In the early 1920s, McLean, along with Hub Boone, Con DePree, Dirk Van Raalte, John Kolla - and others - served on the governing board of the Warm Friend Tavern, which became home to the Holland Furnace Company's national sales conventions. That year his son, Edwin, married Edith Cappon, daughter of Isaac and Jacoba De Kok Cappon, another very influential family. In 1922, he was one of the owners of The Holland Sentinel. In 1921, he joined the board of Hope College. In the 1920s, Charles McLean joined the board of the DePree Laboratories. That year, he also served as president of the Holland Hospital Association, which raised funds to build the hospital on Michigan Street. In 1917, Charles married Laura Estelle Browning. a building now occupied by Hope College’s DePree Art Center. In 1914, they moved the factory from Fourth Street and River Avenue to 167 E. Then, Charles McLean and Cornelius VerSchure invested in the Thompson Manufacturing Company, a maker of bungalow furniture and wooden water closets, and McLean become president. In 1907, Charles McLean joined John Kolla, August Landwehr, Arend Visscher, Henry Kremers, Jacob Van Putten and others on the board of the Holland Furnace Company, and was board secretary.Īround the same time, Ida Sears McLean organized the founding of the Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (Holland) Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Sears, then also working at Holland Sugar, stayed at the Maple Avenue address. Reflecting his stature, he and Ida bought George and Maggie Hummer’s house at 191 W. Post of First State Bank, Albert LaHuis and Christian Den Herder of Zeeland State Bank, Cornelius De Roo and Heber Walsh - among others - founded the Holland Sugar Company, located between 14th Street and 15th Street west of Harrison Avenue. But the Christian Reformed Churches founded Holland Christian School in 1901 anyway, a desire many of Holland’s early families brought with them from The Netherlands.īy that time, McLean, along with George Hummer and Arend Visscher of People’s State Bank, Isaac Cappon and John C. In pursuit of that goal, he also provided summer school for Dutch emigrant children. At the same time, McLean tried to rally support for his school against the Christian school movement, arguing, in his 1893 Annual Report, that public schools provided a place where all could “meet and mingle” to form the cultural “homogeneity so indispensable to the welfare of the Republic.”
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