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Albert &
Agnes Mullin Kellogg
Charles
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Hugh
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Dr. McKay and Sylvia and one son:
Married second March 17, 1908 in Madison County,
Nebraska to
1885 Nebraska State Census - Burnett Village,
Jefferson, Madison County, Nebraska 1880 Census -
Croton Avenue, 3rd Ward, New Castle, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania 1900 Census -
South 9th, Norfolk Township, Madison County, Nebraska
1900 Census - Norfolk Avenue, Norfolk, Madison
County, Nebraska
1900 Census - Madison, Madison County, Nebraska
1910 Census - 418 Madison Avenue, Madison,
Madison County, Nebraska
1920 Census - 812 La Branch Street, Justice
Precinct #1, Houston, Harris County, Texas |
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Dr. MacKay a very prominent physician of Norfolk, Nebraska, is starting his residence and he will build in keeping with the remainder of the town. The doctor and Mrs. MacKay had several contracts and they have traded around until their residence lots are together in the northeast portion of the city and not very far out.
Francitas Bee, December 22, 1910 |
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In Dr. J. H. Mackay, Francitas has a physician who is very prominent in Nebraska medical circles. he is secretary of the Elkhorn Valley Medical Society of Nebraska, and the programs for the mid-winter meeting of that society have just been printed in the office of the Francitas Bee. Dr. Mackay has started on his office building and in the lower story he intends to put in a stock of drugs, though up to this time the doctor has been attending to his several tracts of land rather than attending to sick people. In fact sickness has not yet developed.
Francitas Bee, December 29, 1910 |
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Editor Bee.--Nothing discourages settlers in a new country so much as ill health and while the climate of Francitas is remarkably salubrious, no person in any place can afford to neglect those precautions which scientific research has shown us to be necessary to avoid preventable sickness for it is unfortunately very true that a large percentage of the ill health in any community comes from preventable causes. Decaying fruits and vegetables are a menace to health and all fruits and vegetables should be well washed before being served for food as they carry germs from the soil, from insects or from persons handling them. Many species of vermin such as the flea, mosquito and wood tick are the hosts that transmit disease and for this reason children should not be allowed to fondle pets and cats and dogs should be kept out of the house. Quarantine and disinfection that does not include household pets is made futile. The common house fly is an abomination because it is a pernicious germ carrier infesting earth closets and other filth and bearing the germs of diarrhea and typhoid to our food. For this reason houses should be screened and earth closets treated weekly with quick lime or corrosive sublimate solution. The fly breeds in stable manure and rubbish from the garden and kitchen. The frequent removal of the latter will assist in abating the fly nuisance and the sanitation of earth closets and the prohibition of infecting the soil with excreta from the person would prevent typhoid and diarrhea. The mosquito is a germ carrier and breeds in stagnant water. Puddles of water should be drained or treated with crude petroleum. For the same reason tin cans thrown out should be punctured to prevent water collecting in them. No person should drink water from surface ponds or sluggish streams or sleep or be upon the ground. The climate of Francitas is peculiarly favorable for all affections of a bronchial or catarrhal nature and this is bound to attract invalids from the harsh climate of the north both east and west. Among these will be tubercular victims for many of the so called cases of catarrh are plan tuberculosis which is contagious. Strangers from various places will be constantly dropping off the trains as the town grows and some of these may bring other diseases besides tuberculosis which must be guarded against. As a general precaution that person who lives in a dry well ventilated screened dwelling, who disposes of kitchen slops, decayed fruit, vegetables and other garbage and excreta in a sanitary manner and keeps vermin and pets out of the house may expect to avoid preventable sickness. J. H. Mackay
Francitas Bee, February 23, 1911 |
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Dr. Mackay, who with his wife, is camping on the Hugh Mullen 80 acre tract southeast of town has discovered that the clay there makes fine pottery. The doctor fashioned a large bowl and burnt it, the bowl coming out of the fire without a crack or a check. C. C. Tabor has also been experimenting and he is satisfied the soil is good for making brick. Mr. Tabor expects to make some brick this summer and use them for the construction of a house for his daughter. The demonstrations made by Dr. Mackay and Mr. Tabor means that someone at no distant day will start a brick yard here, which will give employment to many persons. Francitas now needs brick houses and at no distant day they will come. The bank building is to be of brick and after that is constructed there is no doubt other bricks will follow in short order.
Francitas Bee, March 23, 1911 |
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Francitas Bee, March 30, 1911 |
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Francitas Bee, April 13, 1911 |
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Francitas
Herald, July 27, 1911 |
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Are you seeking health? Die Medicine is nicht allein in die Laboratorium gemacht werden wile wir mit Menschen zu thum haben.--Prof. R. Virchow, M. D. The pursuit of health is the constant and paramount concern of upwards of a million persons in the United States today. Hectic worn and weary pilgrims beset the beaten and begrimed pathways about our climatic resorts and mineral springs allured by the gregariousness of the miserable until the environment of these places, like the road to Mecca, is plague-stricken by the pollution of collective humanity. Every sanitarium, hospital and asylum in the country is crowded with health seekers. The kingdom of health is not there. Far from the defilement of the multitude and the pestilence that stalks among the mentally and bodily ill when crowded together there still remain quiet nooks of nature uninfected by the lunger or the virus of social plague--temples of Hygeia where nature in all its glorious perfection exercises her potential sway to solace brooding minds, sooth irritable nerves and restore disordered functions. Such a place have I found along Matagorda bay on the Gulf of Mexico. Here nature speaks to the sojourner only of rest, peace and health. There are no medicated waters there, no medicinal nor mechanical methods of healing, but just nature in perfect tune to " 'Rase out this written troubles of the brain and cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart." The climate is even and delightful throughout the year, the soft, moist, refreshing breeze, redolent with the breath of the ocean and fragrant with the odors of native flowers and spices from the tropics, blows gently day after day from the south, filtering through the giant live oaks and festoons of vines, "Bearded with moss and in garments green," sweet, cool and invigorating. The landscape is English. Great, ancient oaks and clinging vines and broad prairies, the exquisite coloration, the perfect harmony of all nature reminds one of England. The climate is Italian, with all the luxury of fruit and flowers of the Mediterranean. The delightful melody of the birds, the beauty of the butterflies and the wild creatures of the wood, the hypnotic charm of nature has a beauty all their own. Sheltered, serene, calm and mild, one can live almost out of doors. The days and nights are more equally divided than in more northern latitudes; the sunlight shimmers down through the gauzy atmosphere in soporific lanquor and the ineffable beauty and sweetness of the nights rival the days in contending for your appreciation and companionship. You ask if all this is not enervating and productive of lassitude. Not at all. It gives only rest, relaxation and releases the tension on nerves and muscles accustomed to an strenuous life and rigorous climate. At Francitas, Texas, on the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico railroad, you are on the American Riviera. The land is high and drained by two rivers with steep, high banks, and the tide comes up almost to the town. These are abundant opportunities for hunting, boating, fishing and recreation, thus giving diversified exercise to mind and body. The vast variety of fruits and vegetables produced and the game, fish and oysters always at hand lend a pleasing and seductive variation to the diet of the invalid. The water is soft and sweet from flowing wells. Specifically, the therapeutics of the climate can only in degree benefit pathological conditions. What can promise more? In this degree, however, and for those on the borderland of certain diseases the climate does work marvelous results. The conditions are ideal for those suffering from insomnia, neurasthenia, and all affections incidental to overworked, abused, poisoned, irritable and inflamed nerves. Allied to these are those conditions characterized by melancholy and suicidal impulses and threatened insanity, which frequently are the offspring of care, sleeplessness and worry and imperfect nutrition and elimination. In the category of diseased or disordered functions depending upon improper modes of living and working which are properly also due to errors of nutrition may be classed certain conditions of the kidneys, arteries and obesity. The climate, diet and out-door recreation benefit all these by inducing sleep and a balanced assimilation and elimination so that emaciated people gain weight and fleshy ones lose it. Catarrh of the nose and throat and bronchitis, hardness of hearing, due to high, cold or hot winds and storms, inflammation of the eyes and rheumatism which all may be classified as climatic diseases, are greatly benefitted through the absence of sudden changes of temperature and the irritation that caused these conditions to develop. The climatological association of America gives to this region the preference for bronchial affections and catarrh. The tubercular can hope for but little benefit here as the moist air is not favorable to the cure of tuberculosis. There are occupational diseased that, if not too far advanced, should be cured here. Public speakers and singers who are subject to hoarseness and temporary loss of voice, should derive great benefit from a sojourn here. Also there are conditions of the vascular system which I have in mind that ought to be improved in this environment. The improved nutrition and elimination, the altitude of the sea shore and the relaxation of the system should improve the function of the heart and arteries. In Bright's disease, in apoplectic individuals, in irritable conditions of the bladder and for those suffering from inflammation of the prostate gland, for feeble and old people whose systems and vitality are depleted and to whom a rigorous climate is a menace the climatic conditions are ideal. Bearing in mind that no one can regain health by pursuing it as an occupation of as they would negotiate a business transaction, that the essence of that subtle thing called health is not negotiable or a compulsory commodity; that medicine does not create it but simply antagonizes the forces that destroy it; that when once undermined nature alone can repair it, and you will appreciate the advantages and limitations of the benefits to be derived from a sojourn at Francitas, Texas. J. H. Mackay, M. D., Member American Medical Association
Francitas Bee, August 31, 1911 |
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Francitas, Texas, October 17, 1911 Editor Bee:--I wish to give your readers my practical experience with my acre of garden in town. I had it broken in December, 1910, the first furrow that had been turned since the dawn of creation. The sod was tough and the ground permeated with fibrous roots. There were also some holly and scrub live oak brush on it and it took brute force to subdue it and gather up the roots and burn them. I had it disked several times. The rains and prairie fire and wild game and domestic cattle that had visited it in centuries made the soil very compact, and after breaking it the first rain packed it and the sun baked it and it seemed hopeless to try to grow anything on it. The soil lacked porosity--it would not take up air or water and the water either ran off or stood in pools in the low places. I had it plowed again in June, but during the winter I put in about fifty trees, figs, oranges, grapes and ornamental trees by thoroughly spading and working the ground in the immediate locality where the trees were planted. This fall I again plowed, disked and harrowed the land between the trees for garden, and what a changed soil I now have to deal with! It is loose, aerated, loamed and several shades darker. I can run a garden tool across it by hand with the utmost ease and I sink to my ankles walking across it. It does not crust after rain but on the contrary seems more porous and it takes up all the rain and does not get gummy on the surface. My onion seed came up in five days and other vegetables are flourishing. At last I have made the wilderness submit and henceforth it will be a pleasure rather than toil to till it. The trees also show that a change has taken place. All those grass and fibrous roots have decomposed and giving up plant food and oxygen from the soil. No, that acre is not for sale. J. H. Mackay
Francitas Bee, October 19, 1911 |
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Fortunate Francitas--Dr. J. H. Mackay has been sending patients to this Haven of Rest until now he is surrounded by a bunch of healthy friends whose pay calls are so seldom the doctor is raising chickens and a garden in order to keep busy. It is good for the town to have for its city physician, one of such experience as Dr. Mackay.
Francitas Bee,
November 23, 1911 |
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Francitas Bee, December 14, 1911 |
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Petroleum Magazine,
May, 1921 |
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Dr. Mackay was born in Nova Scotia, received his preliminary education in the Lake Forrest University of Chicago, and graduated in medicine from the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, in 1884. He began the practice of medicine in Nebraska, at one time serving as City Health Officer of Norfolk, Nebraska. He had practiced in Texas for the past twelve years. Texas State
Journal of Medicine, Volume 17, May, 1922, p. 605 |
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R. H. Von Kissel disposed of the Francitas Land and Improvement Co. to Mrs. Alice Mackay.
Palacios Beacon, April 12, 1934 |
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Palacios Beacon, May 24, 1934 |
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Palacios Beacon, November 1, 1934 |
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Palacios Beacon, August 15, 1935 |
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Palacios Beacon, August 13, 1936 |
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The Angel of Death passed thru our midst late on the afternoon of February 23, laying his icy fingers on the brow of our friend and neighbor, Mrs. Alice MacKay. She slipped away quietly while talking to a business visitor and apparently without undue pain. This is how she would have wished to go. She had been ailing for many months and was prepared to “step over the line” and rest. She passed on to the never-never land as she had lived, quietly and uncomplainingly. She was ever ready to give to any good cause, and would donate generously when anyone called for funds, especially if she knew children would be benefitted. Having no children of her own, during the years she spent with us (42 of them), she made many young people happy on Christmas, graduation days and at other times by making it possible for them to receive something they would value much. She asked no favors in return, but we have seen her eyes glow from a simple “thank you” or a compliment. We shall miss the light in her window. [Alice (March 17, 1878 – February 28, 1952) was the daughter of John A. & Margaret Shevlin Mullin and she was cremated.]
Edna Herald,
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