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Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
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Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_022
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Description
An account of the resource
Left to Right: Side Mack, Side Jr. (also known as Mitchell, on lap), Edward Mack, Tabeeta Ikall Mack, Margaret Mack (in front of mother), Madeline Mack.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920s
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
1920s
Families
portrait
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The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data
Books
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack English Family Bible
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1927
Language
A language of the resource
English
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/jpg
Subject
The topic of the resource
Bibles
Description
An account of the resource
Photographs of the Mack English family Bible, dating from 1927. In addition to detail photographs of the Bible, this set contains images of ephemera found within the Bible at the time of Mitchell Mack's interview.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Unknown
1920's
Bibles
Family Bible
Mack
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_013
Title
A name given to the resource
Diamond Anniversary Celebration
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Family Business
Description
An account of the resource
A street photograph of the 75th anniversary celebration of John Mack & Son, which was celebrated in 1987.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1987
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Relation
A related resource
<a href="http://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/11447" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">75th Anniversary Program</a>
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/pdf
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
1980s
Business
Events
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_003
Title
A name given to the resource
John Mack & Son 75th Anniversary Celebration Program
Subject
The topic of the resource
Family business
Lebanese--United States
Description
An account of the resource
A program printed in honor of the Diamond Anniversary celebration of John Mack & Son Department store in Mooresville, North Carolina. The program contains photographs from the store's 75 continuous years of operation and includes an early history of the Mack family.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
John Mack & Son
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1987 December 20
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Text/pdf
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
1980s
Business
Events
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
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Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
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kc0010_002
Title
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Historic Mooresville 2008 Calendar
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Family business
Lebanese--United States
Description
An account of the resource
The 2008 Historic Mooresville Calendar, which featured archival photographs from Mooresville's history. The month of November was sponsored by John Mack & Son Department Store and includes photographs of the family and the business.
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Mooresville Museum
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Mitchell Mack
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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2007
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English
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Text
2000s
Business
Calendars,
North Carolina
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Mack Family
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An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
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Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
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44 minutes 57 seconds
Player
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The Mack Family History and a Pictorial Family Tree
Description
An account of the resource
This video was donated by the Mack family. It was first created in 2007 and updated in 2009. It contains a history and pictorial family tree of the Mack family, and was created for use at family reunions and celebrations.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2009
Source
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Mitchell Mack
Rights
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Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Subject
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Family trees
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Unknown
Publisher
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Type
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Image
2000's
Family Trees
Mack
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/original/5072ea79786ee18e286d492eb10cb372.pdf
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Interview no. 001q
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Project
The Lebanese in North Carolina Project
Date
Interviewee
Mack, Mitchell
Occupation
DOB
1921
Ethnicity
Lebanese
Interviewer
Khater, Akram.
Abstract
Transcript
Yes
Transcript
Access
Online.
Number of
Pages
17
Subject
Topical
North Carolina—Lebanese
Subject Name
Listening Copy
Audio Access
Listening Copy File
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Medium of Originial
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Duration
Approx. 64 min.
Notes
Family history
Yes
Field Notes
Tape Log
Supplementary
Material
Citation
Interview with Mitchell Mack by Akram Khater, October 24, 2010, the
Lebanese in North Carolina Project
Collection in
Repository
Repository
Host
AK:
State your name and where you were born.
MM: My name is Mitchell Mack and I was born in Morrisville, North Carolina.
AK:
Mr. Mack, Can you start with the story of your grandfather coming to Morrisville.
MM: My grandfather was in correspondence with a friend in Marion, South Carolina and
he says John you know you need to be in this country. This is the place. This is where
all is happening. So you know being the gutsy person he was he leaves his wife and
family of five children. Not able to speak word of English, he comes to America.
Comes through Ellis Island. And how he made it, I don’t know. But anyway, the clerk
asks him his name, and so forth to register him. He says my name is Hanna Makhoul
Fakhoury Well they knew Hanna was John, got to Makhoul put down M-A-C-K, and
Fakhoury never got in the ball game at all. So we got named by a clerk at Ellis Island.
And so that name has hung with us. Of course, I never ever like the name Mack. It’s
certainly not Lebanese. But I have had it so long that I got accustom to it. But anyway
then , he goes Pennsylvania Station to catch the train and they send him to Marion,
North Carolina instead of Marion, South Carolina. Well, he gets to Marion and he’s
there at the train station all day long waiting for his friend to come pick him up. That
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night, the station agent felt sorry for him. Took him home with him, bed him that
night, gave him breakfast that next morning and put him on a train to Charlotte, North
Carolina to F. A. Joseph, a Lebanese person that he knew. Well, my grandfather gets
to Charlotte and he likes it very much. I never even found out whether if he went
Marion, South Carolina or not. But anyway, he starts selling his wares. Goes by the
wholesalers there and buys merchandise and starts walking on foot going door to door
through the country. He walked for miles, and miles, and miles everyday. At
nighttime come, he would barter for his room and board. He got to where these trips
he made frequently he got to where he had favorites where he’d stop. But he’d walk
as far as Morrisville. Charlotte to Morrisville, and on to Cooleemee, Salisbury, China
Grove, Kannapolis, all these towns around here. And then later when he got enough
money, he bought him a horse. You know he carried about two hundred pounds of
merchandise and four valences, the telescope valences that fits on top and the bottom,
hangs one from each shoulder and one in each hand. He just enjoys this. And made
his way. Now, how he made his way through the country, I guess he used sign
language a lot. But anyway, he managed to make his way. And then, eventually, he
got to where he started thinking about his family back home.
