Biography of John Allen McClellan, page 155 / 156. History of Northeast Indiana; LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the editorial supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and William H. McIntosh. The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and New York, 1920. John Allen McClellan, owner of one of the good farms in section 2 of Jackson Township, DeKalb County, is a man who has surmounted many difficulties in his career, and remembering the hardships of his early life has endeavored to smooth out as far as possible the pathway of his own children. Mr. McClellan was born in DeKalb County August 7, 1859, a son of Harvey and Eliza (George) McClellan. His father was a native of Wayne County, Ohio, and his mother of DeKalb County, Indiana. Harvey McClellan was married in DeKalb County and then settled in Richland Township. Not long afterward he enlisted as a Union soldier in the Civil war and died while in the army. He left two young children; Laura, wife of William Dorson, of Corunna; and John Allen. John A. McClellan hardly remembers his father, and he grew up in the home of his grandfather George. He had only a common school education and at the age of seventeen he went to work to earn his living as a railroad man. For three years he was employed as a locomotive fireman by the Baltimore & Ohio road. He then married Viola Shull and for three years lived on the Shull Farm and then bought eighty acres where he resides today. His grandfather George spent his last years and was tenderly cared for in the home of Mr. and Mrs. McClellan. Mr. McClellan does general farming and stock raising. He has two children. John is a graduate of the State University of Indiana, is a successful teacher in Chicago, and is married and has one child. Emma L. is a graduate of the common schools and the wife of Howard Hootmier. Submitted by: Arlene Goodwin Auburn, Indiana Agoodwin@ctlnet.com