Date	Event
1912	Born in Chattanooga.
c1913	Family moved to Norwood (Cincinnati), Ohio.
1915	Moved to Dallas (later Danvers) Avenue, Ingram (Pittsburgh), Pa. Neighbors: Ross family with twins Tom and Earl, about my age. Years later, Tom was an Art Director at KM&G where I was Typographic Director.
1915	Sister Martha Ellen born.
c1916	Moved to 25 Walnut Street, Crafton, Pa. Memory: sitting in back seat of open touring car, between Mother (holding Martha Ellen) and her mother, my other Grandmother, with framed picture of Creation (which later hung in living room of our home on McMunn Avenue) back of front seat. Dad and driver (of hired car) in front seat. Neighbors: Hoge (Hogue) family, across street, with Sarah (old enough to walk me to kindergarten).
1917	Went to kindergarten in house next to Second Ward School; then to first grade (and up to sixth) at First Ward School; seventh and eighth in Second Ward School.
c1919	Moved to 73 McMunn Avenue, half a block away. I was privileged to haul some things in my little wagon. Gas lights; Dad had electricity installed soon. Neighbors: Purcell family at 69, with Caroline (older than me) and Bob (younger); Duff family at 71, with Miriam (o) and Catherine (y); Cloos family at 23 Walnut, with Helen (o) and Howard (y); Foster family at 30 Walnut, with Doris, Grace, Mary Jane, and Charles, a youngster who fell from a tree and died of injuries (all younger)—Grace is now a member of Christ UMC; Hooper family at 32 Walnut, with John (o) and others; Curtin family at c33 Walnut with Frank (o). Later Duff family moved away; replaced by his brother or cousin with Sam (o) and Catherine (y).
1921	Saw and heard first radio. (The first KDKA broadcast was 11-2-1920: Harding-Cox election returns.) Soon after that, family acquired its first radio. Listened to first 5 local stations, 3 networks. Later pursued DXing: logging distant stations.
1926	Graduated from eighth grade. Bought 3x5 Kelsey printing press. Entered high school.
c1930	Experimented with typewriter portraiture; portrait of President F. D. Roosevelt published in Ripley’s Believe It or Not.
1930	Graduated from Crafton High School; Art Editor of yearbook, Ginkgo, in senior year.
1930	Got summer job at Willoughby Printing Company in downtown Pittsburgh.
1930	Started printing course at Carnegie Institute of Technology.
1932	Ended printing course; went to summer school at CIT. Returned to Willoughby Printing. Submitted idea for "timetable" style of radio program listings to radio editor of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; hired for after-hours job compiling programs in that style, which I did for a year or two.
1936	Got job at Pickwick Press. Joined Pittsburgh Club of Printing House Craftsmen.
1936	Rode the first PCC streetcar, used as demonstrator in Pittsburgh.
1937	Started own print shop in Crafton. Printed tickets and programs for Laura, dancing teacher, among other customers.
1940	Closed shop to become more of a specialist. Started production job at Rippl Printing Company in Pittsburgh.
1941	Got better job at William G. Johnston Company.
1942	Married Laura on February 14; honeymoon bus tour of several southern states. Got apartment at 46 Walnut Street, Crafton. (Landlady was Mrs. Zapf.)
1942	December: Drafted into U.S. Army; sent to Camp Barkeley, Texas, near Abilene.
1943	Sent to specialized training at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1943	Daughter Lucinda born. Laura and baby visited me in Ann Arbor in December.
1944	Specialized training program discontinued in January; sent to camp in Wisconsin. Discharged in June.
1944	Returned to job at Johnston’s.
1944	Apartment on Vancouver Avenue, Ingram. Later moved to Preston Street, Crafton Heights. (Landlady was Mrs. Kertes.)
c1945	Moved to Scotia Street, Ingram. (Landladies, Marie and Sylvia Jamison.) Neighbors, Mrs. Petrie and Mrs. Hanna, Stowe Street.
1946	Jon born.
c1948	Bought house and moved to 16 Lyons Street, Crafton. Neighbors, Cottrell family at 18 with Elaine; Harold and Helen Carter family on Division Street (gave us two kittens about 1952).
c1948	Taught typesetting at CIT night school.
1950	Got job as Type Director (later Typographic Director) at Ketchum, MacLeod & Grove advertising agency.
1950s	Rode trolleys in D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Toronto, Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, as well as last runs in Emsworth, Mt. Washington, Carnegie, Crafton, and some of the West Penn, Altoona, and Johnstown lines.
1952	Moved to 8 Belvidere Street. Neighbors: Dr. and Mrs. (Catherine) Staduhar with Alice; Jo Ann and Ray Boyer.
1954	Rode first three museum streetcars to new Arden Trolley Museum site. [This later became The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum.] Later edited movies by Bob Brown, Art Ellis, and myself into comprehensive story of move.
c1954–’55	President, Pittsburgh Club of Printing House Craftsmen; delegate to International convention in Los Angeles; took family on vacation trip including SF, LA, Disneyland, Grand Canyon.
1960	Moved to 98 Poplar Drive, Mt. Lebanon. Neighbors, Tommy and (Elaine?) Powdrill; Bill and Dorothy Sherwood.
1960	Joined Christ Methodist Church, Bethel Park.
1962–’63	Built house at 181 Mt. Lebanon Boulevard; moved in. Neighbors, Sharrow family, soon replaced by Stanley and Barbara Moskal, with Danny, Dennis, and Barbara.
1950s–’70s	Wrote about 300 columns and articles on type and typography for Typo Graphic, A. D. Assistant, The Typographer, Inland Printer, Typographic i, and other publications.
1963	Researched and drew all-time map of Pittsburgh-area trolley lines.
c1965	Taught typography class at Ivy School of Commercial Art.
c1968	Became Usher Captain at Christ UMC.
c1969	Vice president, Pennsylvania Railway Museum Association (PRMA).
c1970	Declined to run for president of PRMA due to conflicting activities.
c1970	Designed and worked on first issue of Christ Church Reporter, also pictorial directories and other church publications.
c1975	Wrote The Streetcar Era, published by Maple Press.
1977	Officially retired December 31; continued work as independent contractor until April 30.
1979	Announced intention to write book on typefaces, at annual convention of Typocrafters.
1980	Laura and I visited Cindy in Australia; vacationed there and in New Zealand and California.
1981	Laura and I attended Jon and Bridget’s wedding outside London.
1986	First edition of American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century published by Myriade Press after much research and correspondence.
1987	Moved to Asbury Heights Retirement Community.
1989	Attended Cindy and Larry’s wedding.
1992	Laura and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary.
1993	Laura died June 14.
1993	Second edition of American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century published by Oak Knoll Books after much more research and correspondence.
1997	Cataract operation.
1999	Mac McGrew lost a considerable portion of his vision, leaving him unable to read except to a very limited extent under the best conditions.
1999	Presented with the President’s Award from The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum for 25 years of volunteer work as the Design and Production Editor for their bimonthly newsletter, Trolley Fare.
2000	Asbury officially opened the Asbury Walking Trail, designed by Mac. In October, he helped cut the ribbon to inaugurate the course.
2002	Appointed as Life Member #3 of The Amalgamated Printers' Association, a hobby group which he belonged to for many years.
2002	Moved to Asbury Villas (across the street from Asbury Heights).