AK:
Which year was this?
MM: 1905. He came over in 1903. This was in 1905, he decides to go back and get his
family. So he goes back there a couple of years and while he’s there another child is
born. The sixth child is born. The fourth daughter Bahia. He just can wait to get back
to the states, so he talks to his wife and so forth. And says, how about let go on now.
So she convinced him that she would not enjoy going to a strange place, for him to go
ahead, and later on, they’d join him. So when he leaves he brings the oldest daughter,
Nora, and the second son, Charles back with him. So after he comes back, only a
matter of a few weeks, she writes and tells him she getting tired of a split family. Just
go ahead and send them their passes and they’d come on. Well this didn’t suit my
father, Sahid , the oldest son, so he wanted to come on himself. First, his mother, my
grandmother, is fatally injured. She falls from the roof, she’s drying wheat on the roof
of the house and she falls and breaks her back and she…she passes and wasn’t able to
come. So Charlie, John sent Charlie back to bring the girls over and my father left
with Moes, Norman, and Whitey Francis, I believe. They came together. They met in
Cairo, got a ship to France, and a train across France and to ------. They came across
to Ellis Island. When they get to Charlotte, they are looking for their daddy. And F.
A. Joseph happens to be around to the post office, and hears them talking and
recognizes the language. He asks them who they were, and so forth. And they told
they were looking for their daddy Sahid Mack. He says well he was in Morrisville but
he’s back in Charlotte. You want me to take you around to see him. So they take him
around and knock on my grandfather’s door and says I got your son here. He’s been
known to be drinking, so my grandfather says well you go on to your family. But
when he opens the door and sees Sahid there were tears of joy then. But anyway, they
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set up actually, Nora them started, they opened a store in Charlotte. Which they had a
fire a few years after that disrupted everything.
[Interruption]
MM: Then my grandfather continued his house-to-house salesmanship and so forth. Nora
would mind the store and Charles would take turns with it. Then they decided they
wanted to open a store in Morrisville. They talked to Ed Eaton and Zed ---- about
putting up a building for them at 18 North Main Street in between two buildings. If
they get it ready by a certain time by the first of December, that they would pay them
more money. Well anyway they hung the front door on the building on December the
24th so they opened on Christmas Eve 1912. [laughter] It was quite a day. And they
lived upstairs in the building.
AK:
So they being your grandfather [insert name] or John, Nora, Bahia and Charles.
MM: Yeah. Well, no, Bahia wasn’t here yet and Charles was still in Lebanon.
AK:
So your father though was here.
MM: Yeah.
AK:
Ok, so Sahid and Nora and your grandfather lived together above the store. So you
said the your grandfather still peddled his wares.
MM: Yeah, he kept on. He travelled for years afterward.
AK:
He did. What kind of stuff would he sell normally? And who was he selling to?
MM: Well, he had ladies lingerie. He had piece goods. He had men’s shirts, pants… a lot of
linens, table clothes and that kind of thing. Napkins. Just all kinds of wares. Some of
that stuff did not require sizes. He carried a little bit of clothing most of it was stuff
you didn’t have to have sizes for.
AK:
And who was he selling to?
MM: He was selling to the farmers, to the country, to the housewives and so forth. And
they would. It was amazing what they must have sold. You know through the years
we’ve had folks to bring in a napkin that belonged to tablecloth that they had given
their parents for room and board and these were still left. I remember at our 75th
anniversary party we offered prizes for items that John Mack had traded for or
bartered with their family. We got some things that were really old. It was amazing.
AK:
Now, his English was quite limited at the beginning.
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MM: Well he was always broken even when he lived with us and our family when we lived
on eastern avenue. He lived with us. But his language was very broken. Always was
AK:
I am kind of curious when he first comes here in 1903 and back again in 1907 and
then the later. This was a time when it must have been… Here is a foreigner who
barely spoke English in North Carolina in the early twentieth century. This must have
been a challenge in some ways. Did he tell stories about that kind of experience? Do
you remember any of those stories?
MM: Well, he used to talk about it. Yeah, he did say a lot of things about it. You would be
surprised he was full of stories.
AK:
Do you remember any of those stories?
MM: I don’t remember too much about that but eh. You know he had a large letter of New
Testament, which he read every night. He lived with us when we were small. He used
to get my brother, my sister, or me to help him read that dictionary. Through the
years, you know, he learned a lot of the language just by reading that large lettered
bible.
AK:
So your father, they opened that store on 1912 December 24. Your father was running
the store?
MM: Right.
AK:
And Charles was still in Lebanon?
MM: No, Charles came back. He was already back. Charles was… to start again. Then, he
opened a shoe store and after the shoe store he opened a Confectionery store. He
learned how to make ice cream and so forth. And when the town of Morrisville had
this group of citizens that wanted to use all the cream that was available. They
decided. They got a corporation together to open Morrisville Ice Cream Company.
They opened. They used Charles Mack’s farming for the ice cream, which became
Deluxe Ice Cream, which is still in business. Charles Mack was a regular connoisseur
of sweets, and food, and candy. He had a candy kitchen. He made. I remember going
in there. He had the best salted peanuts in the world. But he had coconut brittle,
peanut brittle. He had coconut creams. He had a big marble granite top table in the
back and an open top stove where they set the kettles down in and cooked the stuff.
