"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA.  HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
MONROE TOWNSHIP
PAGE 279

JOEL C. MCCLELLAN is a native of Kentucky, was born June 16, 1822, and is
the second of the ten children of William and Elizabeth (Cline) McClellan,
respectively of Irish and German extraction, who emigrated to this county in
1836, and located in Mooresville, where Mr. McClellan followed his
trade-that of tanner-for considerable time.  He then moved to Monrovia, and
soon after purchased land and cleared a farm, on which he resided until his
death in 1844, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as is Mrs.
McClellan, who is yet living at Lake Valley.  Joel C. was reared in that
town, and from the common schools obtained a good education.  When he was
fourteen years old, he went as an apprentice to carpentering, at which he
served three years, and became a journeyman.  November 7, 1844, he married
Eliza N. Johnson.  No children have followed this union.  Mr. McClellan is
an upright man and a worthy citizen.  He is a member of the Masonic order, a
Republican in politics, and, with his wife, a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, of which he has been many years a class leader, and
assisted in organizing the first Sabbath School at Monrovia in 1881.

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