McLean, Nevin P., 1866-1923

MCLEAN, KNAPP

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/19/2017 at 21:06:08

From the Rock Valley Bee, August 3, 1923:

NEVIN P. McLEAN, FORMER RESIDENT DIED JULY 24.

From Corvallis, Oregon, comes word of the death of Nevin P. McLean, which occurred in that city on Tuesday evening July 24.

Mr. McLean and his family will be remembered by all the older residents of Rock Valley and this part of Sioux County, for the family lived in Rock Valley and vicinity for many years. His father, Robert McLean, was one of the earliest of the pioneers here, having taken a homestead west of Rock Valley in 1873. Mr. McLean was only seven years old when he came here with his parents and he lived in this vicinity until 1910, when he moved out to the Pacific Coast and located at Pendleton, Oregon.

In this community, Mr. McLean was always one of the best citizens. Every worthy enterprise had his support. For many years he farmed, afterwards going into the grain business and finally he established an implement business. In every undertaking he was successful because of his integrity and disposition to be fair and honorable with everyone. His character was above reproach, and his reputation was just as good as his character; everyone respected and loved him. When he and his family decided to emigrate to the Northwest, their many friends felt that the community had sustained a great loss.

The family lived in Pendleton about eight years, during which time Mr. McLean was in the automobile business. About that time he became interested in a large farming enterprise in Canada, near Calgary, and for the last two years had given considerable of his time and energy to his farming operations. A year ago, the family located in Corvallis so as to be with his sons who were attending the State Agricultural College of Oregon.

Mr. McLean was born at Clarinda, Iowa, April 12, 1866. He was married to Miss Edith Knapp, and three children were born to them, Kenneth, Allen and Charles. All the children as well as the widow survive him. His mother, Mrs. Robert McLean, and sister, Miss Inez McLean, were with him at the time of his death. They had come a month earlier from Colorado, where the latter had been teaching school, to spend the summer in Oregon.

Mrs. McLean's mother, and her brother, Dudley Knapp, live at Forest Grove, Oregon, not far from Corvallis; her sister Mrs. C. J. Fink, who may be better remembered as Georgia Knapp, who ran a pharmacy in Rock Valley before her marriage to Mr. Fink, then of the State Bank of Rock Valley, came up from Riverside, California, to be present at the funeral. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McLean, the former a brother of the deceased, also came from their home at Windom, Minn.

Brief services were held at Corvallis on Saturday afternoon, after which the remains were taken to Pendleton to be laid to rest in the mausoleum there. Funeral services were also held at Pendleton Sunday afternoon and were largely attended by former neighbors and friends. The floral tributes were many and beautiful.