Bio: McKahan, James E. (1879 - 19??)

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Surnames: McKahan, Thoen, Elliott, Anderson

----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

McKahan, James E., D. D. S. (19 April 1879 - 19??)

James E. McKahan, D. D. S., who commands a large dental practice at Wausau, was born at River Falls, Pierce County. Wis., April 19, 1879, and is a son of George W. and Lena (Thoen) McKahan. The McKahan family was established in Wisconsin in 1852, by Samuel McKahan and wife, natives of Scotland, but former residents of Washington County, Pa., where their son, George W. McKahan, was born. He was nine years old when he accompanied his parents to Wisconsin and spent his subsequent life in this state, his death occurring in 1889, at the age of forty-two years. He married Lena Thoen, who is of Norwegian ancestry and still survives. Three sons and one daughter were born to them: Callie, who is the wife of Henry Elliott, of River Falls, Wis.; William D., who has charge of the Cudahy Bros, packing plant at Sioux City, Ia.; James E.; and George, who died of pneumonia in October, 1911, at Spokane, Wash., when aged twenty-four years.

James E. McKahan attended the public schools and after graduating from the River Falls High School entered the University of Illinois and in 1905 was graduated from the dental department. In the same year he located at Wausau and has been in active practice here ever since. Dr. McKahan has always kept well informed concerning every advance made in his science and is a valued member of the Marathon County Dental Society and the Central Wisconsin Dental Society, for five years serving as secretary and treasurer of the former organization and for three years of the latter. With the exception of five years spent in the west. Dr. McKahan has been a lifelong resident of Wisconsin.

On October 26, 1906, Dr. McKahan was married to Miss Pauline Anderson, of Menominee, Wis., daughter of Anton Anderson, and they have two sons, George and Paul. In politics he is identified with the Republican Party.