The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-02-23
JOHN A. M'CALL
PASSES AWAY
Peaceful End Of Former Life Insurance
President.
DYING MAN SMILES AT HIS WIFE.
Lie Of John A. Mccall Closes Like a cleck
That Had Ran Down-The End Had Beea
Expected for Days, and Au the Family
Were at the Bedside-Was UuconclOua
When Death Came.

Lakewood, N. J. Especially John A.
Mccall, former president of the New
York Life Insurance Company, died at
5.35 o'clock Sunday evening at the Laurel
House, Lakewood, where he had been
seriously i'll for three weeks. Mr.. Nc
Calls death was due to cirrhosis of the
liver. The end came painlessly and
peaceful.
Mr.. Mccall had been unconscious
since o'clock Sunday morning. AT
/ o'clock in the afternoon it became very
apparent that he was dying. Dr.. John
Vanderpool, of this city, who has been
attending the sick man, told the members
of the family that it was only matter OF
short time when Mr.. Mccall would
die and all of the relatives gathered
about the bedside to await the end,
Mrs. Mccall stood at the head of the
bed in the hope that her husband would
recover consciousness for brief period
and recognize her. A few minutes after
a o'clock the dying man opened his eyes,
smiled for moment at his wife and then
lapsed into state of coma, from which
he never woke.
His death, the members of the family
say. came like clock that had run down.
Mr.. McCalps physical breakdown oc-
Cured about the close of the investigat-
ing of life insurance affairs in this state
by the legislative committee December
last The report of the committee is ex-
pecetd to be submitted to the legislature
at Albany early this week. Mr.. McCalPs
examination before the committee was
severe one, and the ordeal he under
went in rehearsing in detail the affairs
of the company, and in divulging trans
actions about which the general public
was ignorant, worried him greatly, 1t
was said.
Mr.. Mccall was ill in bed at his home
| in New York, when he affixed his sigma
ture to his letter of resignation from the
presidency of the New York Life.
About three weeks ago his condition
became such that his physicians and fam
lily deemed it advisable to remove him to
Lakewood. During all this time Mr..
Mccall worried constantly about his
business affairs He was compelled first
to mortgage and then to sell his hand
some country place at Long Branch, N.
| J., in order, it was stated, to repay the
New York Life Insurance Company
$235,ooo on the Andrew Hamilton ac-
count, Mr.. Hamilton, the legislative
agent of the company, having made no
accounting for this sum-
Mr.. Mccall had promised when the
Hamilton disclosures first were made to
repay the amount named if by certain
date a satisfactory statement was not
forthcoming from Hamilton, who is now
sojounrnirg in Paris. The directors of
tie New York Life, at the expiration of
the time set, called upon Mr.. Mccall for
the payment Of the money. He aoceded
to the demands, paying $4,000 in cash
and giving his notes for $4,000, the lat
ter being secured by mortgage on his
country place, which later he sold sub
ject to the mortgage. Mr.. Mccall real
lied in all something over 100000 for
the property, which was said to have cost
him inst double that amount.