Cemetery records have death year as 1902, while marker and obituary state 1907.
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Single.
Former Justice of the Peace.
Listed as a machinist in the Amsterdam City Directories.
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BUFFALO EVENING NEWS
Thursday, July 25, 1907
MISER FOUND DEAD.
AMSTERDAM, N.Y., July 25. - William E. McLachlan, a recluse living on a small farm in Cranes Hollow, a few miles from this city, was found dead on the floor of his home by a neighbor, with eight stab wounds in his body, three of which had reached vital parts. McLachlan, who was estimated to be worth $75,000 lived alone in a miserly way and made something of an income from repairing clocks and guns.
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Brother of Milton [of Walkill, N.Y.] and Simon P. McLachlan [of Schenectady].
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Single.
Former Justice of the Peace.
Listed as a machinist in the Amsterdam City Directories.
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BUFFALO EVENING NEWS
Thursday, July 25, 1907
MISER FOUND DEAD.
AMSTERDAM, N.Y., July 25. - William E. McLachlan, a recluse living on a small farm in Cranes Hollow, a few miles from this city, was found dead on the floor of his home by a neighbor, with eight stab wounds in his body, three of which had reached vital parts. McLachlan, who was estimated to be worth $75,000 lived alone in a miserly way and made something of an income from repairing clocks and guns.
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Brother of Milton [of Walkill, N.Y.] and Simon P. McLachlan [of Schenectady].
Cemetery records have death year as 1902, while marker and obituary state 1907.
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Single.
Former Justice of the Peace.
Listed as a machinist in the Amsterdam City Directories.
___
BUFFALO EVENING NEWS
Thursday, July 25, 1907
MISER FOUND DEAD.
AMSTERDAM, N.Y., July 25. - William E. McLachlan, a recluse living on a small farm in Cranes Hollow, a few miles from this city, was found dead on the floor of his home by a neighbor, with eight stab wounds in his body, three of which had reached vital parts. McLachlan, who was estimated to be worth $75,000 lived alone in a miserly way and made something of an income from repairing clocks and guns.
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Brother of Milton [of Walkill, N.Y.] and Simon P. McLachlan [of Schenectady].
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Single.
Former Justice of the Peace.
Listed as a machinist in the Amsterdam City Directories.
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BUFFALO EVENING NEWS
Thursday, July 25, 1907
MISER FOUND DEAD.
AMSTERDAM, N.Y., July 25. - William E. McLachlan, a recluse living on a small farm in Cranes Hollow, a few miles from this city, was found dead on the floor of his home by a neighbor, with eight stab wounds in his body, three of which had reached vital parts. McLachlan, who was estimated to be worth $75,000 lived alone in a miserly way and made something of an income from repairing clocks and guns.
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Brother of Milton [of Walkill, N.Y.] and Simon P. McLachlan [of Schenectady].
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