History of northern Wisconsin: containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources, an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, views of county seats, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881. p.1154

H.W. McKoy, lumberman and logger; established in 1863; of the firm of Kellogg, Rumery & Co.; employs usually seventy-five men; gets out about five million feet annually. Mr. McKoy was born in Caledonia Co., Vt., March 13, 1834; he left there with his parents at the age of seven years, and moved to Nashua, N.H., where he lived until 1849; then went to Bangor, Me., and clerked in a store until 1852; then he went around Cape Horn to California, and there followed mining two years; then engaged in lumbering eight years; after which he returned to Oshkosh, Wis., and engaged in lumbering and the manufacture of the same nine years; since which he has been engaged in logging. He is also engaged largely in the cattle business in Texas, owning, in company with O.J. Wiren & Co., a ranch with 10,000 head of cattle. He was married in California, August, 1860, to Miss Mary J. Goe; she was born in Crawford Co., Penn.; they have two children- Mary B. and James W., also Horace W., deceased, and Anna, deceased.