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George E. McCaughan (1937)

MCCAUGHAN, MCKNIGHT

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 5/26/2007 at 13:47:23

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Tuesday, November 2, 1937

GEORGE MCCAUGHAN DIES IN CALIFORNIA

Famed Rock Island Attorney on Claims Spent Early Years in Winterset

George E. McCaughan, son of a pioneer family in this community, died at his home in Long Beach, California, last Saturday.

He was the son of Rev. C. T. McCaughan, who brought his family here from Ohio in pioneer days. George McCaughan was reared in this community and studied law here in the office of McCaughan and Dabney. He was admitted to the bar here in 1881, and practiced here for several years before going to Des Moines to be district claims attorney for the Rock Island railroad. From Des Moines, he finally went to Chicago as general claims attorney for the Rock Island system. In late years, he has been in private practice in California.

Mr. McCaughan was married in Winterset to Emma McKnight, daughter of W. W. McKnight. They were the parents of two children, a boy and a girl.

He is survived by his son, Phillip of Long Beach, and a nephew George L. McCaughan of Ankeny. His daughter perished in the tragic Iroquois theatre fire in Buffalo, N.Y. many years ago.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, November 4, 1937
Page 1, Column 7

FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN CALIFORNIA

George McCaughan, former Winterset attorney and for years general claim attorney for the Rock Island System in Chicago, died Saturday at his home in Long Beach, California, where he had lived the last 15 years.

The McCaughan family came to Winterset in 1865 from Ohio when George was 1o years old. His father, Dr. C. T. McCaughan, was pastor of the United Presbyterian church for many years and was known to everyone as Father McCaughan.

John McCaughan, brother of George, was a school teacher and afterword an attorney and in late life, United States Consul at Durango, Mexico. Another brother, James, lived in Pittsburgh after leaving Winterset.

George McCaughan married Miss Emma McKnight, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. McKnight who lived for years in the stone house owned by Mrs. J. M. Robbins.

All of his classmates who completed the course of study offered by the Winterset schools in 1872 are dead, Luther Cassiday, Jennie Bartlett, Effie Kemis, George Bancroft, Thomas Coughley and Robert Goshorn.


 

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