This
is a view of Hunter and Main Streets from atop the San Joaquin County
Courthouse c.1890.
The
building is the McKee Building, the second home of the Stockton
Savings and Loan Society, later to be known as the Bank of Stockton.
The McKee Building was erected by William F. McKee, a local businessman,
prior to his death in 1875.
McKee
was born in Pennsylvania in 1824 and came to California in 1851,
via the Isthmus of Panama. He became a clerk, then Assistant Postmaster,
in the Stockton Post Office. He began a partnership in a mercantile
business with B.W. Owens, and later Edward Moore, under the name
Owens, Moore and McKee. L.U. Shippee joined forces with McKee and
Shippee, McKee and Company was founded. McKee and Southworth succeeded
that enterprise.
The
bank was housed here from 1875 until 1908, when it was moved to
the corner of Main and San Joaquin Streets. Later, this building
was used as the Sterling Department Store until it was demolished
in the 1960's.
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