[1] At age 19, Lean moved to Chicago, where he rose to prominence acting in a string of musical comedies at the La Salle Theater.

[1] Lean married actress Florence Holbrook in a ceremony at the Little Church Around The Corner in Manhattan on September 21, 1902.

[3] Lean first met actress Cleo Mayfield in Chicago in 1912, during the production of The Military Girl at the Ziegfeld Theatre.

[10] Prior to their marriage, Lean and Mayfield had been in a romantic relationship for over two years that only a few of their closest friends knew about.

[1][9] On July 18, 1935, in the presence of Mayfield, Lean collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack in Manhattan.