Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....McKay, John A. September 22, 1844 - November 19, 1907
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Source: Vol. II  pg.66  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present   

       JOHN A. McKAY, son of JAMES and MATILDA (ALEXANDER) McKAY, was born in 
Mobile, Alabama, September 22, 1844, and at the age of two years was brought by 
his parents to Tampa. From early boyhood he was engaged with his father in the 
various business enterprises established and conducted by the latter. His 
business career was largely along the same lines as followed by his father, and 
he was an active factor in the affairs of the city and the times. He, in 
addition to his other business enterprises, engaged extensively in railroad 
construction work, as a contractor. He built the Atlantic Coast Line Bridge on 
Polk Street, in Tampa, also the line of the railroad from Bartow to Phosphoria, 
having associated with him on his last-mentioned contract with his son, D. B. 
McKAY, now the owner and editor of the Tampa Times. JOHN A. McKAY, like his 
father before him, held a master’s license, operated vessels, and was engaged
in the shipping and cattle business. He served as United States collector of
customs, for the Port of Tampa, for many years. He married MARY JANE McCARTY, a
daughter of MITCHELL McCARTY, a pioneer of Tampa and one of its early
merchants. She was born in Tampa, and on the maternal side was a descendent of
the Simmons family, which is numbered among the early settlers of the section.
JOHN A. McKAY died in Tampa, November 19, 1907, and was followed in death by
his wife February 15, 1912. To them had been born seven children, one dying in
infancy, the others, all residents of Tampa, are in the order of their birth:
DONALD BRENHAM; MARGARET A., now Mrs. C. C. WOODWARD; CHARLES A.; MITCHELL F.;
ADA MARION, now Mrs. LAWSON MAGRUDER, and KENNETH I.


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