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Mrs. Arch McKay

A local historian of Jefferson, Texas, she helped preserve the story of one of East Texas’s best-known river towns. Her surviving work is a compact, community-minded history created for readers who love regional history and forgotten places.

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A History of Jefferson, Marion County, Texas, 1836-1936

A History of Jefferson, Marion County, Texas, 1836-1936

by Mrs. Arch McKay, Mrs. H. A. Spellings

About the author

Mrs. Arch McKay is credited as a co-compiler, with Mrs. H. A. Spellings, of A History of Jefferson, Marion County, Texas, 1836-1936. The book was prepared as a history of Jefferson, Texas, and Project Gutenberg’s text notes that proceeds from its sale were to benefit the Women’s Auxiliary of Christ Episcopal Church.

Very little biographical information about her is easy to confirm from the sources found here. However, bookseller and catalog records consistently connect her with Jefferson and with this long-reprinted local history, suggesting that her reputation rests on helping preserve the town’s memory rather than on a large published body of work.

Because reliable personal-profile sources are scarce, it is safest to remember her as a civic-minded compiler of regional history whose book has remained in circulation for decades for readers interested in Jefferson and Marion County.