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JOHN .M'CALL DIESPOOR
Former President of the New York
Life Expires at Lakewood.
Grief Over Insurance Exposures and Loss
tribute It to Clrrhosls of tho Liver.

Lakewood, N. John Augustine
Mccall, formerly President Of the New
York Life Insurance Company, died ut
5.35 p. m. in the Laurel House, here.
Mr.. Mccall had been unconscious for
nearly forty-eight hours before he ex-
pired. Mrs. Mccall went into the sick
room half an hour before her husband
died, and it was thought that he lifted
his eyes in recognition. From that
moment he sank rapidly. He was in
his fifty-seventh year.
Besides Mrs. Mccall there were al
the bedside Mr.. and Mrs. John C
Mccall, MI. and Mrs. Ballard MCCALL
Mr.. and Mrs. leo. Mccall, Stanley Nc.
Call, Clifford Mccall and the insurance
mans two daughters, Mrs. Darwin p
Kingsley and Mrs. Albert M. McClave.
and his brother, Supreme. Court JUS
tice Edward e. McCal,.
From one o'clock on until Sir. Mccall
died the litany for t3e dying was re-
cited at the bedside. The sick man
had prepared for death, and for days
had been thoroughly resigned to the
lACFAldULC. VI IL udy DClOtS ms
death he sent for the Rev. Father
Thomas B. Healy, pastor Of the Church
of st. Mary Of the Lake, and extreme
JUNCTION was administered. Father
Healy had anointed Mr.. Mccall sew
eral days previous.
John A. Mccall was born in Albany
on March 2. 1S49. His parents were
of Irish extraction. His father kept
q little corner grocery store in the dis:
trict known as Gander Bay, and was
the Democratic Supervisor Of his
ward.
Young Mccall went to the public
school in Gander Bay and served for
a while as a butchers boy in a mar
ket at Clinton avenue and North Pearl
street. He played first base Oh the
old semi-professional Live Oaks base
ball team.
He entered a business school in Al
bany and was graduated in 1865. In
1869 Mr.. Mccall. then twenty years
old, obtained a clerkship in the actu-
arial department of the State In
surance Department under Superin-
tendent George w. Miller, a Democrat,
with a salary of. 5000 a year. From
that time until his resignation from the
New York Life, on January 4, 1906, 20
he had been continuously in insurance.
At twenty-five lie was receiving
$1,000 a year as clerk in the Insurance
Department. Governor Cleveland
made him head Of the department and
Governor Hill continued him in Office
until 1886. .
Then the Equitable Life offered him
$4,000 a year IS controller. Present
ly, when the President Of the New
York Life, Mr.. Beers, was forced out,
Mr.. Mccall was selected for the va
cancy. His services in the New York
Life covered fourteen years, and at the
last he was receiving a salary Of
100000.
John A. Mccall died comparatively
a poor man. When his estate is settled
it will be found that its total worth is
less than S150,000. Out Of the large
amount of insurance he carried there
is less than $4,000 remaining for the
widow.
Almost $780, 900 worth. of life insur-
ance and his beautiful country place,
Shadow Lawn, Long Branch, were sac-
rifced to pay back to. the New York
Life Insurance Company moneys adj
vanced to Andrew Hamilton, which
Mr.. Mccall sWore before the ARM
strong committee had been paid to
protect the interests Of the policy hold
erS.
His mother, now e~ighty-sx years
old, lives in Albany, N. Y.
Fnte of Men Involved In Insurance
Disclosures.
John A. Mccall, dead, fortune shat
tered.
J. W. Alexander, mental and phys
ical wreck.
James II. Hyde, self-e1patriated in
Paris.
Robert A. McCurdy, preparing to
follow Hyde.
Robert II. McCurdy, preparing to
follow his father.
Judge Andy Hamilton, On the
Riviera.
Thomas D. Jordan, in seclusion.
Andrew Fields, in seclusion.
Louis Thebaud, going to Paris.
w. H. Mcintyre, in seclusion.
George W. Perkins, reputation
smirehed.
Chauncey W. De2ew, damaged in
reputation.