John McKim Jr.
John McKim Jr. was an American merchant and early railroad executive based in Baltimore, Maryland.
On February 28, 1814, McKim and seven other gentlemen of Baltimore hosted a dinner for General William H. Winder.
In 1827, McKim was one of the state-appointed commissioners who helped incorporate the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
In 1838, McKim was a director of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, a company formed by the merger of four railroads that created the first rail link from Philadelphia to Baltimore. McKim's service as a railroad executive is noted on the 1839 Newkirk Viaduct Monument in Philadelphia.
Personal life
On July 11, 1793, McKim married Margaret Telfair. The couple had at least one child, David Telfair McKim, who married Mary Malvina Hawkins.A granddaughter, Emilie McKim Reed, helped found the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and was appointed by the governor of Maryland as the state's commissioner to the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Another granddaughter, Elizabeth Virginia McKim Hazlehurst, married one of the other men memorialized on the Newkirk Monument, Henry Richard Hazlehurst, on October 4, 1852, at St. Paul's Church in Baltimore. They had six children.