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John King Stack

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John King Stack

Birth
Duagh, County Kerry, Ireland
Death
1 Sep 1920 (aged 73)
Burial
Escanaba, Delta County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
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Son of Rickard Walsh and Mary(King)Stack from Ireland.
Husband of Jane Ann(Brown)They married on October 6, 1873 in Negaunee, Michigan. They had nine children.

Henry Stack 1883
Hellen Stack 1895
John K Stack 1904
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According to John, he was accidently left behind when his parents sailed to the U.S. His mother, Mary, died on the voyage. When he was about 8 he was sent to live with his father, Rickard, who had remarried, and had two new daughters, Mary and Margaret. John left shortly to become a cabin boy on the ship his uncle, Captain Thomas Stack, sailed between St. Louis and Memphis, according to John Patterson, husband of a Stack descendent. He stayed one winter with an unrelated King family in Green Bay where he became friends with the King boys and the Atkinson family. Information from the Stack Family Reunion, Jeans Stack Jones 1992, private family booklet. Her information was provided by her grandmother, Anne Brown Stack, wife of John King Stack. Anne traveled to Ireland with her son and daughter-in-law to research their family origins.

John is both the nephew of Sarah Stack and married Sarah's daughter-in-law's sister, Jane Anne Browne, so he was Thomas Stack McKenna’s first cousin and brother-in-law!

John eventually went into the business of delivering liquor and tobacco to the lumber camps. From there his business interests grew exponentially.

His father died in 1871 in Delaware, Ohio. He went back to bury him and returned with his half-sisters, whom he educated

Margaret married a Thomas J. Dundon. They had Ned (the attorney who handled the Parnell McKenna's and Anne McKenna Rowe's estates, and the sale of Fumee Creek to the state, etc.) and Margaret (who was a librarian and much loved by the McKennas -- per Jean Stack Jones and Mary Stridde Peterson) as well as four other children. Ned had a daughter, Margaret Dundon Donohue, and two sons, Mark of Seattle and Robert Dundon, S.J., a professor in Uganda. Mary married J. M. Rooney, and they had six children. They may have lived in Superior, Wis. at the time of John's death in 1920.

According to the Delta County Historical Society in Escanaba, at the time of John's death he was one of the leading financiers of the area. He served as Escanaba's mayor for three consecutive terms and paid the most taxes of anyone in Escanaba. He had extensive real estate interests in Delta County; and was:
President of the Escanaba National Bank
President of the Escanaba Paper Company
President of the Stack Lumber Companu
Director of the Helena Land and Lumber Company
Director of the Delta Title and Loan Company
With business associate, P.L. Utley, he helped develop water power of the Escanaba River which led to one of Escanaba's leading industries, the paper industry. P.L. Utley died two days before he did.
Contributor: Margaret McCarthy (48783689) • [email protected]
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Son of Rickard Walsh and Mary(King)Stack from Ireland.
Husband of Jane Ann(Brown)They married on October 6, 1873 in Negaunee, Michigan. They had nine children.

Henry Stack 1883
Hellen Stack 1895
John K Stack 1904
........................
According to John, he was accidently left behind when his parents sailed to the U.S. His mother, Mary, died on the voyage. When he was about 8 he was sent to live with his father, Rickard, who had remarried, and had two new daughters, Mary and Margaret. John left shortly to become a cabin boy on the ship his uncle, Captain Thomas Stack, sailed between St. Louis and Memphis, according to John Patterson, husband of a Stack descendent. He stayed one winter with an unrelated King family in Green Bay where he became friends with the King boys and the Atkinson family. Information from the Stack Family Reunion, Jeans Stack Jones 1992, private family booklet. Her information was provided by her grandmother, Anne Brown Stack, wife of John King Stack. Anne traveled to Ireland with her son and daughter-in-law to research their family origins.

John is both the nephew of Sarah Stack and married Sarah's daughter-in-law's sister, Jane Anne Browne, so he was Thomas Stack McKenna’s first cousin and brother-in-law!

John eventually went into the business of delivering liquor and tobacco to the lumber camps. From there his business interests grew exponentially.

His father died in 1871 in Delaware, Ohio. He went back to bury him and returned with his half-sisters, whom he educated

Margaret married a Thomas J. Dundon. They had Ned (the attorney who handled the Parnell McKenna's and Anne McKenna Rowe's estates, and the sale of Fumee Creek to the state, etc.) and Margaret (who was a librarian and much loved by the McKennas -- per Jean Stack Jones and Mary Stridde Peterson) as well as four other children. Ned had a daughter, Margaret Dundon Donohue, and two sons, Mark of Seattle and Robert Dundon, S.J., a professor in Uganda. Mary married J. M. Rooney, and they had six children. They may have lived in Superior, Wis. at the time of John's death in 1920.

According to the Delta County Historical Society in Escanaba, at the time of John's death he was one of the leading financiers of the area. He served as Escanaba's mayor for three consecutive terms and paid the most taxes of anyone in Escanaba. He had extensive real estate interests in Delta County; and was:
President of the Escanaba National Bank
President of the Escanaba Paper Company
President of the Stack Lumber Companu
Director of the Helena Land and Lumber Company
Director of the Delta Title and Loan Company
With business associate, P.L. Utley, he helped develop water power of the Escanaba River which led to one of Escanaba's leading industries, the paper industry. P.L. Utley died two days before he did.
Contributor: Margaret McCarthy (48783689) • [email protected]
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