John W. MacKay signed California 1860's dated check - Western Mining Magnate - A For Sale

Check on the Bank of California with a nice signature of Mackay out of Virginia City, Nevada. Two 2 cents revenue stamps! Rare! John William Mackay (November 28, 1831 " July 20, 1902) was an Irish-American industrialist. Mackay was one of the four Bonanza Kings, a partnership which capitalised on the wealth generated by the silver mines at the Comstock Lode. He also headed a telegraph business that laid transatlantic cables and he helped finance the New York, Texas and Mexican Railway Company. John William Mackay was born in Dublin to a working-class family. they had a dirt floor hovel shared with a pig. In 1840, the family emigrated to the notorious Five Points slum in lower Manhattan; his father died soon after. As a boy Mackay hawked newspapers such as the New York Herald, and later apprenticed at William H. Webb Shipyard to support his mother and sister. Read more at Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.

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