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John William Mackay (November 28, 1831 – July 20, 1902) was an Irish-American industrialist who rose from rags to riches. Born into abject poverty and raised in the slums of New York City, Mackay became one of the four Bonanza Kings, a partnership which capitalized on the wealth generated by the silver mines at the Comstock Lode in Nevada, making him one of the richest Americans in his time.
On 16 September 1890 she married John William Mackay, a New Zealander, and their daughter Mona Innis (later a children's novelist) was born in Adelaide in 1892. Shortly after, they moved to Whangārei in New Zealand, where their son Cyril Augustine (known as Ian) was born in 1894.
Harbor Hill in 1922. Clarence Mackay (1874–1938) was the son of Comstock Lode magnate John William Mackay, and inherited much of an estimated $500 million fortune upon his father's death in 1902 (approximately $13 billion in 2012 dollars).
John Mackay, 1st of the family of Aberach was a younger son of Angus Du Mackay, 7th of Strathnaver, chief of the Clan Mackay.His mother was a daughter of Alexander Carrach MacDonald, chief of the Clan MacDonald of Keppoch, who in turn was a son of John of Islay, Lord of the Isles (chief of Clan Donald) whose wife was a daughter of Robert II of Scotland.
In 1871, Irish-Americans John William Mackay, James Graham Fair, James Clair Flood, and William S. O'Brien, organized the Consolidated Virginia Silver Mine near Virginia City, Nevada, from a number of smaller claims on the Comstock Lode and later added the nearby California mine. Mackay and Fair had the mining knowledge and Flood and O'Brien ...
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Mackay and her husband, Clarence, were divorced in February 1914. [26] She also gave up her American citizenship. [27] Full custody of their three children, Katherine Duer, Ellin Duer and John William, was given to Clarence Mackay. [19] On November 28, 1914, she married Blake in Paris. [28] Mrs. Clarence Mackay and her three children.