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 [decorative delimiter] Class of 1864

Vol. III
p27
2042

(Born N. Y.)

Isaac W. Maclay

(Ap'd N. Y.)

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Isaac Walker Maclay: Born 1841, New York, N. Y.

Military History. — Cadet at the Military Academy, July 1, 1860, to June 13, 1864, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to

Second Lieut., 1st Artillery, June 13, 1864.

 p28  Served during the Rebellion of the Seceding States, 1864‑66: as Instructor of Artillery to 69th New York Volunteers at Ft. Wadsworth, N. Y., July 18 to Sep. 17, 1864.

(Transferred to Ordnance Corps, Sep. 17, 1864.)

Served: as Asst. Ordnance Officer at Washington Arsenal, D. C., Oct. 3, 1864, to Aug. 28, 1866, — at Watertown Arsenal, Mas., Sep. 1‑25, 1866, — and at Springfield Armory, Mas., Sep. 20, 1865, to Oct. 20, 1868; as

(First Lieut., Ordnance, Nov. 13, 1868)

Chief Ordnance Officer, Department of the Platte, Nov. 30, 1868, to Oct. 1, 1869 (leave of absence, June‑July, 1868); as Asst. Ordnance Officer at Watervliet Arsenal, N. Y., to Oct. 16, 1873, — and at Rock Island Arsenal, Ill., to Nov. 15, 1873; and as Member of Board to appraise the value of Rome, Fayetteville, and Champlain Arsenals, Apr. 29 to May 15, 1873.

Resigned, Nov. 15, 1873.

Civil History. — Civil Engineer and City Surveyor, New York, since 1873.

Vol. IV
p147
[Supplement, Vol. IV: 1890‑1900]

Civil History. — Unknown.

Vol. V
p116
[Supplement, Vol. V: 1900‑1910]

Civil History. — Assistant Engineer Topographical Bureau, Department of Public Parks, N. Y., Oct. 27, 1873. — Civil Engineer and City Surveyor of New York City, 1876. — Since then engaged in real estate business, being director in a number of real estate companies. — Member of American Civic Society; Municipal Art Society; American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society; Westchester County Historical Society; New York Real Estate Exchange; Yonkers Library and Historical Society; New York Zoological Society; Society for the Preservation of the Adirondacks; American Forestry Association; American Museum of Natural History; Sons of the Revolution and Veteran Corps of Artillery; Society of the War of 1812; National Arbitration and Peace Society; New York Historical Society; Westchester Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; American Baptist Historical Society;​a Trustee University of Chicago, 1900‑1905; Trustee of Virginia Union University; Member Board of Managers of American Home Mission Society; National Temperance Society and Publishing House, on the Committee on  p117 Temperance of the General Convention of Baptists of North America; Member of the Rapid Transit Commission for the City of Yonkers, 1905.

Died Dec. 29, 1908, at Yonkers, N. Y.: Aged 68.

See Annual Association of Graduates, U. S. M. A., 1909, for an obituary notice, with a portrait.​b

Buried, Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY.

Isaac Maclay also appears in a letter of his classmate Edward Willoughby Anderson's, June 24, 1860: a vignette of their very first days as plebes at West Point.


Thayer's Notes:

a His historical interests extended to the writing of at least three works, none of which reached a wide audience, however: a Prize Essay On The Relations Of The Different Professions And Vocations To Longevity (Francis Hart & Co., New York, 1873); Henry Sater, 1690‑1754. Sater genealogy with addenda and index (privately printed, New York, 1897); and his most ambitious, The Life of Rev. Archibald Maclay, D.D. (Polydore Barnes Co. Press, New York, 1902: an edition limited to 500 copies), the subject of which was his grandfather, a prominent Baptist minister in New York.

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b Isaac Maclay was present at Ford's Theater when President Lincoln was shot, and helped transport the President to the room in which he died. Some of the details are given in the linked obituary.


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