And they’d make that vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate coconut cream ribbon candy.
They’d make the chocolate and pour it out on the table and it’d cool. They’d add the
vanilla and pour that on top of it and then it would cool. And then, they’d make the
strawberry and pour that on top of it. And they’d cut it and you’d have a tri-colored
piece of candy.
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AK:
He must have been very popular with the kids in Morrisville.
MM: That was great…today that would be gourmet stuff. They made a coconut brittle.
They made a peanut brittle. They made a coconut cream. They made nuggets. And
they carried their Hershey’s block chocolate. A big ol’ block of chocolate that you
could just chuck it off.
AK:
So he took off on his own more or less? And your father ran the department store?
MM: Well, yes.
AK:
When you were growing up…what year were you born, sir?
MM: I was born in1921.
AK:
So, let’s talk a little more about your father and then you growing up and your
childhood at this time. When you were growing up did you…was the family
involved? I mean… was there a sense of community that you were all Lebanese and
you met with other people from Lebanese families? Did you have social events,
church?
MM: Well, our house. [Interruption]
MM: Lucille, one of the daughters, married Joe Michael and my daddy married Joe’s sister,
Tabitha. And then Charles Mack lived just two houses from us. Aunt Lucille and
uncle Joe lived around the corner on Sycamore Street. We lived on Eastern Avenue.
And there were visits always. And weekends…out-of-towners folks in Charlotte;
Great Falls, South Carolina; and Langston, South Carolina. There was somebody
going back and forth almost every weekend to visit. They did a lot of visiting. And
my daddy was a community person. He was very active in the community. He did a
lot of volunteer work and he became involved boy scouting and was active until he
died in Boy Scouts. He organized scout troops here. He was our district chair. He was
a Silver Beaver recipient 1937, which is the district’s highest award they can present
to a volunteer. Of course, I became a Scout. My brother was a Scout and he became
an Eagle. I was a Scout. I became an Eagle. We were a big scouting family. But
anyway, my daddy was involved in lodge work. He was active in Chamber of
Commerce, the merchant association. He spoke English fluently. My daddy didn’t
speak with an accent.
AK:
But, he still read Arabic.
MM: Yeah, he practiced his Arabic daily with the newspaper. He read his bible in Arabic.
AK:
Did they speak Arabic at home?
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MM: Yeah, my mother and daddy spoke Arabic all the time. We would reply in English. I
am ashamed that we didn’t learn to speak it real well. We understood it real well. Just
didn’t speak it. We knew a few words we weren’t suppose to know [laughter]. You
know how that is.
AK:
The food… I assumed they prepared. Your mother…
MM: My mother cooked Lebanese food all the time.
AK:
Your mother you said is Joe Hatem’s sister. Did they move here about the same time
as well?
MM: It must have been about the same time. And Joe Michael became the partner with
Charles Mack in the candy kitchen business. Mack and Michael, they stayed partners
until uncle Charlie wanted to go wholesale. And Joe Michael didn’t want to
wholesale, so he leaves and opens up a restaurant. City Café.
AK:
In Morrisville?
MM: And they operated that for years and then they finally opened up a bowling ally. He
ran a bowling ally and pool room.
AK:
So what sort of memories do you have growing up as child in the household?
MM: Well, we were a very close family. I don’t know why but of course being the
youngest of the family I learned from everybody. I was ready when school started. I
was ready to go to school. In fact, I wanted to go a year…my birthday was in January
so I went when I was five. So, they sent me home. I had to be six. So anyway, I
started off very precociously in the first grade when I started school.
AK:
What school did you go to?
MM: ----- School then to the high school.
AK:
Morrisville High School?
MM: Yeah, Morrisville High School and then from there I graduated I went to Davidson
College. And from there I went to Harvard Business School.
AK:
When did you graduate from Davidson College?
MM: 1942
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AK:
Now growing up in the South. You know, obviously. Did people know you are of
Lebanese descent growing up? Did your friends know?
MM: You know there were a few people that made disparaging remarks. We use to be
called unattractive names. You know we had a few people to do that. But after a few
fights our family convinced us that we shouldn’t fight back. Just forget it. Just
consider the soils. In fact we were punished, if we were..If we did fight back. We had
a lot of that earlier, early on.
AK:
What about when your grandfather was travelling around and selling stuff? Were
these primarily white folks that he was selling to or some black folks that were
around here?
MM: Well there were mostly white folks. There weren’t many black folk here then. We had
a village of black people in the back of our house, a block a way from us in the back.
The blacks were all segregated back then.
AK:
But, you weren’t? You could actually integrate into the larger community?
MM: It took a long time to meld into society. It took many years before we were totally
accepted.
AK:
Do you think your father’s involvement in the lodge activities and the boy
scouting…Were those ways in which he was trying to become part of the society and
be accepted?
MM: Yea, it was. Uh huh.
AK:
Do you think that was very effective? I mean did people begin to accept him?
MM: Yes, it was very effective.
AK:
So he became a respected member of the Morrisville community.
MM: Yes. Uh huh.
AK:
It seems that the store that you established is probably one of the largest landmarks in
Morrisville. Over the years it seems like that it was a very important.
