15 Facts About Clarence Mackay

Clarence Hungerford Mackay was an American financier.

Clarence Mackay was chairman of the board of the Postal Telegraph and Cable Corporation and president of the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company.

Clarence Mackay was born on April 17,1874, in San Francisco, California, to Louise Antoinette Bryant Mackay and John William Mackay.

Clarence Mackay's father was a silver miner and telegraph mogul who had been born in Dublin and emigrated to America with his parents.

Clarence Mackay's father had married his mother and adopted her daughter by an earlier marriage.

Clarence Mackay sold his major source of income, the Postal Telegraph Company, to the new International Telephone and Telegraph Company for an enormous amount of stock.

Clarence Mackay survived the Great Depression by selling his art and antiques.

Clarence Mackay was eventually reconciled with his daughter Ellin and her husband Irving Berlin when he went to comfort her on the cot death of her baby.

Around 1897, Clarence Mackay met Katherine Alexander Duer, a debutante from an old, high society, New York family that he met on a steamship crossing between New York and England.

Clarence Mackay was a descendant of Lady Kitty Duer, daughter of Lord Stirling.

Clarence Mackay's wedding gift to Case was a platinum-set emerald and diamond necklace.

Clarence Mackay's funeral was at St Patrick's Cathedral where the New York Philharmonic played.

Anna Case Clarence Mackay donated her diamond necklace to the Smithsonian Institution in 1984.

Clarence Mackay was a noted collector of medieval suits of armor, some of which he sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the early 1930s.

The Clarence Mackay Mountains are a prominent group of peaks 10 nautical miles south of the Allegheny Mountains in the Ford Ranges of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.