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- MACLEAN, KENNETH
Guelph’s senior member of the Bar passed away in the General Hospital, age 76, at half past six on Thursday evening, January 13, 1921. On Tuesday the 4th, he took ill at his office and went home in a taxi cab, calling at the doctor’s on the way. On Friday following, pneumonia developed and he was moved to the hospital. On account of his age, from the first, there was much anxiety as to the outcome, though his careful manner of life always, and his well preserved physique, lent hope. On Wednesday morning, this hope was strengthened for a brief period by an apparent change for the better. The improvement was but fleeting, however. Later in the day, he grew worse. He was son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Neil MacLean, natives of Invernesshire, Scotland who came to Puslinch, concession 7, front lot 20, about a mile west of Aberfoyle, in 1848. When they sailed their little family consisted of three daughters and a son, Kenneth, then about 3 years old. The baby girl, younger than he, died at sea. On this farm, they continued to live until their death, the family being in the meantime increased by the addition of another daughter and two sons. There Kenneth spent his boyhood and was educated at Aberfoyle School under the late Mr. Weir, later attending Dr. Tassie’s school at Galt and Guelph Grammar School. He articled at law under Lemon and Peterson and later completed his legal studies at Osgoode Hall. He was admitted to the Bar in 1873 and became a partner with Lemon & Peterson until 1881, when he removed to Toronto for five years, where he joined the firm of Blake, Kerr, Boyd and Cassels. He returned to Guelph in 1886 and opened his own office. Mr. MacLean occupied a prominent position among the legal fraternity in Guelph and was known to the profession and the public alike as a wise counsellor and an honourable gentleman, worthy of the utmost trust. In his student days, Mr. MacLean came to be one of the best known young men in Guelph almost as soon as he moved there, as he played as centre fielder with the original Maple Leaf Baseball Cub. He was on the 1869 Canadian Championship team. Both the Maple Leafs and Guelph were known, as the result of their successes, by lovers of baseball throughout Canada and the U.S. Locally, the players were regarded more or less as heroes and their names were household words in the community. Though Mr. McLean did not continue to play after his student days, he was a great believer all his life in the efficacy of outdoor exercise. He was a great walker and until very recent years, might be met daily on some of the country roads about Guelph. Apart from his home and office, his chief activities were in the church to which he belonged, St. Andrew’s. Since 1890, he has been an elder and was, at the time of his death, also a trustee. He took an intelligent interest in all public affairs and exercised an influence distinguished by common sense and uprightness. In politics, he was an ardent Liberal and a worker in all elections. He was married in 1877 to Kate, elder daughter of Rev. W. S. Ball, of Knox Church in Guelph. She predeceased him in June 1916. Two sons survive, Douglas, a barrister, of Edmonton; and Gordon, an accountant in the Bank of Commerce in Guelph, with whom he resided at the parental home, 40 Spring Street, since 1916. The funeral, from his residence on Tuesday at 3 to Guelph Cemetery, was largely attended. The service was conducted by Rev. H. E. Abraham of St. Andrew’s Church. A large representation from the legal fraternity of the city and out of town relatives present were: George Ball of Toronto; Mr. A. S. Ball and Miss Bessie Ball of Woodstock; Joseph ...(line illegible) ... and A. A. McTavish of Parkhill; Neil Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. H. Stewart and Miss Stewart of Morriston. Pallbearers: J. M. Duff, Col D. McCrae, Col. John Davidson, Joseph Brown, J. I. McIntosh and Nicol Jeffrey.
--- Information from the death certificate: Born in Scotland in 1843.
--- Information from the marriage certificate: Son of Neil MacLean and Mary McKenzie.
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1843 - 1921 (78 years)
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