MM: Well, it was one of the three main stores in town. Until 1993, when we closed it. I am
sure we’d do better today, if we were there. You go through an evolution. The big
box retailer is taking over today. But there is still that segment of the population that
wants service. The small man if he gives service… I don’t care you have a good
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product and have a reason understanding of your market you will succeed if you give
good service.
AK:
So that was the premise of the store to offer good service to the people. I saw an
advertisement. I don’t know if it is your father or your grandfather for delivering
goods to housewives. There would be a little mark outside the house and they would
just write what ever they need and it would be delivered. Was that an advertisement
that your father ran or your grandfather?
MM: No, I am not sure who that was but I know that we used to have ice cards. You get ice
delivered that way. You hang the cards with 25…50…75…100 pounds whatever how
much ever ice you need for your ice cooler, your icebox but no I don’t remember that.
AK:
So did you work in the store growing up?
MM: Oh yeah…I grew up in the store. I ran the elevator at twelve years old.
AK:
What other kind of work did you do before you went to college?
MM: A lot of cleaning and janitorial work.
AK:
Did you feel at the as you were growing up that this was constantly hard work or it
felt like it was part of the family?
MM: Well, it was part of the family. I really didn’t enjoy retailing that much when I was
small. But, I accepted it as family.
AK:
So, let’s talk a little bit after Davidson College. You know you were talking earlier
about going to Harvard and then the war broke out I assume around that timw. So
maybe you can tell us a little bit about that story.
MM: Well, I had been accepted at the business school in November of my senior year. And
then Pearl Harbor happened December the 7th during the following month and I was a
bit concerned because although I had taken ROTC I was not in an advance course. I
wanted it but it was a mix up and I didn’t get it. I was really being billed for extra
hours. Money, I did not have. So, had to drop it. So, I started looking into other
avenues of service and so forth. The business school got me into Furman to got to that
school, saying that they needed folks in business. You have all these manufacturing
concerns, they just had been making shirts and towels but you have to start making
war goods. So they were looking ahead. Actually, I went to school to Harvard to
study Industrial Engineering. They offered a degree as an Industrial Administrator
and that’s what I started off as and I finished that course in twelve months. We had
started a Naval ROTC because the Navy came up and interviewed our entire class of
three hundred students. And one hundred and fifty of us were given commissions in
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either supply or ordinance. And then we started the volunteer program of drilling
once a week and so forth. At the end of the year, we got orders to be on active duty.
So I reported to the Naval station in Atlanta, Georgia for three months and then I was
sent back to Harvard business school to supply school to learn that trade and then
from supply school I was sent to Norfolk, Virginia to await orders over seas then I got
sent to North Africa to port ----. I was attached to the Naval Air force. It was… and a
submarine. We had two squadrons of Ventura planes and a squadron of flying boats
and everyday just search the whole Mediterranean area and the Atlantic area for
submarines. Then I was scheduled to go to Iran, to go on the southern French
invasion and the bubonic plague broke out in Dakar, Senegal. Being the junior
accountable officer there, I was sent there to close the mission. Well with Navies
dying thirty-five to fifty a day, it was not a happy thought going down there. Bullets
didn’t seem so bad compared to the plague. I get there and it rains all day, all night
long, every night. The sun comes out and you can just see the vegetation growing. We
had to sleep under mosquito nets at night. We had to wear our pants in leggings or in
boots. The Army had to move their entire base, where they ferried planes, down from
South America across the Atlantic down to Dakar and on up to the theatre of
operations. They had to move the field from inland to the coast. We had to abandon
the Naval building and move in with the Army out there. We were there, the Navy
sent in two Entomologist, they’re bug doctors. And they would go round and cordon
the areas of the natives, and dust them with DDT and so forth and spray and so forth.
Then, they would move on to the next area, the next area. When the rain finally
stopped, the plague subsided too. Of course, the fleas would live a dying rat and they
would get on the first warm body they could kill. So when it got on a human being
you got the ----- and didn’t live very long. So that was a terrible plague. I know
you’ve seen, used to see, ships at port with the big disks over the towropes the guide
ropes to keep the rats off of the ships. They carried the fleas that were infested with
the bubonic epidemic. It was quite an experience but after the rain stopped, it became
a delightful duty. It was just pleasant all the vegetation died down. We serviced all
the squadrons. We had two crash boats there. There were pt boats but we didn’t have
torpedoes, they had ----. We had two crews there that stood off shoes as the planes
landed coming from the states and as the planes were returning to the states. We
serviced one pan-American clipper a week and that was our work. Now my job was
to, my immediate job, ship out supplies we didn’t need. I shipped out three buses,
boxes of typewriters and so forth that we no longer needed. I had to make complete
inventory before I left and a complete inventory at the base, which they used after I
left.
AK:
So you spent the remainder of the war in Senegal?
MM: Well, no, I was there until D-Day. After D-day, I got orders back to Atlantic Air
Force in Norfolk and then I got on the staff of Atlantic Air Bases, which provided
support for the auxiliary airfields where they, the Navy, did all of their training. My
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job was to mainly allocate the funds for those bases, which I did success until I was
discharged.
AK:
And when were you discharged?
MM: I was discharged in May of 46’.
AK:
And you came straight back to Morrisville?
