Bedford County PA Archives Biographies.....McLellan, George W. 
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GEORGE W. McLELLAN, an energetic and successful 
agriculturist of Colerain township, Bedford County, was born 
in Colerain, March 2, 1843, a son of Abraham and Elizabeth 
(Morgart) McLellan.
  Abraham McLellan was born in Delaware.  He came with an 
uncle, a Mr. Pierson, to Bedford County, Pennsylvania, when 
a boy, and he grew to manhood on a farm about three miles 
from Everett.  Early thrown upon his own resources, he 
worked at anything that he could find to do, sometimes being 
employed as a farm hand, sometimes driving a team.  When old 
enough to learn a trade, he served an apprenticeship at 
shoemaking, which he subsequently followed a number of 
years.  After his marriage with Elizabeth Morgart, of 
Bedford County, he came to Colerain, where he purchased a 
good farm of two hundred acres, the homestead now owned by 
his son George W., and for about fifty-eight years, or until 
his death, in 1882, carried on general farming with good 
success.  A firm supporter of the Democratic party, he took 
an active part in local affairs, and for a time served as 
Tax Collector of the township.  For a number of years he was 
officially connected with the State militia as the head of a 
company, and was familiarly known as Captain McLellan.  He 
was a Deacon in the Baptist church.  Of his children the 
following-named survive: Mary, widow of John James, late of 
Colerain, Pa.; John H. C., also of Colerain; Josiah, of 
Somerset County, Pennsylvania; Thomas R., living in Ohio; 
and George W.
  George W. McLellan in his boyhood obtained a limited 
education in the district schools, which he attended in the 
winter seasons.  His subsequent advancement in learning has 
been by reading and practical experience.  Having succeeded 
to the ownership of the parental homestead, he has since 
been prosperously engaged in its management, and as a 
general farmer and stock-raiser ranks second to none in the 
neighborhood.  Well endowed with public spirit, he takes a 
keen interest in all things pertaining to the welfare of the 
town in which he has spent his life, and has served for a 
year in each of the following-named offices - School 
Director, Assessor, and Supervisor, having been elected to 
each on the Democratic ticket, which he invariably supports. 
 He belongs to the Baptist church, in which he is now 
serving as Deacon.
  Mr. McLellan married Annie R., daughter of Benjamin 
Greenland, late of Fulton County, Pennsylvania, and they 
have four children, namely: Charles E., who married Drusilla 
Perdew, by whom he has one son, George E.; Hubert A.; 
Chester G.; and Mary L.


Source: Bedford Biographical Review, 1899, Bedford Co., Pa