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Served
as Vice President of Heinze Company
John MacGinnis, 69, former Butte mayor and later a mining magnate
and banker, died last night at a hospital in Los Angeles, following an
illness of several weeks. He left Butte with his family many years ago
to make his home on the coast.
News of his passing
was received by his sister, Mrs. W. L. Creden of 309 West Broadway.
Mr. MacGinnis was a
native of Homer, Iowa, and was educated in Chicago. He came to Butte
when a young man and became associated with the late F. Augustus Heinze,
an outstanding figure in the copper industry at the turn of the century
who operated many properties in the Butte district. Mr. MacGinnis served
as vice president of the Heinze company. He was also one of the
directors and for several years served as president of the old Silver
Bow National Bank which was taken over by the Metals Bank and Trust
company in June of 1922. He was mayor here in 1905 and 1906.
He operated copper
and coal properties in Montana, Mexico and British Columbia. He also
served as president of the Interstate Utilities Company of Spokane,
Wash.; Missouri Oxide and Chemical Company and the Gibraltar Gold Mines
Company of Nevada. He was active in Democratic affairs, serving one term
as national Democratic
His home in recent
years had been at 2029 Pinehurst Road, Los Angeles. The surviving relatives include his widow and two children, John S. MacGinnis and Mercedes MacGinnis of Los Angeles, and his sister, of Butte. Funeral arrangements had not been learned here today. Butte, Montana Friday, May 29, 1936 Pages 1 & 2
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Santa Barbara, Calif., May 29,__(AP)—Funeral services were arranged
today for John MacGinnis, vice president of United Copper and central
figure in Montana’s “copper war” at the turn of the century.
Butte, Mont., May
29, __(AP)__John MacGinnis, who died in Santa Barbara, was a former
mayor of Butte, one-time president of the Silver Bow Bank here and
served in the Montana legislature.
As an employee of Marcus Daly
and later of F. A. Heinze, he was a central figure in many of the
colorful episodes of the “copper barons’ wars” in the nineties.
He was born at Homer, Iowa in
1867 and educated in Chicago, where he became secretary to the head of a
hardware manufacturing firm. He met Daly on a western trip and was hired
by the copper king to become an executive of the Anaconda company.
Later, MacGinnis was employed by Heinze, made a vice president of the
Heinze company and remained with him until 1907.
Besides his widow, a
son, John, and a daughter, Mercedes, in California, he is survived by a
sister, Mrs. W. L. Creden, here.
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