3 Mar 1945 Senator E.H. MacEachern
There died at Miami, Arizona, March 3, 1945, E.H. MacEachern, aged 67, political leader and businessman, and former member of the state senate. He had been ill for two months. Burial took place Wednesday afternoon with interment in the Masonic plot of Pinal cemetery. His wife survives, with one son, Dr. John H., who is in the United States Navy. Deceased was a son of the late MR and Mrs Dougald MacEachern, Cape George, Antigonish County. As a young man he worked in the Merchant Bank in Antigonish, and then went to the United States to join the U.S. Navy in the Spanish-American war. In 1902 he went to Arizona, locating first in Bisbee, and later moving on to Warren, where he built a home. Twelve years later he located in the new town of Miami, where he soon became an outstanding citizen. town’s second justice of the peace, and he served eight terms in the State Senate. His name was frequently mentioned for state governor, but in each instance a friend was already in the chair, and through loyalty he refused to become a candidate. He was in recent years a member of the state highway commission, and real estate agent for the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co. A two-column editorial in the Arizona Silver belt following his death, testified to his standing in the community. Relatives who survive Senator MacEachern in addition to his wife and son are four sisters and a brother: Mrs. D.C. Spellman, Tacoma, Washington; Mrs. Howard Hulbert, North Lochaber; Mrs. Henry Kirk and Mrs. E.H. Jocelyn, Antigonish; Elbert MacEachern, Stellarton.