St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-04-18
Gge yntelligenter,
" Westward the course of empire takes its way"
A. Il. F. HILDItETH, Editor.
st. Charles City, Iowa, April IS, 1861.
The Lntelligenoer is the best advcrtis-
ing medium in Northern Iowa.
Death of Judge Mclean.

The Hon. John Mclean, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, died on the 4th inst, at
his residence in Clifton, three miles
from Cincinnati. His last summons
was sudden call. During the win
ter he had been in excellent health,
until the latter part of his stay in
Washington. About eight weeks
since, he took a violent cold, and ow-
ing to the fact of the distracting
crowds in Washington, and the com.
parativc absence of home comforts,
with the added demands upon his time
occasioned by Office seekers and other
visitors, he doubtless neglected his
health to degree with him unusual.
He was, however, able to be upon the
bench, with the exception of few
days illness, during the entire session
of the Supreme Court.
He returned to Cincinnati on the
22d ult., suffering from severe cough,
but went about actively, and seemed
in unusual spirits. On the morning
Of Wednesday, 3d inst, his physician
was sent for at an early hour-as he
was suffering much from pulmonary
irritation, and evidently failing. He
rallied and grew better the same af-
ternoon, but sunk into a stupor at
night, and continued with gradually
increasing debility until Thursday
morning, April 4th, when he became
unconscious, and passed away silently,
and without pain at the hour of nine.
Judge Mclean has been associate
Justice of the Supreme Court for thir-
ty-two years, having been appointed
by President Jackson in 1929. lie
has acted as Judge, during this long
and eventful term, in the Northwest
ern Circuit, and all members of the
Judiciary and the legal profession in
this region have regarded him as sons
do father-with love, confidence and
veneration. He was probably as up
right Judge as ever occupied seat
on the bench and by an unquestion-
ed integrity. the display of the high
est legal talents, a long experience
aud faithful service, had won to an
unusual degree the esteem of a very
large circle of statesmen. lawyers and
citizens who learn of his death with
with sincere sorrow.
Judge Mclean was prominent
and devoted member of the Methodist
Episcopal church. In politics he was
moderate and conservative, was iden
titled with the Wing party, and after
its dissolution became a Republican
His name has been conspicuously
brought: before Wing National Con
ventions in connection with the Pres
idcncy, as it also was before the Re
publican Nations al Convention in 1856,
and 1860. He was Judge Of the Su
preme Court of Ohio about the close O
the war of 1912 was COMMISSIONS
of the General Land Office unde
President Munroe; became Postmas
ter General under John Quincy Adams
and one of the first official acts G
Jackson was his appointment to tn
Federal Supreme Bench. He was til
senior Associate Justice of the 81
preme Court, of the Seventh Judicia
Circuit embracing the States of Ohit
Indiana, Michigan and Illinois.
Judge Mclean was born in Ne,
Jersey, in 1886, and was therefor
j seventy-five years of age. He EN-
grated to Ohio when young maj
and continued citizen of that Stat
. till the day of his death.