John McClellan, Jr.

From the book published in 1916 "Abbe -Abbey Genealogy In Memory of John Abbe and his Descendants" by Cleveland Abbe and Joseph Genung Nichols:

JOHN MC CLELLAN, JR., son of John and Faith (Williams) McClellan, born in Woodstock, Conn., August 31, 1812; died December 19, 1905.

He was graduated from Yale in 1833; studied medicine in Philadelphia, and, as he did not care for the practice of medicine, returned to Woodstock and became a farmer. He was living with his father in 1850.

Married February 16, 1859, OLIVE ANNA CHILD of Brooklyn, Conn., born January 31, 1830; died May 9, 1913.

John is a grandson of Gov. William Williams, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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