Paul Norton MacEACHRON

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Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:07:00

Paul Norton MacEachron
November 28, 1889 --- June 1, 1930

Heart Failure Takes Paul MacEachron; College Mourns Passing of Mentor.
OBERLIN, O., June 2. – (UP) – Students and Alumni of Oberlin college joined today in mourning the death of Paul N. MacEachron, Oberlin football coach, who died from heart disease yesterday as he and his family were picnicking at the college camp on Chance creek. MacEachron's body was found lying face down at the edge of the creek. The head lay in shallow water but there was no water in the creek.

A. E. Glendenning of Lorain discovered the body. He called an ambulance. When it arrived Mrs. MacEachron asked why it had been summoned. She was told that the body of an unidentified man, wearing a pink shirt, had been found in the creek. "My husband is wearing a pink shirt," she cried. She then identified his body.

MacEachron has been at Oberlin for the last five years and his teams were Ohio conference football champions during the first three. He was dean of men at Oberlin and was made full professor in physical education in 1927.

The Dayton Herald --- Dayton, Ohio
Monday, June 2, 1930

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Oberlin Grid Chief Victim Heart Attack,
OBERLIN, OHIO, June 2. – Paul N. MacEachron, football coach at Oberlin college, died suddenly Sunday from heart disease. The attack occurred in the afternoon at Chance Creek, the Oberlin college camp six miles south of here, where MacEachron had taken his family to spend the day. No one was with him when the end came. The body was found face down in two inches of water along the edge of the creek where it apparently had fallen after the fatal stroke.

The coroner pronounced death due to heart failure.
MacEachron graduated from Grinnell college, Iowa, in 1911 with an A. B. degree. Prior to coming to Oberlin in 1925 he served as dean of men at Grinnell.

Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

The Pantagraph --- Bloomington, Illinois
Monday, June 3, 1930

source --- Eileen Reed

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[interred in Glenwood Cemetery, Goldfield, Wright County, Iowa]