Harry McKenzie
HARRY McKENZIE paid Tribute
Herbert Mengert writer of former Waverly Newspaper Publisher.
Writing in his column in Sunday's Cincinnati Enquirer, Herbert E. Mengert had the following to say concerning the late Harry A. McKenzie, formerly Waverly Newspaper publisher:
"No more militant exponent of Pike County lived than Harry A. McKenzie, who passed away in Columbus last week. In the year long gone he published and edited a weekly newspaper in Waverly and he fought the Democrats of that region with all the strength he had in traditional ways that contests in politics were carried on. But, the elections being over, they were ended and he much resented the attempt to smear the name of old Pike. McKenzie loved the people and the hills and plains of that region and when he realized that life was ebbing he asked to be placed in final repose amid its hills.
"Now that he is gone it can be told that he personally stopped a snooping expedition that had been arranged for that region nearly a score of years ago."
"Mr. McKenzie was associated with late Congressman Charles C. Kearns of the Sixth District and served the National House of Representatives. He did scouting service for the Republican National congressional Committee in years past, and his judgment about affairs political was trusted in the National Capitol by the leaders of former years. In the state service under recent Sinking Fund commission and continued under the present Secretary, John E. Sweeney. Mr. McKenzie was always the friend of reporters, one of those persons with a nose
Personally, he was a kindly gentleman but the quality that impressed many was his love for the hills of Southern Ohio."
At the top of the weekly newsletter from the Secretary of State's Office, which Mr. McKenzie conducted up to the time of his death, was the following memoriam this week:
In Memoriam
"The personnel of the Department of State pauses to pay a tribute to one of its number, Harry A. McKenzie, Secretary of the State Sinking fund commission for a long term of years and the Editor of this weekly bulletin, who died during the past week at the age of 70. Harry McKenzie was a native of Waverly, Ohio, and for eight years was an Assistant Sergeant at Arms of the National House of Representatives, Washington, D. C."
September 24, 1942
The Republican Herald
PCGHS Newsletter - January 1997
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