Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-10-29
From the Neg York Oh -lys7
An O,i-Tlme Elder.

lie died At KeeseSilia. Clinton county. y
/ I. September Ilh, 1879. aged ii Years
/ THIS YVES Dr. William V. Mclean. cymsfig
/ OF Cambridge. Washington county, y \.
lie studied medicine with DR.. Dlrr. and
| began its practice in 1872, a. Greenwich
and continued IL, practice there aul At
Saltwater till ls32. Wnea il-health com
PEELED hin u abandon his chosen profession.
and in that year he established himself G.:
the little village 81 New Sweden, - on The
Aus4bls river, m Clinton county. y. Y,
where he formed a partnership Wlta John
Fitzgerald, and ~ stranger now looking
at the site OF New Sweden. .avagel hy
foods, bridge and dam gone, iorses. mills,
and everything swept way-utterly desc
lated. scattered aud peeled, -cIn form any
conception Gi the pretty litt.e hamlet. the
cheerful household and pleasant home that
Dr. Mclean founded. Sustained and Cherish
ed for 50 many wears ug thrre on the hankI
ct the great Ausahir river. and c.ull
scarcely credit the story that " here az j.
now such waste and de-olatiun. but tH.uty-
ace years ago tie good old firm ct Mel m
a Fual,rald sid so,d-, sawed lumber ani
made non 10 IA .Ntont that made them
rivals % any iulaL-s aud iron aik.r, IN
Northern New York
Both %; thJse old pArtu.f> .,tG nq- ica1
the IN lther of the household has luug beaa
sleeping on the hillside. near her Old home
the sIw and the ip-hammer are still. sad
thr village itself has disappeared Bur the
mefthry uf the honest and lair dealing hrn
of Mclean 4 Fitzgerald even Ia the midst Of
financial trouble -at dststor. sail remlins
and old nen In the region Y II! still tell yon
how the boards and the iron aud tha nsr-
chandise which Mclean X Fitzgerald
Sold were always what tnay represented
then 10 be; and how often in sickness
DR.. McLe-a gave them his professional
skill and his medicine without reward or
the hope Of reward aad slw in their
poverty and afiiction he always Fenia sibsr- !
I'd the injunction of his Divine Muster. !
looking for no reeompense bat his heaven /,
ly Fathers approval.
In 1859, tho Doctor removed 10 Keeseyiile. /
Clinton county. n. Y and resided there
till his death. He was twice marIiad-at
FIRST in 1921, to Eliza Van RGzkirk, by whom
no had five children Judge campbeil Nc
Lean of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Philip
Mclean; Mrs Elisha Arnold, of Keeseville
Mrs. W Ilartwell, and Mrs c. II.
Foote. of Plattsbnrgh - all Of whom
;urgiye him, aud all OF whom stood around
MS death-bsl lie was married second
lime to Eliza bingh2m. widow lady, and
though they never had oailiFen. he always
'eeeiyed from her children by q iGrmer
marriage tie most kindl and tilial Gtten
ion. lie Eas often delegate 10 presby-
cries and other religions and ecclesiastical
assemblies. was familiar si;5 the doctrine
nd diseip!ine Of his beloved church. spi
ook pfominaa; position on all such ocea-
ions lie losed the temperance cause and
he Sunday school. the phfis,ian religion.
he Presbyterian Church, the Holy Bible,
nd the Westminster cateehism. and tho
lew York Observer. and reminded bis friends
those grand old Covenanters in Crom-
ellis time. who wen. down to battle and to
cath singing the psalms OF David and the
,ngs Of iSs nso:tish kirk. lie feared the
ord and trusted 10 us grace. and the last !
1herent words that tEs e@s * affection {
,uPht from his dying lips were; M c
The DEGREES OF God are his eternal puJ !
ose. according to the counse! OF bis will, {
hereby for his own glory be hath foreor- t
lined whatsoever comes to pass. ". o