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   The Goodspeed Publishing Company,
   History of Tennessee, 1887

       WILLIAM McCLELLAN, farmer, was born in Sullivan County October 14,
   1809, the son of ABRAHAM and NANCY (MOSS) McCLELLAN, the former born
   in this county in 1788, the son of ABRAHAM, Sr., a Scotchman, whose
   occupation was farming. The father, a prominent farmer, was State sen-
   ator for two terms, and a member of the convention to revise the state
   constitution. He was in the Indian war of 1836, and the following year
   became a Congressman and served three terms, during which time our sub-
   ject was with him at Washington as his private secretary. In 1866 he
   died after several years of retired life.  The mother was born in 1788
   in this county. The parents were of Irish origin. Our subject attended
   college for a time at Elizabethton and Blountville. He began early as a
   farmer, and when twenty-two years old became a merchant so successful
   that he is now retired from active business, and is one of the leading
   citizens of his county. June 14, 1844, he married HANNAH, a daughter 
   of JONATHAN BACHMAN, a prominent pioneer of this State and of German
   origin. They have four sons and four daughters. He and his wife are
   Presbyterians.

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