William James McKeown
Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 21 November 1934, page 3
FESTIVAL-Arrangements for the three day fall festival of the Immaculate Conception Parish opened yesterday at the Knights of Columbus Hall, with Steve McDonough as the general chairman. Among the committee chairmen and members are: bar Committee, William J McKeown.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 22 October 1935, page 5
ELECTION-Laurence J Gammon, Mayor; Commissioner: Paul Bardo 3937; William J McKeown 814.
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 26 March 1938, page 1
FEES CHECKED-Newport city manager J B Morlidge and William J McKeown, city license inspector, have been enforcing provisions of the city's occupational license ordinance. McKeown said he found a many instances certain merchants and professional men have continued to carry on their businesses although they have been delinquent in the occupational licenses for the past two or three years.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 6 April 1940, page 1
FAIL TO PAY-Twenty-two Newport attorneys will appear in the role of defendants acting as their own counsel in Newport Police Court next week should they fail to pay their $8 occupational license fee. The barristers will be cited next week by William McKeown city license inspector, should they fail to comply with notice sent them by the license inspector.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 17 August 1951, page 1
NEWPORT-William J (Tug) McKeown, 71, Newport city license inspector since
1938, died suddenly at his home late Thursday. Mr. McKeown, who lived at 813
Dayton street, suffered a heart attack. A veteran of the Spanish American War,
Mr. McKeown was a member of Captain A M Wetherill Spanish American War Veterans
Camp. He also was a member of the Holy Name Society of Immaculate Conception
Church.
McKeown leaves his widow, Margaret Tobin McKeown, two brothers, Hugh J, Davenport Fla. and frank J of Chicago; and two sisters, Mrs. Stella Forgerty, Covington and Mrs. John Mall, Paterson, N J. A number of nieces and nephews also survive. Mr. McKeown, a life long resident of Newport, had been active in Democratic political affairs for 50 years.
Services will be held Monday with prayers at 9:30 am from the William J Betz funeral home, Newport and Requiem High Mass at 10 am at Immaculate Conception Church. Burial will be in St Stephen Cemetery.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 18 August 1951, page 2
WORKER-It has been our observation over the years that no matter where you go, you'll always find, whether it be in a business concern or municipality, one class of workers who do their jobs conscientiously and with their employer's welfare at heart. We're reminded of the good job a former Newport official did down through the years, even when ill health worked against him at every turn.
We refer to William J (Tug) McKeown, Newport city license inspector since 1938, who never did anything but a good job for the city and the people he served. Tug died Thursday of a heart attack at 71 years of age. His record of public service was without blemish from the time, more than half a century ago when he served in the Spanish American War. Newport has lost a good public official as it probably already knows.