Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A mụrụ McIver na September 25, 1826, na nso Society Hill, South Carolina nye Alexander McIver na Mary Hanford McIver. Nna nna ya bụ Captain William Dewitt. Ya na ezinụlọ ya kwagara Cheraw, South Carolina na 1836. N'afọ 1846, ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na kọleji South Carolina (nke bụzi Mahadum South Carolina). Ọ gụrụ iwu na nna ya mgbe ọ gụsịrị mahadum, a nabatara ya ka ọ na-eme iwu na Disemba 1847. ọ lụrụ Caroline H. Powe na June 7, 1849. Mgbe nna McIver nwụrụ na July 1850, Gọvanọ Whitemarsh B. Seabrook họpụtara McIver ka ọ rụchaa oge nna ya dị ka onye ọka iwu (onye ọka iwu) maka mpaghara ọwụwa anyanwụ nke steeti ahụ. Na ngwụcha nke oge ahụ, McIver agbaghị ọsọ maka oge zuru ezu; agbanyeghị, onye nọchiri ya n'onwe ya nwụrụ n'ọfịs, a họpụtakwara McIver ọzọ iji mechie oge a na-agwụbeghị. Na ngwụcha nke okwu nke abụọ ahụ, a họpụtara McIver ka ọ bụrụ onye isi oche. A nọgidere na-ahọpụta ya n'ọkwa ahụ ruo 1868 mgbe ewepụrụ ya n'ọfịs dịka akụkụ nke Mweghachi. McIver, onye na-anọchite anya Chesterfield District, so na ndị bịanyere aka n'akwụkwọ nke South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession na Disemba 1860. O mechara jee ozi dịka onye isi n'otu ndị agha nke anọ nke South Carolina ma merụọ ya ahụ nke ukwuu n'agha nke
Ụlọ ahịa Haw, Va., wee laghachi n'ọrụ iwu ya mgbe Agha Obodo gasịrị. Na Mee 19, 1877, a họpụtara ya dịka onye ọka ikpe nke Ụlọikpe Kasị Elu nke South Carolina iji mejupụta oge ikpe ikpe Ammiel J. Willard nke ghọrọ onye ọka ikpe nke ụlọ ikpe ahụ. Ndị General Assembly họpụtara McIver n'otu olu maka oge zuru ezu na Disemba 1879. O jere ozi n'ọkwa ahụ ruo mgbe a họpụtara ya ma ṅụọ iyi ozugbo dị ka onye ọka ikpe ukwu na Disemba 1, 1891, na-anọchi Chief Justice William D. Simpson.