McLean, Charles F. 1859 - 1885

HOFFMAN, MCLEAN

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Date: 2/15/2005 at 00:17:18

Fairfield Ledger
June 24, 1885
Page 2 col. 6

DROWNING ACCIDENT. Death of CHARLES F. MCLEAN in Kansas. The young man was drowned in Shore Creek near Milan on Friday evening. Age 26 years. Not married. Was in the employ of the sulky plow manufacturing company of Detroit, Michigan, and had been in that section of the country only a few days. He was unacquainted with the ford and drove in, thinking, no doubt, that he could easily make the crossing. The young man’s mother, a very estimable lady, is matron of the Orphans Home at Davenport. The remains of MR. MCLEAN arrived in this city Saturday on the Rock Island road. The body was taken to the residence of ISAAC HOFFMAN, an uncle, by marriage, of the deceased. CHARLEY was the only son of his mother, born in this county Dec. 20, 1859. His father, WILLIAM L. MCLEAN, died in 1878. The Masonic fraternity conducted the corpse to the grave.

Fairfield Tribune
June 25, 1885
Page 3 col. 4

Death of CHARLES F. MCLANE [sic]