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PINK W. MCKAY
Vol. 3, p. 1220

Another of the native sons of Oklahoma who is giving admirable
account of himself as a young business man of marked progressiveness
and as a loyal and appreciative citizen is Mr. McKay, who is
president of the First National Bank of New Wilson, Carter County,
who is a member of one of the sterling pioneer families of Oklahoma,
within whose limits his father settled more than thirty years ago.

Pink W. McKay was born in what is now Pittsburg County, Oklahoma,
and the date of his nativity was March 5, 1884. He is a son of George
W. and Nannie (BELL) McKay, the former of whom was born in the
Dominion of Canada and the latter in the State of Missouri, where
their marriage was solemnized. As a young man George W. McKay went
from Canada into the State of Massachusetts, and later he removed to
Missouri, where he engaged in farming and stockraising, with which
line of industrial enterprise he continued to be identified after his
removal to Texas. In 1881 he came with his family from the Lone Star
State to Indian Territory and became one of the pioneer
agriculturists and stockgrowers of Pittsburg County, and he later
removed to McClain County. His experience has thus covered industrial
and civic activities in Indian Territory, Oklahoma Territory and the
State of Oklahoma, and through his well-ordered efforts he has
achieved definite prosperity within the period of his residence in
the present vigorous young State of Oklahoma. He and his wife now
maintain their home at Byars, McClain County. From Pittsburg County
he removed to Pottawatomie County, where he remained until he
established his residence in McClain County. He is a staunch democrat
in his political proclivities and both he and his wife hold
membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His paternal
grandfather, of Scotch-Irish lineage, immigrated to America and
settled in Canada, where he passed the remainder of his life.

George W. and Nannie (Bell) McKay became the parents of five
children: Frank is a merchant at Maud, Pottawatomie County; Maggie is
the wife of Charles B. CATRON, a merchant at Byars, McClain County;
Pink W., of this review, was the next in the order of birth; Hugh is
engaged in the mercantile business at Asher, Pottawatomie County, and
his twin sister, Lulu, is the wife of James W. GREEN, likewise a
prosperous merchant at Asher.

In the pioneer schools of Pittsburg and Pottawatomie counties Pink
W. McKay acquired his early education, his parents having removed to
the latter county in 1894, when he was a lad of about ten years. He
early gained practical knowledge of farming and the cattle business,
and when but fourteen years of age he began independent operations in
the handling of yearling cattle, his association, with the cattle
continuing for four years. Thereafter he was engaged in the
mercantile business at Asher, Pottawatomie County, until 1912, when
he removed to Carter County and assumed the position of assistant
cashier of the State Bank of Hewitt. Two months later he sold his
interest in that institution and became one of the principal
stockholders in the Bank of Commerce at Poolville, in the same
county. He served one year as president of this bank and then sold
his stock in the same and removed to the ambitious young Town of New
Wilson, Carter County, where on the 11th of July, 1914, he effected
the organization of the First National Bank, of which he has served
as president and as chief executive of which he has brought to bear
progressive policies and marked discrimination as a financier, with
the result that the institution has become an important factor in
connection with commercial and industrial activities in Carter
County. In May, 1914, was completed the attractive bank building
owned and occupied by the institution and eligibly situated at the
corner of Main Street and Broadway. The bank bases it operations on
capital stock of $25,000 and maintains a surplus fund of $5,000, Clyd
W. HENSEN being its efficient cashier.

Mr. McKay is unfailing in his support of measures and enterprises
tending to advance the civic and material progress and prosperity of
the community, is liberal and public-spirited and is actively aligned
as a supporter of the democratic party. He is a member of the
Oklahoma state Bankers' Association and in a fraternal way formerly
maintained active affiliation with the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows.

At Asher, Pottawatomie County, on the 19th of November, 1911, was
solemnized the marriage of Mr. McKay to Miss Vernon KENMORE, daughter
of William W. Kenmore, a representative merchant of that place. Of
the two children of this union the firstborn, a daughter, died at
birth on April 30, 1913, and the surviving child, Pink William
Kenmore McKay, was born November 17, 1914.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Paul Grose, December 13, 1998.