From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Pages 538 - 539
 
THOMAS McKAIG, son of William, whose wife was named Dawson, was of a Scotch-
Irish family of Ulster.  He was born at Stewartstown, county Tyrone, December 
12, 1812.  He crossed the sea in 1831, and five years were passed at Quebec and 
Detroit, part of that time as a teacher.  In 1836 he was employed in the land 
office survey of northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.  He chose a farm in 
section 29, north of Duck Lake, and was employed in platting the village of 
Geneva; and kept so far in touch with its citizens as to play the trombone in 
its earliest brass band, and to become a member of its division of the Sons of 
Temperance.  He was once of the earliest justices of the county and remained 
several years in service.  From 1847 to 1853 he was county surveyor.  He 
married July 25, 1840, Asenath, daughter of Robert DUNLAP, a soldier of the 
Revolution, and Mary LETTS.  He died August 24, 1888.  Mrs. McKAIG was born at 
Ovid, New York, December 11, 1811, and died at Elkhorn, March 25, 1906.  They 
had six children, of whom a daughter and three sons are living.  Mrs. McKAIG, 
in her old age, joined the Milwaukee Chapter of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution, and in recognition of her now unusual qualification for such 
membership she received from that body a gold spoon of an appropriate device.

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