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Benton MacKaye

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Mary Ellen Keith Medbery

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• • Mother of Benton MacKaye — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • Nicholas Medbery 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Belknap Stetson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Jul 1845 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 May 1924 
  • Death Location:
  • Alexandria, Virginia 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • James Morrison Steele MacKaye
  • 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

• Sources for Mary Ellen Keith Medbery

  • 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.
  • ² Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 15 MAY 1924, p. 7, Obituary for Mary Medbery Mackaye.
  • ³ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 6249, Membership application for Percy MacKaye.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newburyport, Vol. 1, p. 259, Birth record for Mary Ellen Medbury.
  • ⁵ 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 Mary's birthdate as 11 JUL 1845.
  • ⁶ 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).
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Benton MacKaye", (accessed 07/05/2024).