Los Angeles County
Biographies
DONALD MacKAY
Donald MacKay is a well known and able attorney of Los Angeles, specializing in criminal trial practice. He was born in Marlette, Michigan, April 8, 1892, his parents being William M. and Mira (Davis) MacKay, the former of straight Scotch descent and a native of Zora, Ontario, Canada, born October 15, 1859. The mother, of Welsh, Holland Dutch, English and Scotch lineage, was born May 26, 1867. Both are living.
Donald MacKay was a boy of eleven years when in 1903 he came to Los Angeles, California, where he has remained continuously throughout the intervening period. His grammar school education was supplemented by attendance at the Polytechnic high school of this city, while his professional training was received as a student at the College of Law of the University of Southern California, from which he graduated in 1923. Prior to preparing for law practice, however, he had followed carpentering for six years, from 1911 until 1917, and subsequently spent seven years as a Los Angeles police officer. He next served as deputy district attorney of Los Angeles county from 1924 until 1928, during which period he held the positions of deputy district attorney in connection with the complaint department; superior court trail deputy; deputy in charge of the calendar department; deputy in charge of the corporate securities act department; and chief trial deputy district attorney. In the year 1928 he began the private practice of law in Los Angeles, where he has specialized in criminal trial practice to the present time with excellent success.
On the 10th of September, 1913, Mr. MacKay was married in Los Angeles, but the union ended in a legal separation, and on the 29th of July, 1933, he married his second wife. He has two children, Alan Donald and Jean Helen MacKay, residing at 1400 Cheviotdale drive, Pasadena.
Mr. MacKay is a stalwart democrat but has never sought nor held any political office. His military record cover four months’ service with the merchant marine. His religious faith is that of the Methodist Church and he is also a worthy exemplar of the teachings and purposes of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Henry Knox Lodge of Los Angeles. He is likewise affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and with Lodge No.99 of the benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and enjoys high standing in fraternal and social as well as professional circles of his adopted city.
Transcribed by K.V. Bunker.
Source: California
of the South Vol. V,
by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 635-636,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2013 K.V. Bunker.
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