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James Morrison Steele MacKaye

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• • Father of Benton MacKaye — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • James Morrison MacKaye 
  • Mother:
  • Emily Benton Steele   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Jun 1842 
  • Birth Location:
  • Buffalo, Erie, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Feb 1894 
  • Death Location:
  • La Junta, Otero, Colorado 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, Bronx Co., New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Ellen Keith Medbery
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Jun 1865 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Harold Steele MacKaye

  William Payson MacKaye

  James Medbury MacKaye

  Percy Wallace Loring MacKaye

  Emile Benton MacKaye (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Mary Hazel MacKaye

  • Notes: 

  • aka Steele MacKaye

    American Stage Actor, Playwright and Inventor

• Sources for James Morrison Steele MacKaye

  • ¹ Annals of an Era, Percy MacKaye and the MacKaye Family, 1826-1932: A Record of Biography and History, Hanover, New Hampshire: Published under the Auspices of Dartmouth College (1932), 434-435, 443.
  • ² Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 15 MAY 1924, p. 7, Obituary for spouse Mary Medbery Mackaye.
  • ³ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 6249, Membership application for Percy MacKaye.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/05/2024).
  • ⁵ The New York Times (New York, New York), 03 FEB 1913, p. 11, Obituary for half-brother Dr. Henry G. MacKaye.
  • ⁶ Dickerman, Edward Dwight and George Sherwood Dickerman, Dickerman Genealogy: Descendants of Thomas Dickerman, an Early Settler of Dorchester, Massachusetts, New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Press (1922), 118, gives James's death date as 26 FEB 1894.
  • ⁷ MacKaye, Percy, Epoch: The Life of Steele MacKaye, Genius of the Theatre, In Relation to His Times and Contemporaries, Vol. 2, New York: Boni and Liveright (1927), xxxv, xxxix (appendix).
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Steele MacKaye", (accessed 07/05/2024).