaret Briscoe (Stuart) Robertson (1855–1932), and her sisters Susan Baldwin (Stuart) Gibson (1849–1903) and Mary (Stuart) McGuire (1844–1933) (section 27); and leases, 1897–1906, of Alexander, his wife, and her sisters regarding the family farm Wayside (section 26). Also in the collection is an essay, ca. 1846, written by Sarah Hall Douglass while a student at the Augusta Female Seminary [now Mary Baldwin College] in Staunton (section 33).

Mrs. Eleanor Douglass McCue, A.H. (Sandy) McCue, Mrs. A.H. McCue, H. McD. (Hal) McCue.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Family Recorded, in McCue, John Nolley. The McCues of Old Dominion: supplemented with brief charts of the Steele, Arbuckle and Cunningham families. (Mexico, Mo.: Missouri Ptg. & Pub. Co., 1912).

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   ... (80) ii Alexander Hall (Sandy) McCue, b 1853, "Long Meadows," Augusta county, Va. ; m Nannie Hanger (299), b 5, Oct. 1859; dau of Dr. David W. Hanger and Sarah Margaret McCue. See No. 299 for sketch. Mr. McCue graduated at Washington College in 1873.
   
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   "Mr. A. H. McCue was born in Augusta county, Va., in 1853, and received his education at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. In later years Mr. McCue purchased the homestead of his father's estate where he now resides. He has been and is now engaged in agricultural pursuits, and a cattle and sheep grazer on a large scale. Although comparatively a young men, he has, by close attention to business, acquired a fine estate. He is the senior member of the firm of McCue and Kemper, general eastern agents for the Acme Hay Harvester Co., of Pekin, 111., who are large manufacturers of hay stackers and rakes. He is an active member of the Real Estate Exchange, and is of the firm of Hanger, Kemper & McCue, real estate brokers. Mr. McCue is a gentleman of fine business tact, sound judgment and foresight. He is an active promoter of the city's development and a solid citizen."
   
   Besides being efficient in business, Mr. McCue is active in church work. For years he has filled with credit, the office of deacon in Tinkling Spring church. This grand old house of worship has done a noble work from its early beginning to the present day. Mr. McCue is a member of the Horticultural Society of Virginia ; a member of the Board of the State Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind; and an apostle of free silver and Jeffersonian Democracy. A late number of the Staunton Daily Leader, advises that he heads the delegates from Augusta to the State Convention which will instruct for Governor Wilson, a former Augustian, as choice for Presidential nomination. ...