Figure 1.--This is Clarence McKay and his three children: Ellin, John, amd Katherine. The photograph was taken about 1912. I'm also not sure just what John is wearing, but their mother seems to have coordinated their outfits. |
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The McKay dynasty was founded by John who was born in Dublin, Ireland. He had no money when he arrived in America (1840). He quit school to support the family. He eventually went to California and made his forture in Virginia City silver mines. His children were raiised in great luxury in Paris and London. His granddaughter Ellin married Irving Berlin, the famed American composer. The Mckays of course were Catholic and the marriage was against her father's wishes because Berlin was Jewish. (Berlin's family had been driven out of Russia like so many other Jews by Tsar Alexander III's pogroms. (His earliest memory as a little boy was waking up on a blanket to see his home being reduced to ashes as part of a pogrom.) A portrait with their father Clarence McKay shows Ellen with her brother John and sister Kathleen, I think about 1912. I'm not sure what the badges they are wearing are about. I'm also not sure just what John is wearing, but their mother seems to have coordinated their outfits. I know nothing about what happened to John who was named aftervhis grandfather.
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