Background
Mcneal, Thomas Allen was born on October 14, 1853 in Marion County, Ohio, United States. Son of Allen and Rachel (Brownlee) Mcneal.
Mcneal, Thomas Allen was born on October 14, 1853 in Marion County, Ohio, United States. Son of Allen and Rachel (Brownlee) Mcneal.
Educated Ohio Central, Oberlin and Hillsdale colleges to junior year. Farmed and taught school alternately. Settled at Medicine Lodge, Kansas, 1879.
One of editors of Medicine Lodge Cresset, 1879-1884. Established Kansas Breeze, 1894, later consolidated it with the North Topeka Mail as Farmers Mail and Breeze, of which is editors Associate editor Topeka Daily Capital.
Member Kansas Legislature, 1885-1886-1887. Member State Text Book Commission, 1915-1923.
Married Anna Belle McPherson, August 26, 1884 (died June 11, 1920).