John D. MacArthur

His father went through many evangelical trainings, moving his family all around the country, from Chicago to Nyack, New York, to Springfield, Massachusetts.

His brother, American playwright and Academy Award winning screenwriter Charles MacArthur, co-authored the play The Front Page.

[citation needed] MacArthur also increased his vast fortune by heavily and lucratively investing in Florida real estate.

[9] MacArthur first married the former Louise Ingalls and had two children: a son, U.S. businessman and philanthropist J. Roderick (1920–1984); and a daughter, Virginia.

[citation needed] On January 6, 1978, he died of pancreatic cancer at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida.