generously, especially to the charities of the Roman Catholic Church, and endowed the Catholic orphan asylum in Virginia City, Nevada. In June 1908 the Mackay School of Mines building was presented to the University of Nevada, as a memorial to him, by his widow and his son, Clarence H. Mackay. A statue of John Mackay by Gutzon Borglum stands in front of the Mackay Mines building on the university campus in Reno, Nevada. Death Mackay died of heart failure on July 20, 1902, in London. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn; his mausoleum was described in 2018, by Scribner Associate Editor Sarah Goldberg, as "by far the most impressive mausoleum in the cemetery, atop a shady hill". The mausoleum was originally created for Mackay's oldest son, John, Jr., who died in a horse riding accident in 1895. Mackay never fully overcame his grief and was entombed with his son seven years later. Honours The town of Mackay, Idaho was named in his honour as he owned the local copper mines. The nearby Mackay Peak in the White Knob Mountains is also named after him. Mackay appears several times as a character in the novel Comstock Lode by Louis L'Amour. In the Steven Spielberg film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade a ship seen in Venice, Italy in 1938 is named the John W. Mackay. References Bibliography Notes External links The Mackay Mansion in Virginia City at Western Mining History www.atlantic-cable.com/ www.cial.org.uk/ mackayhistory.com/ A Guide to the Consolidated Virginia Mining Company records, NC99. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno. 1831 births 1902 deaths American prospectors Businesspeople from California Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) ITT Inc. people Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery Businesspeople from New York City People from Virginia City, Nevada American mining businesspeople People from Five Points, Manhattan 19th-century American businesspeople