WILL U. MACKEY, deputy state printer of Nevada and mayor of Carson City, came to the Comstock in
1866. He is a native of Hannibal, Missouri, where he was born in 1861, and comes of Scotch ancestrv,
although several generations of the family have lived in the United States. On the paternal side
they are related to the noted Sam Houston of Texas, and on the maternal side to the famous Stowe
family. Uriah Mackey, the father of Mr. Mackey, was a prominent man in Missouri, but died when the
latter was only ten months old. At the time of his death he was city marshal of Hannibal. Missouri.
He married Miss Martha Thompson, of Illinois, and a daughter of John Thompson, of the same state.
After the death of her husband Mrs. Mackey came to Nevada, bringing her son, Will, then five years
of age, and she now resides in Carson City, being sixty-nine years of age. Mr. Mackey was reared and
educated in the public schools of Virginia City, also attending the business college of E. C.
Atkinson in Sacramento. California. He learned the trade of printer in the offices of the Virginia
Chronicle and the old Gold Hill News, also working as foreman of the Austin Reveille and the Nevada
Tribune, and for a short time, in 1883. was foreman of the Commercial Advertiser in Honolulu. For
the past twenty years he has worked intermittently in the state printing office, and continuously
for the past nine years. He is a thorough printer, understanding every detail of the business, and
his office is a model. From boyhood he has been a Democrat, and as the present mayor of Carson City
he is proving himself a good business man and upright statesman, and is giving the people a clean,
honorable administration. He received President Roosevelt on the occasion of the presidential visit
to Carson City in May. 1903.

In 1894 Mr. Mackey was married to Miss Eva L. Chapman, a native of California, and one daughter,
Dorothy, has been born of this union. Fraternally Mr. Mackey is a member of the Free and Accepted
Masons, and he and his wife are members of the Eastern Star and of the Rathbone Sisters. He is also
a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Typographical Union. Mr. Mackay is admitted to be one of
the state's best known and most highly respected citizens, and one whose future looks very bright,
to judge by the past.

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