3 Mar 1945
Miami, Arizona – 3 Mar, 1945. E. H. McEachern, 67 year old veteran, political leader and businessman of this district, died here today following a long illness. He had served in a number of public offices, starting as a justice of the peace in Miami. He later became a member of the state senate from Gila county, serving in the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th legislatures. In 1939, after declining an appointment as superintendent of the state liquor license and control department, he was named by Gov. Robert Jones as a member of the Arizona Highway Commission from which he resigned last year. Active in Masonic lodge circles, McEachern was a past grand master of the grand lodge; past grand high priest of Royal Arch Masons, a Shriner and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He was a real estate agent for one of the Miami-Globe district mining companies. McEachern was a veteran of the Spanish-American war. A native of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, he came to Miami from Bisbee, 33 years ago. He had lived in the Southern Arizona city since 1902. Surviving are Mrs. McEachern, who he married at Emporia, Kan., in 1907, and a son, Dr. John H. McEachern, of Phoenix, who is in the U.S. Navy.