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i Decease of Judge JVIcI.ean.One of the most venerable and honorable of American citizens ha3 fallen. The Hon.John McLean, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died yesterday (Thursday) morning at 9 A. M.vat hisresidence in Clifton, three miles from this eitv. 1 His last summons was a sudden call sinceihe rode into the city' the second day lefur£ (Tuesday), and had been during a portion ’’of the winter, and when he left for Washington, in unusually good health About six weeks since, however, he took a violent cold, and owing to the fact of the distracting crowds in Washington, and the comparative absence of home comforts, with the added demands upon his titnc, occasioned by office-seekers and other visitors, he doubtless Neglected his health to a degree with him Unusual. Jle was, however, able to be upon) the bench, with the exception of a fewday' illness, during the entire winter session of tlig Supreme Court.He returned to Cincinnati on the 22nd ult., sphering Jiom a severe cough, but went about actively, and seemed in usual spirits. On the morning of Wednesday, 3rd inst.j his physician was’sent tor at an earlyhour—as the Judge was suffering much from pulmonary irritat’on, and evidently failing. He rallied amf grew better the same after-itooij, but sunk into a stupor at night, and • untjmued v% itJj gradually increasing debility , until Thursday morning, when he became unconscious, and passed away silently, aud without pain, at the hour of nine.John McLkan was born in Morris county,•/INew Jersey, on the 11th of March, 1785. His father was a farmer, possessed of iudustry, integrity and a large family, with but few of ibis world's goods. While his son John was vet a bov of four vears, he removed to theWest, settling first in Virginia, then in Kentucky, near Nieholasville, and last in Warrencount}-, Ohio, lie arrived here in 1797, whentbert? v\as not, as yet, a single brick house inthe limits of Cincinnati. The party consistedof several Kentucky farmers, who had made contracts for land in the famous Symmespurchase, and they travelled from “Limestone,” near Maysliek, to Cincinnati, by flat-boat, then the only mode of conveyance. Jons«as at that time twelve years of age, was dressed in a hunting shirt and moccasins, and with a huge butcher knife at his belt and.a rifle on his shoulder, he looked quite apioneer warrior.Arrived at Cincinnati, the part}- hired an ox-team to take them .and their small stock of movables to the Hinds they had purchased in Warren county. They traveled forty miles northward from Cincinnati, through fallen timber and mud—for, as yet, road3 were not —and encountered but one solitary house between Cincinnati and what is now Lebanon.Here the father of John McLean settled down,and dwelt for forty years, during which time lie Faw bis son rise to great distinction in theworld. *In 1804, at the age of IS, becoming possessed with the ambition to studv law. John| • . f T7 *■McLean came to,Cincinnati, and was bound by formal indentures for two years, tothe Clerk of the Court of Hamilton county. These articles Of indenture are a great curiosity, and were published in the Daily Commercial, of April 9, I860. He was aj dose student during these years, and used to build up a'great hickory fire in the winter evenings, and read and study every book he could lay his bauds on, until late of nights.He was much assisted in his law studies by the Hon. Arthi*r Sr. Clair, one of the best ounsellorsnu the West, and in his general literary pursuits, he derived advantage from the conversation and instructions of Mr. Hobert Sti bbs, an old teacher, who kept a school two miles up the Licking river, in the ,*n time. ■ f -frt 1 fcfl7 liD lYiArriArl Ppdiwi. TTnir »r»na n
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Cincinnati Daily Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, Apr 05, 1861
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