MM: I came back to Morrisville and went back to school for my fourth term. I had gotten a
letter from Harvard Business School saying I could complete my MBA in one more
term, so I took’em up on it and when back. But, I was not a happy camper in graduate
school because my father was expecting me to come back home and I wasn’t looking
forward to that. And my brother had already committed himself to not coming back,
so I decided well I’d give it a shot. I came back got married and started a family. I
have no regrets because I’ve been very fortunate.
AK:
Now you said your older brother Ed, he is the one that decline to come back to help
your father.
MM: He was discharged as Colonel in the finance corps and he went to work for Griffin
Hagan Associates, a management-consulting firm. From there he went to South
America to install a cost-system in Creole petroleum there. And when he got back he
went to Greensboro to visit his old Davidson College roommate, Charles Ross, and
when he came back he said I am going to work with Burlington. Dr. Spencer Love
offered him a job as Controller when Mr. --- retired. He had come back so he was in
charge of the internal audit and he work up to become Controller and Chief Financial
Officer and so forth.
AK:
In Burlington Factories?
MM: Burlington Industries.
AK:
You said his friend. Who was the owner at the time? Ross you said
MM: Charlie Ross was his roommate in college.
AK:
Is that related to the Ross who was President of…?
MM: That’s the father of Tom Ross who is the President of Davidson College right now.
AK:
Who’s the President of the UNC system?
MM: Who’s gone be head of the UNC on January1.
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AK:
So that was Ed’s roommate.
MM: Yes.
AK:
What was Ed’s degree in? What did he study?
MM: Economics.
AK:
So Ed took off and worked with Burlington Industries the rest of his life and you
came back, a bit unhappy, but you came back and made the best of it. So when you
came back to work here how old was your dad by that time?
MM: Oh my goodness. My father was in his sixties.
AK:
So he was getting close to retiring.
MM: Well, he actually never fully retired. Well, I guess he did. He fully retired… oh…
when he was about 75. He passed away at 79 in 1971.
AK: And so when you came back what role did you play in the store? The department
store.
MM: Well I chose the men’s department and my sister was back from New York. She
managed the ladies department.
AK:
What was she doing in New York?
MM: She had gone to school in Baltimore, Maryland and gotten a degree in Commercial
Art and then she went to Traphagan fashion school in New York. And she working
there and did not want to come back to Morrisville. And my daddy purveyed her
come back because his sister Bahia who managed ladies left to open her own shop.
Which she did and she worked the ladies department until she retired. She worked
there through 19 and um… she retired right after we celebrated our 70th Anniversary
in 1987 and I buy her share of the business over a period of time and became a third
generation owner of business.
AK:
So you begin as a manager of the men’s store then you slowly but surely bought out
the whole business.
MM: Yeah
AK:
Bahia, that’s your father’s sister, now, what kind of store did she open?
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MM: She opened a ladies shop, a beauty shop that sold ladies merchandise. She finally
closed the beauty shop and left open the ladies operation. She got married and moved
to Fayetteville, North Carolina so, she opened her Bahia shop there.
AK:
What was her married name?
MM: Weaver. She married Albert Weaver.
AK: I assumed that she has passed away as well. What’s your sisters name that came
back?
MM: Madeline.
AK:
Was she married?
MM: No
AK:
In terms of the store, outside of providing goods and services for people, do you have
memories of running the store in terms of its role in the community, outside of just
services?
MM: Well… I am a ---- and you dignify your business and service your business through
your vocation. That’s what we did. We had a Boy Scout department there, which we
had had for years. My father put that in when I was a scout. We had a very good scout
department, in fact, we had the best scout department in the whole area. But, I
remained active in scouting. I am still in scouting through this year. I am stepping
down at the end of this year. I have been in scouts for seventy-eight years.
AK:
Have you also received like your father the Silver Beaver Award?
MM: Yes, the silver beaver award in 1962.
AK:
Wow, that’s fairly early on. There aren’t very many Silver Beaver Awards, are there?
MM: Well, there are four or five a year in our council.
AK:
As your children, before we get to your children, when you were growing up was
there a recognition that have to send your kids to college that it was an important
aspect of life? Or, was there a hesitation about it?
MM: Well see, my father never had an education. And that’s one thing they prevailed.
That’s the whole thing the Mack’s work for was an education. They thought that was
number one on the list of anything. You get your education and that’s the reason we
are all able to get an education because my family believed in it.
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AK:
So, they really pushed you to get your education?
MM: Yes.
AK:
And so when you married Delores, how did you meet? Could you tell us a little bit
about how you met your wife?
MM: Well, I met my wife through a friend who was her cousin. We used to meet on buying
trips in New York and so forth.
AK:
Who is this? Who is the cousin?
MM: He was uh…oh what was his name. He was Fred Corey. He was Dolores’ father’s
nephew.
AK:
So you knew him from those trips?
MM: Of course, I visited one time. He told me to go see his niece in Burlington, smart girl,
runs a dress shop. He says I think you will like her. So I made a trip over there….
AK:
Obviously, you did.
MM: Well, she had a date that weekend so I didn’t go back. That was in March.
AK:
Which year?
MM: Oooooo golly, 1950, I guess. Then that Christmas, I got a Christmas card from her,
signed her name and she put her two brothers names on their too. Royce Edmond and
Joe [laughter]
AK:
So after Christmas, I wrote her and thanked her for her card and two weeks after that I
got another letter from her she was in Mobile, Alabama visiting her sister who had
just had another child.
