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See also:MACKAY, See also: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 (1831–1902) , See also:American capitalist, was See also:born in See also:Dublin, See also:Ireland, on the 28th of See also:November 1831. His parents brought him in 1840 to New See also:York See also:City, where he worked in a See also:ship-yard. In 1851 he went to See also:California and worked in placer See also:gold-mines in Sierra See also:county. In 1852 he went to See also:Virginia City, See also:Nevada, and there, after losing all he had made in California, he formed with See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James G. See also:Fair, James C. See also:Flood and William S. O'Brien the See also:firm which in 1873 discovered the See also:great Bonanza vein, more than 1200 ft. deep, in the Comstock lode (yielding in See also:March of that See also:year as much as $632 per ton, and in 1877 nearly $19,000,000 altogether); and this firm established the See also:Bank of Nevada in See also:San Francisco. In 1884, with James See also:Gordon See also:Bennett, Mackay formed the Commercial See also:Cable See also:Company—largely to fight See also:Jay See also:Gould and the Western See also:Union See also:Telegraph Company—laid two transatlantic cables, and forced the See also:toll-See also:rate for trans-See also: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 See also:July 1902 in See also:London. He gave generously, especially to the charities of the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, and endowed the Roman Catholic See also:orphan See also:asylum in Virginia City, Nevada. In See also:June 1908 a school of mines was presented to the University of Nevada, as a memorial to him, by his widow and his son, See also:Clarence H. Mackay.
End of Article: MACKAY, JOHN WILLIAM (1831–1902)
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