(4 July 1848-28 April 1912), lumberman, political officer. (Duncan J. McKenzie, D. J. McKenzie) Born in GC. Parents: James McKenzie, who was born in Scotland, and was occupied in Canada first with lumbering and afterwards with farming, and his wife Anna Bella McLaren, who was born in Ontario. Educated locally. When he was in his late teens, he was involved, like so many other young GC men, in the military preparations then underway in GC to defend his county and his country from the Fenians. A biographical sketch of McKenzie, drawing presumably on his own recollections and published in an 1892 Wisconsin local history, states that “At the age of twenty he left home and started out in the world to make his own fortune. His first place of location was Au Sable, Michigan, where he engaged in the lumber business. After remaining there two years he removed to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, where he lived till the spring of 1875. At that time he came to Buffalo county [a Wisconsin county on the Mississippi River], located at Alma, and engaged as a log scaler for the Mississippi River Logging Company, in which position he served till he was appointed [a] Lumber Inspector by the State. The latter position he held from the spring of 1878 till 1889. Since then he has carried on a logging business and has also been engaged in steamboating on the river, towing logs and timber.” He was married at Eau Clair, Wisc., in 1875, to Catherine Elizabeth Horton, of New England ancestry. Her surname is also found as Babcock. He was elected mayor of his town of Alma in 1891 (he was also postmaster of Alma), and a member for one term of the state legislature (House of Representatives) for Buffalo and Pepin Counties, 1893, as a Republican, and he served two terms as railroad commissioner of Wisconsin, also an elected position. As railroad commissioner, he is said to have “issued the first sectional railroad map” of the state, in 1897. This apparently means the maps showed the individual one-mile-square “sections” into which Wisconsin counties were divided. In politics, he was a Republican. At the time of his death he was employed by the Atwood Lumber and Manufacturing Co. of Park Falls, Wisc., as a lumber inspector. He died at his home in Park Falls. Mason. (six children, five surviving him) His funeral was held about 80 miles further south, at Stanley, Wisc., described in his obituary as having been “for many years Mr. McKenzie’s home.” He was the uncle of Mrs Mary C. Ishikawa.

Milwaukee Morning Sentinel, 29 April 1912 (with portrait), Glengarry News 10 May 1912 (from The Herald, Park falls, Wisc.) * his biog., in Biographical History of La Crosse, Trempealeau and Buffalo Counties, Wisconsin (1892), 614-615 * revisits GC, GN 28 June 1901 * information from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin