Sylvester Mackey, c.1875
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Prints
- Description
- Black and white photograph from The Mackey Family History by George DeKay (1985) of Sylvester Mackey. The portrait photograph was taken in a studio.
The original source/photographer of this image is unknown. - Notes
- Sylvester Mackey was born in on the family homestead on lot 32, concession 2, Whitby Township on 9 January 1821. The son of Mathias and Nancy (Moon) Mackey, Sylvester inherited the family farm and also acquired 100 acres of lot 33. He was the deputy reeve of Pickering Township in 1877 and married to Margaret Broderick.
Sylvester died at the Mackey homestead on 2 April 1902 and is buried at Union Cemetery in Oshawa. - Date of Original
- c.1875
- Dimensions
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Width: 8 in
Height: 10 in
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Mackey
- Collection
- Whitby Online Historic Photographs Collection
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.8797699937504 Longitude: -78.942053883667
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- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Recommended Citation
- Sylvester Mackey, c.1875, unknown photographer, Whitby Archives, 31-009-561.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from print.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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