CUYAHOGA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: MACKEY, GUY T. (published 1928)
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WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume 5, page 229-230

        GUY T. MACKEY. The career of Guy T. Mackey adds another to the many
illustrations which Monongalia County has furnished of the results
attainable by intelligence, tact and perseverance when applied to the
building up of an extensive business under the favor which has, for many
years, attended all her enterprises. As junior member of the firm of Smith
& Mackey, grocers, for the past eighteen years Mr. Mackey has influenced to
large extent the development of a stable industry, and one which would have
yielded pronounced success only to those who had the sagacity to perceive
and the boldness to push to the best results so large an opportunity.
        Mr. Mackey was born August 18, 1884, at Cameron, West Virginia, and
is a son of B.A. and Jennie (Mess) Mackey. His father, who was born in
Greene County, Pennsylvania, was reared on a farm and received a rural
school education, but when a young man was attracted to railroading, and
for twenty-two years was identified with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in
various capacities. When he left that vocation he turned his attention
again to the occupation of his boyhood, and for some years was the operator
of a farm in Monongalia County. He is now retired from active pursuits and
makes his home with his son at Morgantown, where he is held in high esteem
and respect. His worthy and faithful wife, who was born at Cameron, West
Virginia, died November 2, 1923.
        Guy T. Mackey acquired his educational training in the public
schools of Mannington, Marion County, and as a young man came to
Morgantown, where he applied himself to learning the trade of glass blower.
This calling he mastered and worked at as a journeyman at various
establishments for about ten years, in the meanwhile carefully saving his
earnings and keeping a sharp lookout for a profitable field of investment.
Having become acquainted with Jefferson  T. Smith, a review of whose career
appears elsewhere in this work, and who was a practical grocer of some
years experience, a partnership was formed between the two in 1910, and
this has continued with mutual profit and congeniality to the preset, their
modern establishment being located at 437 Beechurst Street. The business
has been built up to large proportions through legitimate channels. Mr.
Mackey, like his partner, is a stickler for honesty. He never advertises
anything that he has not on hand, and he never resorts to the expedient of
questionable transactions. he wins out on merit, good nature, courtesy and
patience with women, who are his chief customers, and belief in himself and
his ability to succeed. He is an agreeable and obliging man, and his
standing in the community rests upon the sure foundation of confidence and
respect. Mr. Mackey is interested in fraternalism and is a thrity-second
degree mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine, belonging also to the B. P.
O. Elks for many years and the Junior Order United American mechanics. He
likewise holds membership in the Morgantown County Club and the local
Kiwanis Club, and in the latter cooperates with other progressive and
enlightened citizens of modern tendencies in the promulgation of movements
for the public welfare. In politics Mr. Mackey is a Republican, and while
he has not sought public office for himself he has been active in his
support of party and friends. In his youth he joined the Methodist
Episcopal Church, to which he still belongs, and is now vice president of
the Business men's Bible Class, the largest class of its kind in the State
of West Virginia, which has approximately 500 members and is taught by
Doctor Armstrong.
        On July 22, 1914, Mr. Mackey was united in marriage with Miss Emma
Deary, a daughter of D.M. and Mary (Whitman) Deary, of Cleveland, Ohio,
where Mr. Deary follows the vocation of a stationary engineer. Mrs. Deary
passed away in 1920 at the Cleveland home. Mrs. Mackey is also active in
the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church and has many friends in social
circles of Morgantown. To Mr. And Mrs. Mackey there have been born two
children: Ila Florrie, who was born may 14, 1919; and Bruce Melvin, born
November 1, 1917. The pleasant family home is located at 408 McLane Ave.


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