. History of Milwaukee, city and county . kee AthleticClub and the City Club and is prominent in Masonic circles, belonging to WisconsinCommandery, K. T., and to the Scottish Rite bodies and also to Tripoli Temple ofthe Mystic Shrine. Early in his career he recognized the fact that a modern phil-osopher has tersely stated that Opportunity is universal not local. It depends notupon a map but upon a time-table. He has used his talents wisely and well andwith him each day has marked off a full-faithed attempt to know moi-e and to growmore. ARTHUR NYE McGEOCH. Among those who are actively contribu
. History of Milwaukee, city and county . kee AthleticClub and the City Club and is prominent in Masonic circles, belonging to WisconsinCommandery, K. T., and to the Scottish Rite bodies and also to Tripoli Temple ofthe Mystic Shrine. Early in his career he recognized the fact that a modern phil-osopher has tersely stated that Opportunity is universal not local. It depends notupon a map but upon a time-table. He has used his talents wisely and well andwith him each day has marked off a full-faithed attempt to know moi-e and to growmore. ARTHUR NYE McGEOCH. Among those who are actively contributing to the development and progress ofWest AUis is Arthur Nye McGeoch, who is conducting a real estate and insuranceagency and has won a liberal clientage. His efforts have been a potent force in thedevelopment and improvement of the town and as the years have passed he has nego-tiated many important realty transfers. He was born in Milwaukee, April 19, 1869,and is a son of Peter and Catharine Ellen (Harvey) McGeoch. The father was born. OSCAR F. STOTZER HISTORY OF .MILWATKEE 161 in London, England, during a temiiorary sojourn of Ills parents in that city, they,however, being from Wigtown in Wigtownshire, Scotland. In 1851 William McGeoch,the giandtather, came to the United States with his family and settled in Waterloo,Jefferson county, Wisconsin. Peter McGeoch Ijecoming a resident of that place, thereengaged in shipping grain to llilwaukee and became a well known commission mer-chant of Wisconsin, building up a business of extensive and gratifying proportions inconnection with the grain trade. He became a member of the Milwaukee Board ofTrade, and also of the Chicago Board of Trade, and was one of the active factors inthe business life of this state to the time of his death, which occurred in He had for several years survived his wife, who passed away in 1S88. Arthur JlcGeoch was educated in the Markham Academy and in Harvard Univer-sity, from which he was gra
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