- Looking like Santa Claus in a cowboy suit with a guitar, Haywire Mac liked to walk through the wards of Children's Hospital in San Francisco singing "Big Rock Candy Mountain".
- Wrote stories for railroad magazines.
- Had been a railroad switchman in Rhodesia and America.
- Worked as a newspaper reporter's assistant in China during the Boxer Rebellion.
- Worked as a civilian mule train packer during the Spanish-American War supplying American troops with food and ammunition.
- Performed with the KFRC Blue Monday Jamboree.
- Began broadcasting on radio station KFRC in San Francisco in 1925.
- His Haywire Orchestra was one of the first cowboy bands in America.
- Pioneer country radio broadcaster, song writer and band leader.
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