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Note: N496 09524-98 (Middlesex Co) Elton Harold McPHERSON, 26, news paper writer, Wyandotte Michigan, Saginaw Michigan s/o John McPHERSON and Sylvia STEWART married Elizabeth BROADBENT, 25, Brantford, London d/o Benjamin BROADBENT and , Sarah HUBBERT witn: A.W. DANIEL of London and Laura J. GADEN of Dundas, March 11, 1898, 464 Park Ave., London
Elton H. McPherson, veteran editor of the Daily world, died last night in a local hospital at the age of 71 after an illness of several weeks. Born in Wyandotte, Michigan, November 17, 1871, he had two sisters and five brothers, only one brother, Edward, of of Springfield, Ill., surviving him, besides Mrs. McPherson. As a youth he walked four miles daily to attend high school, took his first job at the age of 17 and later did newspaper work at Grand Rapids where as a youth he became city editor. He founded a trade paper in Saginaw which he operated with ditrinct success for sometime and then sold. His future wife had gone to take a nurses training, where her future husband came, following removal of a tooth. Their marriage followed on March 11, 1898 at London, Ontario. For years he traveled the United States and Canada, making a specialty of preparing sepcial editions for the newspapers of the two countries. He came to Wenatchee three decades ago and was connectred with the Daily World at that time for a year and a half. Then "Mac" went and lived from some time in Arizona and in California, returning in 1918 to become managing editor of the paper. For years he has had personal charge of the editorial page of the paper. With L.V. Wells, he helped develop the fertile Wenatchee heights area over 25 years ago and had an orchard of his own for a time, a tract in E. Wenatchee. McPherson was a member of the Episcopal church, of the Riverside Lodge F. & A. M. No. 112, Wenatchee Lodge No. 22 Royal Arch Masons, Columbia Commandery No. 14 Knights Templar; he also belonged to Wenatchee lodge B. P. O. E. No. 1186. Funeral services will be held at the Episcopal church, Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock, the Rev. W.B. Carns officiating. -"Veteran Editor Dies", The Wenatchee Daily World, Wenatchee, Washington, 15 June, 1943. In a scrapbook found in the papers of Kenneth Orlando MacPherson, Helena, Montana; currently in the possession of Lori MacPherson
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