Andrew Curtin McLean and Lida Caldwell

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Husband Andrew Curtin McLean ^{1 2}

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           Born: 22 Jul 1860 - Salem Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2
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         Father: James Ross McLean (1818-Aft 1888) 3 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Keck (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 1889 4

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Wife Lida Caldwell ⁴

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         Father: R. S. Caldwell (      -      ) 4
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1 F Florence McLean ⁴

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2 M Owen Caldwell McLean ⁴

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3 F Elizabeth McLean ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew Curtin McLean

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He obtained his early education from the district schools, and pursued his higher studies at Thiel College, from which he graduated in 1884 as valedictorian of his class, with the degree of A. B. He commenced teaching at Cochranton, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, where he remained for two years and then removed to Sharon, Mercer County, to become the editor of the Daily Eagle. After a time he resigned that position to assume the principalship of the public schools of West Middlesex, ably filling that position for two years. In the meantime he had studied law to such effect that he passed the preliminary examination, but did not enter active practice because of his election to the principalship of the Luckey school, of Pittsburgh. These educational duties occupied Mr. McLean from 1889 to 1905, when he was chosen president of the Protected Home Circle, in which he had been long interested and to whose advancement he made such large contributions. He was also a thirty-second degree Mason and a Mystic Shriner, and was eminent commander of Pittsburgh Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar.
While a resident of Pittsburg, Mr. McLean was prominently connected with the social functions of the city, and in 1905 was the Republican candidate for the office of City Comptroller. In 1903 he collaborated with Thomas C. Blaisdell, Ph. D., of Pittsburgh, and John Morrow, M. S., of Allegheny, in the preparation of the grammar, entitled "Steps in English," which had extensive sales. It was copyrighted and placed on the market by the American Book Company.

At the beginning of the Twentieth Century there was no American fraternity that had a more steady growth and had more firmly secured the confidence of the American household than the order known as the Protected Home Circle. Its first society was organized at Sharon, Pennsylvania, August 7, 1886, and the order had grown to a membership of about 65,000. Its supreme president beginning in 1905 was Andrew C. McLean, an honored resident of Sharon, Pennsylvania, who for years before assuming the general guidance of the Protected Home Circle had attained a high standing as an educator. The project of which he was the head had for its objects the care of the sick, the furnishing of moral social recreation, the providing of a reliable insurance at a low rate, and the general protection of the American home. At the time, the order was paying out over half a million dollars a year to its beneficiaries, and at the beginning of 1908 its reserve fund amounted to $1,011,000. It will thus be seen that it carried with it large financial, as well as moral responsibilities, and no man could have been selected to assume them with qualifications which better fitted him to carry them safely, becomingly and successfully, than Mr. McLean.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1132.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 455.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1130, 1132.

4 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 456.