MM: So I wrote her back and said let me know when you get back to
Grensville…Burlington and I will come see you. I went back to see her and we hit it
off pretty good after that.
AK:
Was there encouragement slash pressure to marry within the Lebanese community?
MM: My mother was so disappointed when my brother didn’t marry a Lebanese girl. But
anyway, my father was very broad-minded about it.
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AK:
But, you didn’t feel that kind of pressure?
MM: Well, no, I didn’t feel any pressure. That was a desire of mine to marry a Lebanese
girl. I just kind of liked the Lebanese family. Early on, there was a difference but later
in life. I am so happy that I did. I scored there.
-InterruptionMM: As a family we would get together and order things and to save on the freight.
AK:
Sure
MM: But now we can buy things in Greensboro and Charlotte.
AK:
Yeah, Its pretty close there I’m sure. If you ever come to Raleigh, there are a couple
of good Lebanese restaurants that we would love to take you to. We would love to
host you there.
MM: Well thank you. We have eaten at Cary at NeoMonde.
AK:
Yeah, it’s good. Yeah, but the Saleh brothers, the ones whp own NeoMonde, with
Greg Hatem, the one I was telling you about from Roanoke Rapids opened a new
restaurant in downtown Raleigh called Sitti.
MM: Sitti? [Laughter]
AK:
And they have photos of grandmothers, Lebanese grandmothers all around. So you
come to Raleigh, you and Delores, we would love to take you there. It’s a good place
and it’s really excellent Lebanese food. So we will make it a date whenever you come
down to our neck of the woods.
MM: We enjoyed it. In fact, we picked up their cabbage salad. You know my wife makes
cabbage salad and it has all the ingredients of tabouli.
AK:
It is really excellent. It is quite good. So, I want to ask you a little bit about food in
just a second. You said that you always had yogurt. Do you remember your mother
making yogurt?
MM: Oh, yes.
AK: The yogurt starter? So, was that something that sort of carried on with the yogurt
starter?
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MM: Well, yes, she had to keep the robin they called it. They’d have to keep it to have a
starter. So today when Delores is out of robin she buys yogurt and uses that.
AK:
So, she continues with this tradition?
MM: See you can buy good yogurt now.
AK:
Oh yes, there is very good yogurt. You do not have to make it from scratch. I
remember my mother making it for…I was talking to Phil Baddour and he was telling
me that their family has still the same starter from when they first came here. They
have kept passing it down the family.
MM: They had it for years I know that.
AK:
It’s like sourdough starter. All right, so, let’s just finish up talking a little bit more
about your children. We sort of started with your grandfather, went on to you, and
then we will talk a little bit about your children. The kinds of things they are doing.
MM: Our oldest son is a physician’s assistant and he is actively engaged in the emergency
room at Cone & Wesley Long Hospital in Greensboro. Loves his work. Just thrilled
to death. It took him years to get there. He wanted to get into Med school but you
know after college he didn’t have the grades to get into Med school. So, indirectly
through the years he finally got there. But, he is as happy as all heart. He is taking his
son this weekend to New England to see my sister and then Monday they have an
appointment at MIT. His son is a senior in high school this year. He wants to study
aeronautical engineering.
AK:
That’s wonderful.
Background: To see your daughter not sister.
MM: [Laughter] To see my oldest daughter Denise.
AK:
Oh yes, that’s right you were telling me about Denise. And so the next?
MM: The next one is my son, Ron, who’s an attorney and he works for Corey Corporation
in Greensboro. He is their legal counsel and director of their retail operations.
AK:
And that’s the Corey’s from Delores side. Your wife’s side?
MM: Yes, and then our next child is our daughter Denise who is married to Skip Valley in
Vermont and they spent three years as ambassadors to Slovakia that was a couple of
years ago. Skip is an entrepreneur. He has an extensive chain of convenient stores and
he has other businesses too. The next child is Yvonne. She is a physician. She’s a
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radiation oncologist. She mans the cancer clinic in Watauga County, Boone, North
Carolina. Loves her work. She is a part of that Charlotte group of radiation
oncologists. And our youngest child is Jeff, who lives on the lake. He has recently
separated from his wife. He’s the civil engineer from State but he gotten side tracked
during a slump in the building industry. He is a network salesman.
AK:
Network salesman, for which company?
MM: Well he started off Nu Skin. He’s been with Waiora. He’s been with Rexol. Nu Skin.
Waiora. Now, he’s looking to buy his own business.
AK:
Have you over the years been able to, we talked earlier before when we weren’t on
camera, to say in touch in Lebanon? To sort of go back and revisit? Have you been
able to go back?
MM: Well, I’ve been twice. I never thought I would ever go but my father died in 1971 and
I had a chance to go in ’71. And I just thought it was a beautiful country. I just
couldn’t get over the beauty and the antiquity. It was gorgeous. When I took my wife
back in 1997, it wasn’t as attractive the militia was on the street. There were
construction cranes all over the place. They had reclaimed the coast but it wasn’t that
attractive. But, anyway, it was still nice though.
AK:
Did you still have relatives? When you went in ’71 and then maybe in 1997 were you
able to meet up with relatives from your father’s village?
MM: In ’71, my mother had a sister, a half sister still living there. I visited her. That was
nice.
AK:
Which village were they from? Do you remember?
MM:
Dayton.
