Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....McClellan, Samuel R. 1806 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    SAMUEL R. McCLELLAN, M. D.. was born in Colerain, Mass., March 19, 1806; at
the age of 9 years, he went to Livingston, near Hudson, and, after he was 21,
went to Claverick, N. Y., where he established the Public Library. In 1836, he
went to Hudson, N. Y., where he lived until 1845, when he came to Wheatland
Township, now Randall, where he located on Sec. 28, and occupied himself with
agricultural pursuits and the practice of his profession. In 1862, he removed to
Wilmot and, in 1864, came to Kenosha. The Doctor has been engaged in medical
practice fifty-two years. In 1847-48, he was a member of the Second
Constitutional Convention. As President of the Agricultural Society, in 1851, he
delivered the first printed address before agricultural societies in the State.
He was President of that society three years. He was Superintendent of Schools
before the county system was established. While living in Hudson, he was
President of that county Medical Society. On the 27th of October, 1830, he
married Catherine M. Garner, who is a native of Kinderhook, N. Y.; she was born
Oct. 26, 1809. They have six children-Robert W., John J., Samuel, Edward Garner,
Mary Belle and Cynthia Maud. The Doctor and his wife are members of the
Congregational Church.

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THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)


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