Limestone County AlArchives Biographies.....McClellan, Robert A. 1842 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

     ROBERT A. McCLELLAN, Attorney-at-law, Athens, was born in Lincoln County.
Tenn., December, 1842. His father was Thomas J. McClellan. a native of
Tennessee, and of Scotch descent, and his mother's maiden name was Martha
Beattie, also a native of Tennessee.

    The senior Mr. McClellan came into Limestone County in 1844, located upon a
farm ten miles east of Athens, and there followed planting until 1884, when he
retired, and, we think, moved into Athens. He died October 14, 1887. He was a
member of the Secession Convention of 1860, and voted against that movement. He
was a member of the lower house, State Legislature, in 1862, and of the
Constitutional Convention of 1865. He was not, of choice, a politician. He was
an old line Whig: a plain, common-sense man; honest, above all things:
entertaining and forcible in conversation. It was this latter accomplishment
probably that forced him into discussions and, finally, into politics. He had
the reputation of being one of the best posted men on public questions in the
county. He reared four sons to manhood. John B., the eldest, is a farmer in this
county; has served in the Legislature, and was probate judge at the time the
Reconstruction party came into power, when he was ousted. The second son,
William C., died in this county, December 11, 1869, at the age of thirty-two
years. He was four years in the Confederate Army: was captured two days before
Appomattox, and kept in prison until August, 1865. The youngest son, the Hon.
Thomas N. McClellan, is now Attorney-General of the State.

    The subject of this sketch was educated at the common schools, studied law,
and was admitted to the bar in 1868 at Athens. In the fall of 1862 he joined the
Seventh Alabama Cavalry, and served to the close of the war, holding the rank of
lieutenant, and most of the time was in command of his company. He participated
in the campaigns of Middle and Hast Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas, and
in many battles.

    He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1875, and in November of
that year was elected to the State Senate to fill out an unexpired term. His
name was before the Congressional Convention in 1880, when Wheeler was
nominated, and received a flattering vote—a majority on the first ballot.

    He was married in 1872 to Miss Aurora Pryor, a daughter of Hon. Luke Pryor.


Additional Comments:
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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
CEREAL BELT.


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