Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....Macready, Ben December 9, 1938
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Las Vegas Age, 12/16/1938
BEN MACREADY DIED SATURDAY

Benjamin Macready, once a pioneer mining operator at Searchlight, died in Los 
Angeles last Saturday in his eighty-seventh year after a lingering illness.  
Christian Science services were conducted and interment had in Forest Lawn 
Memorial park Monday.

Macready was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., and came west at the age of twenty to 
Denver, Colo., where he started work as a newspaper man.  He there became 
interested in mining and later operated mines in Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and 
California.

Besides his widow, Mrs. Mattie Macready, he leaves three sons, George A. 
Macready, Los Angeles geologist, and Henry and Maj. John A. Macready.  He 
lived at 300 North Plymouth Boulevard.

Macready was a Mason, Thirty-second Degree, and a member of Al Malalkah Temple 
since 1902.

"Jack" Macready, one of the sons who was best known in Clark county, enlisted 
in the air forces of the United States at the start of the World war.  He 
became famous, it will be remembered, for his non-stop cross-continent 
flights, and later for his altitude records.

Ben Macready, whom many of the older residents of Searchlight and Las Vegas 
remember well, was a scholarly, distinguished gentleman and an agreeable and 
congenial friend.  Those of us who were here when he lived in Searchlight 
express their sincere sorrow at his passing.

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