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Duncan McKechnie
Duncan McKechnie (originally Duncan McGeachy) (1 May 1831 – 7 December 1913) was a British chemical manufacturer and metal extractor. He was trained as a soap boiler in Glasgow and later moved to become a foreman at a soap and alkali factory in Runcorn, Cheshire. In 1869 he entered into partnership with two colleagues to run a new chemical factory in the town, but soon left to found his own company in St Helens. This company specialised in extracting and refining metals. It was sold to the United Alkali Company in 1891. After McKechnie's retirement his descendants continued to run factories bearing the name McKechnie into the 20th century.
==Early life and career==
Duncan McKechnie was born in 1831 as the illegitimate son of Duncan McGeachy, a farmer in Lailt, Kintyre, Scotland, and Helen Montgomery. Duncan McKechnie (then McGeachy) lived as a baby with his mother and their family, and in 1841 when he was aged 10, he was living with his grandfather in Lailt. During the next decade the family moved to Glasgow, and Duncan became an apprentice soap boiler with Neil Mathieson and Company. In 1858 he married Agnes Miller, and the following year their first child, Daniel, was born, followed by a daughter, Agnes, in 1861. In that year Duncan McGeachy changed his surname to McKechnie, (the anglicised version of McGeachy). Their third child, a daughter, was born in 1863, and in the following year the family moved to Runcorn, Cheshire, England. By this time Neil Mathieson was working in Runcorn as works manager for John & Thomas Johnson, soap and alkali makers. McKechnie was appointed as a foreman at the works, and lived for a short time with the Mathiesons in Heath House, Runcorn. However, in 1865 the Johnson brothers ran into financial difficulties, and their business was floated as a public company, known as the Runcorn Soap and Alkali company. McKechnie continued to work with this company, and during this time he gained experience in working with the extraction of copper from pyrites ash.
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