chmackay

Clarence Hungerford Mackay (1874-1938), American financier; his wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Mackay The children are John William Mackay, Ellin Mackay, and Katherine Mackay: Ellin Mackay (1903-1988) married Irving Berlin in 1926; Clarence disapproved, and he threatened disinheritance. Ellin Berlin became a novelist: www.nytimes.com/1988/07/30/obituaries/ellin-berlin-85-a-n... Her papers are at the University of Nevada Reno: knowledgecenter.unr.edu/specoll/mss/90-87.html John William Mackay married Josephine Gwendolyn Rose in 1929. Katherine Mackay married twice, to judge Kenneth O'Brien (divorced in 1937), and to lawyer Robert Ziemer Hawkins (1903-1979) in 1939; she lived in Reno, Nevada. Her papers are at UC Berkeley: www.oac.cdlib.org/search?style=oac4;titlesAZ=k;idT=UCb112...

Thanks so much pennylrichardsca for your extensive research into this family and for providing the links for those who may want more information. Amazing stories. We'll fill in the names for this record the next time we update.

Eldest daughter Katherine and C.H. Mackay at a wedding in the summer of 1915:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Thoroughbred Horse Racing, and we'd love to have this added to the group!