HIRAM McCLELLAN.
For many years the subject of this review, Hiram McClellan, has been engaged in agricultural pursuits in Champaign county, and in the locality where he has so long resided he is loved and honored for his many noble characteristics. A native son of the Keystone state, his birth there occurred in Lancaster county, June 28, 1829. His father, Joseph McClellan, was a native of Philadelphia, that state, while the paternal grandparents of our subject were born in either Ireland or Scotland. In a very early day they located in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where they followed the tilling of the soil. There the son; Joseph was reared to years of maturity, but in 1853 he left the home of his youth for the Buckeye state, where he resided from that time until 1865, and in the latter year he took up his abode in Brown county, Illinois, his death there occurring in Galesburg. In political matters he gave a stanch support to Republican principles, and his last presidential vote was cast for Lincoln at his second election. He was then in a very feeble condition, but such was his enthusiasm and public spirit that he was carried to the polls, entirely against his physician's advice. His death occurred when he had reached his sixty-ninth year. As a companion on the journey of life he chose Clarisa Souder, a native of Maryland, but when sixteen years of age she accompanied her parents on their removal to Pennsylvania. Her father, David Souder, was a mechanic and also a carpenter and builder, and he lived to the ripe old age of ninety-four years. Late in life he removed to Tiffin, Ohio, and when he was ninety-three years of age he walked a mile and a quarter to the polls to vote for Lincoln at his second election. The town of Soudersburg, Pennsylvania, was named in his honor. His wife reached the age of seventy-five years. She was a sister of Senator Peffer's mother.
[Correction: David Souder's wife, Judith Hoffman was actually the MOTHER of Senator Peffer's mother, Elizabeth Souders]
(remainder omitted but listed on Hiram McClellan's Person Page.