AK:
It was Dayton. And in 1997 you didn’t have?
MM: Well, we had a cousin of uncle Charlie’s first wife, who worked in this country for
many years. She went back. Her husband had a car rental service. I’d say he’s
probably lost it now. But, I don’t know. But, anyway, she came in a taxi and took us
everywhere. She was delightful hostess.
AK:
And this was in ’97 when you went with Delores?
MM: In ’97. She made our trip.
AK:
Is there something else you would like to add at this point to the interview?
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MM: Well, I don’t know, I tell ya. I just feel real fortunate. The fact that I am Lebanese is
one thing. I have just been involved in so many good things in my life. I can’t give
back enough. It’s wonderful.
AK:
Well, it’s quite apparent that you and Delores, I’m sure, have given back quite a bit to
the community because… Clearly I was looking through some books about
Morrisville and the Mack family name and your name in particular keeps coming up.
So, clearly, you have made an impact on the community. Starting with your
grandfather with the suitcase and here you are. It’s quite a story. I would be very
proud if I were you.
MM: It’s an interesting story. We’re proud. I’m just so proud of John Mack. He’s been an
eminent success for such a high character person. The whole financial market just fell
to pieces. It’s hard to understand how that happened but it happened. You know.
AK:
Well, I think you are a great success in your own way, so I think it’s much to your
credit and to Delores’ credit that you have raised a great family an done such a great
thing here.
MM: Well, thank you.
AK:
Thank you for taking the time to sit with us. I know you have a busy life.
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These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
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Lebanese-Americans--United States
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Mitchell Mack
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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1920-2014
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Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
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Mitchell Mack Interview transcript
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Lebanese--United States
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Transcription of an interview of Mitchell Mack by Akram Khater conducted on October 24, 2010. 64 minutes (see PDF).
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Akram Khater, Mitchell Mack
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Mitchell Mack
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Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
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2012
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The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Text/pdf
Language
A language of the resource
English
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
2010s
Interviews
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_010
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family In Front of a House
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Description
An account of the resource
A portrait of the Mack family seated in front of a house in an unidentified location which is probably Mooresville, North Carolina. John Mack is in the center and seated to the left is his youngest daughter, Bahia Mack Weaver. Unidentified but present in the photograph are the other five Mack children: Charles, Side, Nora, Lucille, and Sophia. Though undated, the photograph was likely taken in the 1930s.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Mack Family
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
circa 1930s
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
1930s
Families
portrait
-
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PDF Text
Text
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_014
Title
A name given to the resource
Live Models in John Mack & Son Window Display
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Family Business
Description
An account of the resource
A photograph of a window display at John Mack & Son. Bahia Mack Weaver was known as an innovative merchandiser, a tradition carried on by her niece, Madeline Mack. This photograph of a window display featuring live models Joan Morrow (left) and Dolores Mack (middle) is an example of their work. Though undated, the display was likely created by Madeline Mack in the 1950s.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
circa 1950s
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
1950s
Business
Textiles
-
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PDF Text
Text
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_018
Title
A name given to the resource
John Mack & Son Remodel Ribbon Cutting
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Family Business
Description
An account of the resource
The grand opening upon the major remodel of John Mack & Son, which took place in the mid-1950s. Second from left is Mitchell, next to his father, Side, and sister, Madeline. Other individuals in the photograph are unidentified.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Mack Family
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
circa 1955
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Business
Events
-
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PDF Text
Text
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_016
Title
A name given to the resource
Macks at their Family Store Counter
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Family Business
Description
An account of the resource
Side Mack with his grown children Madeline and Mitchell, posing together behind the counter at their family store, John Mack & Son. Though undated, the photograph was likely taken in the 1960s.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
circa 1960s
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
1960s
Business
Families
-
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/original/631ca8e2ff5f2dde2a6c81ba2c669b78.pdf
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PDF Text
Text
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_021
Title
A name given to the resource
Side Mack in front of John Mack & Son Store
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Family Business
Description
An account of the resource
Side Mack posing with his peddling cases in front of his family department store John Mack & Son.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
undated
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Business
portrait
-
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PDF Text
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_020
Title
A name given to the resource
John Mack on the Sidewalk
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Description
An account of the resource
John Mack standing outside on a sidewalk.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
undated
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
portrait
-
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PDF Text
Text
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_019
Title
A name given to the resource
John Mack & Son Store Window
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Family Business
Description
An account of the resource
A photograph of one of the intricate window displays created by Madeline Mack at John Mack & Son department store.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
undated
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Business
Textiles
-
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/original/3af8baa9630d6be48d261ecef15e227d.pdf
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PDF Text
Text
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_017
Title
A name given to the resource
Mitchell Mack in the Menswear Section
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Family Business
Description
An account of the resource
Mitchell Mack posing with a suit in the menswear department of John Mack & Son.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
undated
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Business
