John McEwan died in Bay City, January 26, 1882. Mr. McEwan was one of the early pioneers, and one of the most prominent lumbermen of the Saginaw valley.

He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in the year 1825, where he learned the trade of machinist and engineer. At the age of twenty-one he married Miss Margaret Pollock. In 1848 he was offered a position as chief engineer on Her Majesty’s steamship Unicorn, then about to make a cruise to the Pacific ocean, which position he was to hold for two and one-half years.

It was arranged between himself and wife before he left Scotland, that she should go to America and remain with his father and brothers until his term of service on the Unicorn expired, and that he would rejoin her at his father’s, in Lower Saginaw, now Bay City, and settle down in some permanent business. He came to Lower Saginaw in 1851, where he found his wife and child. He then went into the lumbering business with his brothers, William and Alexander, in the northern limits of what is now Bay City, where they built extensive saw-mills. Soon after Alexander died, and the business was continued by William and John until a few years since, when William retired with a competency. John still continued the business under the name of John McEwan & Son, until his death.

He leaves a wife and six children to mourn their loss. Mr. McEwan was much respected as a prompt business man. Honest in all his dealings, few persons had more or warmer friends. Those who knew him best loved him most. His death is a great loss to the business community of the Saginaw valley.