John McNaught (February 2, 1849 – March 12, 1938) was a newspaper writer and editor of The Sacramento Union and The San Francisco Call; he was the personal secretary to Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World.

[2] On October 29, 1915, at age 66, he married Dr. Margaret Everitt Schallenberger (1862–1951) at her pioneer home near San Jose, California.

"[7] McNaught was a speaker when the William McKinley Memorial was unveiled on November 24, 1904, at the entrance to the Panhandle at Golden Gate Park.

[8] On October 19, 1905, McNaught traveled to New York to give a speech at the Astor Gallery of the Waldorf-Astoria for the International Advertising Association.

[10] During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, McNaught became a member of Mayor Eugene Schmitz's Committee of Fifty.

[1] When he married his second wife, Margaret Schallenberger, in 1915, McNaught moved back to California, where he became editor of The Sacramento Union.