The Washington herald., 1916-06-10


Arrangements for the funeral Of John
r. Mclean. flnancier. politician and pub
Usher. who died yesterday, have been
practically completed. The services will
be held at the Mclean country home at
Friendship tomorrow afternoon at 2
O'Clock. Rev. Roland Cotton Smith. pas
Itor of St Johns Episcopal Church. viii
ofilciate. Interment will be in Rock Creek
Cemetery, where Mr.. McLean's wife
father and mother are buried. The pail
bearers and other details Of the funeral
will be announced today.
| Mr.. Mclean. owner of the Washington
Post and Cincinnati Enquirer. died at 2:50
o'clock yesterday afternoon at his coun-
try mansion. Attacked with jaundice the
latter part OF March. his condition fiuc-
tuated for weeks. His life was despaired
of until May, when he began to improve.
The rally was but temporary, and two
weeks ago his condition became serious
He was unconscious for two days prior TO
death.
| Physicians attending him were Dr. Ho-
hart Hare. Of Philadelphia. and DR.
Thomas A. Clayton. of Washington, with
Iother specialists in consultation.
| Widely Travelled. conspicuous as a Demo-
crat and famous as a publisher and
| flnancier. Mr.. McLean's death was a
shock to a circle of friends extending
into two continents. He was born 6S years
ago in Cincinnati the son of DR.. Wash
ington and Mary L. Mclean. His father,
who left considerable fortune, owned a
half interest in the Cincinnati Enquirer
where the son received his early newspa-
| per training.
Took Over Enquirer.
Mr.. Mclean was educated in public and
private schools of Cincinnati, at Harvard
University and Heidelberg University.
| Germany. Returning to Cincinnati, he
entered into journalism. He acquired en-
tire control of the Enquirer and instituted
reforms in its manag agement whereby 1t
quickly became the leading newspaper of
the city and one of the influential jour-
nails of the country. He purchased the
controlling interest of the Washington
| Post in 1905.
The ample fortune left him by his
father was enhanced by Mr.. McLean's
| business intuition, who not only develop
! ed his properties by heritage. but ex-
| tended his interests until he had assumed
| position as one of the country's lead
| ing financiers. He was president of the
Washington Gas Light Company for
many years, part owner of the Old Do
minion Railway and a director In the
| Riggs National Bank and American Sc
curity and Trust Company.
Mr.. Mclean was among the Inner cir
| Gle" chieftains of the Democratic party.
| He had been delegate-at-large from Ohio
/ to numerous. national party conventions,
! in 1855 was a candidatSfor Senator and
in 1889 for Democratic governor of Ohio.
1t is said he might have been in the Sem
ate now, occupying the seat OF Senator
! Pomerene, but that he declined to be
mentioned as candidate, because of
past reverses of his party in the State
! Mr.. Mclean married Miss Emily Beale,
daughter of Gen. Edward F. Beale, OF
Washington, shortly after his graduation
from Harvard. Mrs. Mclean died in Bar
| Harbor in 1872 He is survived by his
son, Edward B. Mclean. two grandsons,
John Roll Mclean. I'd, and Vinson Walsh
! Mclean and by a sister, Mrs George
Dewey, wife of Admiral Dewey.