Carl Magee 1992, featuring a choice of battery or solar power, among other improvements. According to its website, the company today “has the largest plant in the world devoted to the manufacturing of digital parking meters.” Magee switched from Republican to Democrat and ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate. He is best known in journalism today for the E.W. Scripps Company motto, adopted from Dante for the "Albuquerque Tribune" and which is now carried by all Scripps chain newspapers: “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.” Magee died in Tulsa, Oklahoma in February 1946. Carl Magee Carlton Cole
Martha Magee before her death, Magee bequeathed £20,000 in her will to the Presbyterian Church of Ireland to found a college for theology and the arts. Martha Magee Martha Magee (c. 1755-1846) was a philanthropist and a co-founder and the namesake of Magee College in Ireland. Martha Maria Magee was born in Lurgan around 1755. She married Rev. William Magee, a Presbyterian minister, who was ordained in 1780 and died in 1800 leaving her dependent on the Presbyterian Widow's Fund. Magee raised two sons, both of whom entered the military and died as young men. Magee inherited substantial money from her two