Volusia County FlArchives Biographies.....McClellan, Howard T. June 29, 1857 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.28-29  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present  

        McCLELLAN, HOWARD T., a lumber manufacturer at Kingston, an industrial 
suburb of Daytona, is one of the pioneers of Volusia County and has spent all 
of his life in Florida. He is now serving his fourth term as a member of the 
Volusia County School Board.
	Mr. McClellan was born on a farm near Lake City, Columbia County, 
Florida, June 29, 1857, son of SAMUEL R. and MARGARET (McCLAREN) McCLELLAN, his 
father a native of Georgia and of Scotch ancestry, and his mother a native of 
North Carolina and of Irish lineage. His parents were married in Florida. His 
father, who died in 1867, at the age of forty-five, was a farmer, and as a boy 
lived in Jefferson County, near enough to the battlefield of Natural Bridge to 
hear the roar of the cannons. Later he moved to Columbia County, and finally to 
Marion County. He was opposed to secession and slavery. He was a member of the 
Methodist Church, while his wife, who died in 1899, at the age of seventy-
three, was a Presbyterian. They had four children, one of whom died in 
childhood. HOWARD T. is the oldest. Mrs. M. O. HERBERT lives at Daytona Beach. 
N. W. McCLELLAN is a carpenter of Tampa.
	HOWARD T. McCLELLAN as a boy attended a log school house, and had to 
walk five miles to reach this temple of learning. During 1869 –70 for a few 
months he was a student in the Peabody Academy at Lake City. While his former 
school advantages were limited, he has really been a student and reader all his 
life. He was ten years of age when his father died, and being the oldest son he 
was called on to help support his mother and the younger children. The routine 
of his work and employment was on the home farm until he was twenty-one. Then 
for three years he worked in a cotton gin at Lake City during the ginning 
season, and spent two years in a sawmill at Mount Cary, close to the line of 
Baker and Columbia counties. For two years he operated the old homestead farm 
six miles west of Lake City. Then followed a brief experience in the mill in 
Nassau County, Florida, in 1888 he became a resident of Volusia County. At that 
time, thirty-five years ago, few people lived in Daytona, and there were no 
hard surface sidewalks in the town, walks and streets being covered with loose 
sand. Here he worked in a sawmill and cut half the lumber entering into the 
construction of the Central Bridge across Halifax River, and he also cut much 
of the material for the building of the homes and other structures in the 
Triple Cities. At Daytona he first worked for JOHN MANLY for four years, and 
for nine years was with the Dillingham Novelty Works, seven years of that time 
as foreman. Then, in 1905, Mr. McClellan established his lumber and woodworking 
plant at Kingston.
	Known always as an honest and public spirited citizen, Mr. McClellan 
has never desired office, and he became a member of the School Board of the 
County in 1917 by appointment. His services proved so valuable that he has been 
retained in office by three elections and deserves considerable of the credit 
for the fine school system maintained by the county. For many years he was a 
teacher of the Bible Class in the First Baptist Church, and has served as 
church clerk and deacon. He was master of the Masonic Lodge in 1895 and is also 
a Chapter and Knight Templar Mason.
	In 1886 Mr. McClellan married his first wife, who died two years later, 
leaving one son, GROVER LEROY, who was in training for the World war at Camp 
Wheeler, but after the accidental loss of one finger was not permitted to go 
overseas. He is now connected in an official way with the World war veterans in 
North Carolina. By the second marriage Mr. McClellan has the following 
children: NEVAN A., owner of a mill in Palm Beach County; ANNA BELL, who for 
six years has been in the county superintendent’s office at De Land; HEARST, 
living at Daytona; NIVA MAY, a teacher; and MARGARET M. at home.

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