Contra Costa-Santa Clara-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....McClellan, David F. 1820 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

DAVID F. McCLELLAN.—This old and respected pioneer of California, a native of
Roane county, Tennessee, is the son of Abraham and Jane (Walker) McClellan, and
was born August 10, 1820. When one year of age his parents moved to Jackson
county, Missouri, where our subject was raised on a farm and resided until May,
1843, when he, with three companions, procured an outfit, and with mule-teams
started to cross the then almost trackless plains to California. On arriving at
South Platte, they joined a train under command of Colonel Chiles (now of Napa
county), bound for California, and continued their westward journey to Fort
Hall. Here the company separated, part continuing on the Oregon route, and part
to California, under the command of Joseph R. Walker. In the latter party was
Mr. McClellan, and, after an uneventful trip, they arrived in Gilroy, Santa
Clara county, February 1, 1844. The first two years were spent, in part, at the
trade of carpenter and hunter. He then made preparations to return to his
Missouri home, but on arriving at Fort Bridger and hearing of an Indian
outbreak, they deemed it unsafe to push further, therefore they took the
principal part of their animals and proceeded to Fort Bent, where our subject
sojourned but a short time, when he continued on his eastward journey, arriving
at his former home in the Fall of 1846. Here he resided until August, 1847, when
he, with James T. Walker and his uncle Joseph R. Walker, with several others,
started again for this State, spent the first Winter in the Rocky Mountains, and
arrived in Sacramento in the Summer of 1848. We next find Mr. McClellan keeping
a grocery store at the mines, at the same time being engaged in the stock
business in which he continued until 1850, when he paid another visit to his
home in Missouri. Staying but a few months, he again returned to this coast and
to Gilroy, where he followed his trade until the Fall. He then purchased stock
and proceeded to the mines on Maxwell's creek, where he engaged in the butcher
business for one Winter. In the Fall of 1852, our subject again paid a visit to
his home in the east; and once more, in 1853, crossed the plains, for the third
time, to this coast, and came direct to Contra Costa county, locating on the
place now owned by Lawrence Geary, where he remained until 1877, when he sold
out and purchased his present home in Pacheco; he also owns a farm of one
hundred acres, two miles southeast of the town in which he now resides.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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