Textiles
-
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/original/53461b80645d73835b5f3236998bbdb9.pdf
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PDF Text
Text
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_015
Title
A name given to the resource
Bahia Mack Weaver in front of John Mack & Son Store
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Family Business
Description
An account of the resource
Bahia Mack Weaver, John Mack's youngest child, posing in front of John Mack & Son Store. Bahia served as a buyer and manager of the store through 1939.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
undated
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Business
Textiles
-
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/original/e7b4e4a8ba42e563a8cec49f0c6f3169.pdf
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PDF Text
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_012
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family Wedding Dress in a Case
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Description
An account of the resource
A photograph of a wedding dress and shoes on display in a glass case.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Mack Family
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
undated
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Textiles
Weddings
-
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/original/2f6c6c1cc38367f8a1c24a8edd748810.pdf
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PDF Text
Text
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_011
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family Group Photo
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Description
An account of the resource
The extended Mack family photographed in formal wear. Though the subjects are unidentified and the photograph is undated, it was likely taken in the late 1980s-early 1990s.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
undated
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Events
Families
-
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PDF Text
Text
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_009
Title
A name given to the resource
Side Mack Receiving a Certificate
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Description
An account of the resource
A photograph of Side Mack receiving a certificate, surrounded by a group of unidentified men.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
undated
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Awards
-
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/files/original/24878026f9557b7f6b47b7179f52f1df.pdf
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PDF Text
Text
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Mack Family
Description
An account of the resource
These materials were provided by Mitchell Mack and relate to the history of the Mack family in Mooresville, North Carolina.<br /><br />
<h5>Biography</h5>
Hanna Makhoul Fakhoury was born in Roum, Lebanon and—on the encouragement of a friend who had settled in Marion, South Carolina—emigrated to the United States in 1903, leaving behind his wife, Naceem, and their children Charles, Nora, Side (Sahid), Lucille, Sophia, and Bahia. As he passed through Ellis Island, the clerk anglicized “Hanna” to “John” and shortened “Makhoul” to “Mack,” completely disregarding the man’s surname of “Fakhoury.” While some of Hanna’s descendants regret the loss of their family name, with its obvious Lebanese heritage, their ancestor accepted his new moniker and pursued his new life in America as John Mack. Unable to speak any English, John arrived by mistake in Marion, North Carolina; aided by a kind station master, he was directed to F.A. Jacobs of Charlotte, North Carolina, a Lebanese American who helped Mack. John Mack purchased merchandise and began selling items door-to-door in North Carolina. <br /><br />In 1905, John Mack decided to return to Lebanon to visit his family and help them move back to the United States with him. However, Naceem was unsure about moving to a new country, and John returned only with his two oldest children, Nora and Charles, in 1908. A year later seventeen-year-old Side, the second son, decided to join his father and travelled with two friends to the country. Unfortunately, John and Naceem’s hopes to reunite were never fulfilled, for Naceem passed away suddenly in 1912, after which John retrieved the rest of his children.<br /><br />After an early attempt to open a store in Charlotte failed due to a fire, the family opened John Mack & Sons in Mooresville, North Carolina, on December 24, 1912. While the children of John Mack grew and took on greater responsibility in the department store, John Mack himself continued his work as a travelling salesman. With Side, Nora, and—as she grew up—the youngest child Bahia all helping to run John Mack & Son, Charles, the eldest, pursued his own business enterprises. After opening a shoe store, Charles found success in a Confectionary store, providing candies, peanut brittle, and sweet ingredients at wholesale to other companies. At first Charles ran this shop with John Ikall, who married one of the Mack daughters, Lucille; after Joe left to open a restaurant, Charles continued to successfully run the business on his own. <br /><br />Side Mack married Joe’s sister, Tabitha (Tabetta) Ikall Mack. The couple had four children together: Edward, Madeline, Margaret, and Side Mitchell. Side, taught himself to speak flawless English, became a well-respected member of Mooresville. In addition to leading and supporting local Boy Scouts, Side Mack served as a volunteer fireman and a member of the Masons for over fifty years; John Mack & Son sponsored the Mooresville Recreation Department’s athletic teams, further developing Mooresville’s community spirit. Side Mack passed away at age 79 in 1971, a beloved member of Mooresville’s community. <br /><br />Side and Tabitha’s children built upon their successes and carried forth their values. Of their four children, the eldest daughter and youngest son carried on the tradition of running John Mack & Son. Madeline, the eldest daughter, was a talented artist and designer who left her education at Maryland’s Institute of Art and Design to help her family during the Great Depression; after the outbreak of World War II called her brothers to serve in the military, Madeline assumed a prominent managerial role in the business, helping her father to sustain it throughout the depression and World War II. Mitchell, the youngest son, attended college after his military service; though he had planned to pursue a graduate degree at Harvard Business School, he decided to return to Mooresville and start a family with his spouse Delores Corey Mack, after his brother, Edward, chose to pursue a career elsewhere. Mitchell, himself a lifelong Scout and recipient of the Silver Beaver Award in 1962, ran the store’s scouting department and the menswear, while Madeline managed womenswear, advertising, and merchandising. The store remained open and thriving until 1993, when the siblings decided to close the business in order to retire. Madeline passed away on March 31, 2006.<br /><br />
<h5>Scope and Content</h5>
This collection contains photographs, articles, photographs of family artifacts, and interviews related to the history of John Mack & Sons as well as the Mack family, particularly Side Mack and his children.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese-Americans--United States
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1920-2014
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA).
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Mitchell Mack
Collection description written by Claire A. Kempa
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
kc0010_008
Title
A name given to the resource
Woman Sitting in front of a House
Subject
The topic of the resource
Lebanese--United States
Description
An account of the resource
A photograph of an unidentified woman from the Mack family seated in front of a house.
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Mitchell Mack
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
undated
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
Image/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
portrait