Nebraska
City, Neb., July 27 (Special)
Death
Of Another Pioneer
John
H. McMechan of Nebraska City in his
Fifty-eighth Year
John
H. McMechan, one of Otoe County's pioneers
and prominent citizens, died at his
residence
in
Four Mile precint Monday evening, aged
fifty-eight years, five months and four
days.
The
deceased was born in Zanesville, O.,
and at the age of fifteen came to this
city with his parents,
who
laid out what is now Kearney addition
to Nebraska City.
He
commenced freighting across the plains
in 1850. In 1860 he engaged with
his brother in the
wholesale
grocery business in Denver, but in 1863
they were burned out and returned tothis
city
and
was in the hardware business until 1869,
when he went into his fathers'.
Was
a man highly respected and esteemed
by all, an honest upright and industrious
homestead
where
he has resided since. He was a
member of the community in which he
lived.
Nebraska State Journal, Wednesday
Morning, July 28, 1897