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HENRY SQUAREBRIGGS MAC KAY, JR.
Henry Squarebriggs Mac Kay, Jr.,
member of the Los Angles law firm of Flint & Mac Kay since 1920, has also
long figured prominently in public affairs and is widely known for his active
cooperation in various projects looking toward civic welfare and
advancement. A native of Longwood,
Massachusetts, he was born October 17, 1891, being a son of Henry Squarebriggs and Robena M. Mac
Kay, who accorded him liberal educational advantages in his youth. He attended the Harvard Military School of
Los Angeles, California; St. Paul’s School of Long Island, New York; the University
School of San Francisco, California; the Los Angeles High School of Los
Angeles, California; and the University of Virginia, being a student in the
last named institution from 1909 until 1914.
He was manager of baseball and president of the Athletic Association of
the University of Virginia in 1913-14 and is a member of the Phi Delta Theta,
TNE and Phi Delta Phi fraternities [sic].
Following his graduation from the
University of Virginia, Henry S. Mac Kay, Jr., became associated with the law
firm of Flint & Jutten of Los Angeles, in which
he was afterward a partner from 1915 until 1920. Since the latter year, as previously
indicated, he has practiced his chosen profession as partner in the firm of
Flint & Mac Kay, with offices at 1232 Rowan building [sic] in Los
Angeles. From the beginning his career
has been unusually prosperous in every respect.
The success which he has attained is due to his own efforts and
merit. The possession of advantages is
no guarantee whatever of professional advancement. This comes not of itself nor can it be
secured without integrity, ability and industry. These qualities Mr. Mac Kay possesses to an
eminent degree and he is faithful to every interest committed to his
charge. Aside from his professional
activities he has important business interests as president and director of the
Valley Water Company of La Cañada, California; vice
president of the Evening Herald Publishing Company, publishers of the Los
Angeles Evening Herald and Express; and vice president of the Southern Counties
Land Company of Los Angeles, California.
The military record of Mr. Mac Kay
covers service as a second lieutenant in the machine gun section of the United
States Infantry Reserve in 1918, and he is a member of Pasadena Post No. 13 of
the American Legion. His interests and
activities have been broad in scope and varied in character. He
served as a trustee of La Cañada school [sic]
district [sic] in 1915 and has always been a stalwart champion of the cause of
education. In 1931 he was director of
the All Year Club of Southern California.
In 1932 he went to Chicago as a member of the California delegation to
the democratic [sic] national [sic] convention [sic] and in the same year he
was a director of the Tenth Olympiad Committee of the Games of Los Angeles,
U.S.A. In 1933 he served as chairman of
the advisory committee of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation on earthquake
rehabilitation loans. Mr. Mac Kay is the
president of the La Cañada Chamber of Commerce,
president of the Pasadena Progressive Democratic Club and president of the
Pasadena Progressive Democratic Club and president of the Crescenta-Cañada
Democratic Club. He served as chairman
of NRA activities for Los Angeles county [sic] in 1933; was a director of the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1934-5; director of the Fish & Game Development
Association in 1933-35; a director of the Automobile Club of Southern
California, 1935; member of the citizens committee of
Los
Angeles County Welfare in 1933; chairman of the CWA wage scale board in 1934;
chairman of the business [sic] advisory [sic] counsel [sic] of Los Angeles in
1934; general chairman of the Los Angeles Better Housing Campaign in 1934-5;
chairman of the Americanization committee [sic] of the Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce in 1934; and chairman of the advisory committee to the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation on earthquake and flood relief in 1934-5.
On the 6th of October,
1914, in Los Angeles, Mr. Mac Kay was united in marriage to Miss Katharine P.
Flint, daughter of United States Senator Frank P. Flint. Mr. and Mrs. Mac Kay are the parents of a
son, Sandy, and reside in an attractive home at 810 Highland drive [sic],
Flintridge. In religious faith Mr. Mac
Kay is an Episcopalian, while fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic
bodies, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and has crossed the sand of the desert with the Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine. He enjoys deserved
popularity among his fellow members of the California Club of Los Angeles, the
Flintridge Country Club of Pasadena, the Tuna Club of Catalina Island, the
Newport Harbor Yacht Club of Balboa and the Cerritos Gun Club of Los Angeles
county [sic].
“As has well been said by one
specially familiar with his career, Mr. Mac Kay is a citizen of far-reaching
influence in his community, a pioneer in the progress that has made Los Angeles
county [sic] the prosperous and well-contained area which it has become, a
leader who contributed liberally to the advancement of Los Angeles.”
He is one of the best known men in
California and is not a stranger to the world when he steps outside of the
borders of his own state as he has participated in many activities that have
brought him in contact with the best minds of the nation. He has done much to further the civic and
material upbuilding of Los Angeles and such have been
his life and labors as one of the world’s great army of constructive workers
that there is all of consistency in according him representation in this
publication.
Transcribed by Jeanne Turner.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V,
by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 315-317,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Jeanne
Turner.
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