Résumé

According to Jeffrey Karl Ochsner and Dennis Alan Andersen, MacKay came to Seattle, WA, on 04/18/1882, at the request of the Head of the Sisters of Providence religious order, Mother Joseph; she hoped to build religious, educational and health care facilities in the region; MacKay had come from Walla Walla, WA, where he had worked as a builder beginning in 06/1880. (See Jeffrey Karl Ochsner and Dennis Alan Andersen, Distant Corner, Seattle Architects and the Legacy of H.H. Richardson, [Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2003,] p. 30).

As Ochsner and Andersen point out, there were two Donald Mackays working in the Pacific Northwest in the 1880s; Donald McKay in Seattle, WA, was born in Scotland, came to Walla Walla, WA, in 06/1880, and then to Seattle in 1882 and Donald MacKay working in Portland, OR, as a building contractor. No clear death date for the MacKay of Seattle is currently known.

Relocation

MacKay was born in Scotland c. 1846.

In 1882, McKay resided in the Occidental Hotel in Seattle, WA. (See Seattle, Washington, City Directory, 1882, p. 46.)

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