| Title |
McLean, Alexander |
| Date |
b. ca. 1823 |
| Description |
Alexander McLean, born in Scotland ca. 1823, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia in 1849. McLean resided in Pennsylvania
by 1847 and at 5 Paynter's Court in Southwark in 1849. Between 1850 and the early 1870s, Mclean continued in the trade, first
in Louisville, Ky. and then St. Louis Mo.
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According to the 1870 census, McLean resided in St. Louis. His household included his wife Caroline (b. ca. 1830), whom he
married in the later 1840s, and three of his four recorded children, including son and lithographer Alexander, Jr. (b. 1849),
who joined his father in business after 1860. McLean owned real estate valued at $5000 and personal estate valued at $10000.
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He may be the Alexander McClean who applied for or received citizenship in Philadelphia in 1844. |
| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1850, 1870 |
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Groce & Wallace, 416 |
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Library Company of Philadelphia research file |
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Passenger and Immigrations Lists Index, 1500s-1900s |
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Peters, 277 |
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Philadelphia Business and City Directories, 1849 |
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WWWAA, 2141 |
