Ellin MacKay Berlin was an American heiress to the Comstock silver fortune, a popular novelist and wife of the songwriter Irving Berlin. - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
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| Girl Scouts of the USA | |||
| The Saturday Evening Post | 1933 |
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| 1903/03/22 | Katherine Duer MacKay gives birth to Ellin Mackay at the famaly's $6 million estate in Roslyn, Long Island (razed, Harbor Hill). | Born | Mackay Estate Gate Lodge | Town of Oyster Bay, NY | |||
| 1921/00/00 | Ellin Mackay makes her debut in society at the age of eighteen. | Life | |||||
| 1922/00/00 | Educated in private schools, including a special courses at Barnard College, Miss Mackay is a debutante during the season of 1922-23, when her father gave her a ball at the Ritz-Carlton (razed). | Life | Barnard College | ||||
| 1924/00/00 | As Ellin and the Prince of Wales dance, she tells him that the song the orchestra is playing was written by her friend. Ellin then asks the Prince to cover for her while she makes a telephone call. | Hostest | Mackay Estate Gate Lodge | Town of Oyster Bay, NY | |||
| 1925/12/25 | Ellin Mackay's ''The Declining Function'' is published in The New Yorker. MacKay writes, as a liberated young woman, "Modern girls are conscious of their identity and they marry whom they choose, satisfied to satisfy themselves.'' | Author | |||||
| 1926/01/04 | Ms Ellin Mackay walks out of 3 East 75th with only the clothes she is wearing and, taking her first subway ride, meets Irving Berlin. | Bride | Duncan-Mackay Mansion | New York City | Marriage of Ellen Mackay and Irving Berlin | ||
| 1926/01/04 | Ellin Mackay, a Catholic, marries Irvine Berlin, a Jew, in a rushed ceremony at New York City's Municipal Building. The question of religion in connection with the marriage, says Irvine, would be considered later, if at all. | Bride | Municipal Building | New York City | Marriage of Ellen Mackay and Irving Berlin | ||
| 1928/12/25 | The Berlin's three-week-old son, Irving Berlin Jr, dies on Christmas day. Every year, Irving and Ellin spend Christmas Day visiting the grave of thier son. | Mother | Woodlawn Cemetery | New York City | |||
| 1933/00/00 | Ellin MacKay begins contributing short stories to The Saturday Evening Post, The Ladies' Home Journal and other popular magazines. | Author | |||||
| 1935/00/00 | Mrs Berlin was re-baptized in the Catholic faith in the 1930's. Throughout her life she will worship at St Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. | Faith | St Patrick's Cathedral | New York City | |||
| 1944/00/00 | MacKay's first novel, ''Land I Have Chosen,'' is published. Depicting the evils of Nazi Germany, it was sold to the movies for $150,000, then a record. | Author | |||||
| 1948/00/00 | Ellin MacKay's novel, "Lace Curtain" is published. | Author | |||||
| 1957/00/00 | Ellin MacKay's "Silver Platter", a semi-fictional account of her Nevada pioneer ancestors, is published. | Author | |||||
| 1970/00/00 | Mrs Berlin, last of her four novels, ''The Best of Families,'' is published in 1970. | Author | |||||
| 1988/07/29 | Ellin Berlin, the novelist wife of songwriter Irving Berlin, dies at Doctors Hospital (razed). She had been taken from her town house at 17 Beekman Place after the last of a series of strokes. | Died | Mackay Berlin Townhouse | New York City | |||
| 1988/08/02 | Funeral mass for Ellin Mackay Berlin is celebrated at St Patrick's Cathedral. | In Memoriam | St Patrick's Cathedral | New York City | |||
| 1988/08/02 | Ellin Mackay Berlin is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. | In Memoriam | Woodlawn Cemetery | New York City |
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