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Dr John Samuel Mclean

 On the 19th of the 10th 1878 Samuel McClean and Helen (nee
Morrison) had a little boy they chose to call John Samuel. The boy
was born in the Township where they lived in Port Albert. He had a
brother who was the first pedestrian killed by a car .I don't have any
information on his childhood but I do know he went to Scotch
college estimating around 1890 from there he went on to
 Melbourne university for a year maybe in Queens college while at
Melbourne university he joined the university with a reserve as an
officer his parents wanted him to be a priest at some time in during
that year John told them he wanted to be a doctor.
 After some consideration Johs parents decided to send him to the
best medical school, where was the best medical school in
Edinburgh so that's where they sent him the next year
 We do know that there's a family story which also pops up in a in a
in a speech he made once where while in Edinburgh doing his
medical medicine practical he got called out one night he just about
to sit down to a festive celebration dinner all the guests and a child
came to the door begging him to come quick there was a baby in
trouble bleeding from the mouth so he got up and ran out and went
out into the country up into the hills in the freezing cold and the
snow I got to this house having the sticks he had a look at the baby
and at one glance could see it was just a new tooth pouring
pushing through he was known to say later I felt like pulling it out.
 On one of the trips to Edinburgh I'm not sure which one he made of
his stop off in India and visited a friend of his in the tablelands
plateau of India and also visited the Taj Mahal I'd love to research
this a little bit as well

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 On his return from his studies, he settled in Rosedale it was here
he met his future wife Ethel Jane Bowman who lived was born in
1883 and passed away in 1945 they were married in 1906 at
Rosedale on the 26th of the 5th 1906
 They went to have a family of three although tragically five children
were born the first was a stillborn boy then number 78 to the 12th
1908 antiguan was born then on the 21st of the 8th 1912 Doreen
was born our grandmother then on the 6th of the 6th 191480 Pitt
was born and sadly there was another stillborn boy after this
 John believed in looking after his family and from a farewell speech
and or various speeches that I've seen in a newspaper article he
was very well thought of in Rosedale extremely well thought of
however he did move in around sometime in 1913 or 1914 out to
the Wimmera his daughter Gwen suffered from some bronchial
issues and he felt the dry area would be good for her .
 While he was at Morwell there's a story about that mum has
documented that why didn't know it he got a tree from a boy that
had ridden exhausted boy that had ridden and exhausted horse into
town to tell him that a tree cutter had had a tree fall on him he gone
managed to find horse and buggy interrupted a wedding or
something mum check correct that and got the groomsman to set
up buggy for great grandpa could drive quickly up to this incident
He took the boy with for directions . Left eft the boy’s horse
because it was exhausted. When they got up into the hills they
disconnected the buggy and rode the horses up into the bush With
good directions they came across the cuter crew. They ahd
managed to get the tree off the injured man. The crew carried him
down to the buggy, where there was some discussion about would
it be better to carry him all the way rather than bounce in the buggy.
It would said DR John, so would be so the men worked together in
a team rotating carrying him all the way down to the hospital at
morwell

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 I don't have any information on Wimmera what I do know is that
sometime in 2015 John moved the family to Caulfield to a house at
17 Douglas St which was then called Melrose it's still there, it's in
depending on where you look Caulfield or Malvern.
 He had a practice there for some time , settled the kids then on
the 4th of the 6th 1918 he signed up as a captain in the AMC
Australian Medical Corps third military district his records say he
was 5 foot 10 that and a half stone his chest 37 to 42 inches he
was 39 1/2 years old he then embarked on the 17th of July 19 on a
30 ship called border BORDA it was at this time the Spanish flu
was in epidemic proportions so by it was decided he would get off
the ship at Sierra Leone and he was there from the 10th the 9th
2018 until the 26th of the 9th 2018 he then arrived in England on
the 14th of the 10th reported to Dartford the second field hospital
54 reported that for and then he was assigned to 51st brigade
second field hospital this hospital was from reports I've read
designated to keep people able or keep soldiers able to fight so this
hospital did a lot of work on replacement limbs for soldiers next
lawn
 Returning to Australia and being discharged from the army he then
resumed his practice in Alvin coalfield it was during this time he
became the struggles he started to struggle with his health so at
about 1830 he moved to San Remo with the family then in about
1832 he relocated to cows and he was there until he passed away
in 1946 during this time I've read briefly an article about a coroner's
inquest into the death of a child from the seaside gardens home for
boys in New Haven on Phillip Island