Donald R. McLennan
Donald R. McLennan was born in 1873 in Duluth, Minnesota and died on October 14, 1944 in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of the insurance brokerage firm Burroughs, Marsh & McLennan in 1905, which was renamed Marsh & McLennan in 1906. At the time of his death, the firm had offices in Chicago, San Francisco, New York, and twenty other cities. In 2005, it had over 57,000 employees and annual revenues close to $12 billion. [1]
Professional Life
McLennan sat on the boards of the American Sugar Refining Company, the Evergreen Mines Company, Armour & Company, the First National Bank of Lake Forest, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Peoples Gas, Light and Coke Company, the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company, the Pullman Company, Pullman, Inc., the Chicago Corporation, and the Empire Securities Company. [2]
Personal Life
McLennan was married to Katherine Noyes McLennan, with whom he had three sons (Donald R. McLennan, Jr., George Noyes McLennan, and William L. McLennan) and three daughters (Jane McLennan Ober, Margaret McLennan Morse, and Katherine McLennan Brown). One of his grandsons, Scotty McLennan (son of William L. McLennan), is the Dean for Religious Life at Stanford University in Stanford, California, where he teaches business ethics at the Graduate School of Business
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