JOHN

See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM

See also:

• MACKAY
• MACKAY, CHARLES (1814–1889)
• MACKAY, HUGH (c. 164o-169z)
• JOHN WILLIAM MACKAY (1831–1902)

MACKAY (1831–1902)  , American capitalist, was born in Dublin, Ireland, on the 28th of November 1831 . His parents brought him in 1840 to New York City, where he worked in a ship-yard . In 1851 he went to California and worked in placer gold-mines in Sierra county . In 1852 he went to Virginia City, Nevada, and there, after losing all he had made in California, he formed with James G . Fair, James C . Flood and William S . O'Brien the firm which in 1873 discovered the great Bonanza vein, more than 1200 ft. deep, in the Comstock lode (yielding in March of that year as much as $632 per ton, and in 1877 nearly $19,000,000 altogether); and this firm established the Bank of Nevada in San Francisco . In 1884, with James Gordon Bennett, Mackay formed the Commercial Cable Company—largely to fight Jay Gould and the Western Union Telegraph Company—laid two transatlantic cables, and forced the toll-rate for trans-atlantic messages down to twenty-five cents a word . In connexion with the Commercial Cable Company he formed the Postal Telegraph Company . Mackay died on the loth of July 1902 in London . He gave generously, especially to the charities of the Roman Catholic Church, and endowed the Roman Catholic orphan asylum in Virginia City, Nevada . In June 1908 a school of mines was presented to the University of Nevada, as a memorial to him, by his widow and his son, Clarence H .

Mackay .