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Mcclellan, Carswell

civil engineer, author, was born Dec. 3, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a topographical assistant on the staff of General A. Α.. Humphreys in the civil war. Afterward a civil engineer in railroad and government service. He was the author of The Personal Memoirs and Military History of U. S. Grant versus The Record of the Army of the Potomac. He died in 1892.

MCCLELLAN, CHARLES A. O., lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 25, 1835, in Ashland, Ohio. For two years he gave instruction in penmanship. For four years he was deputy auditor of De Kalb county, Ind., and in 1860 was appointed United States deputy marshal. In 1862 he was admitted to the bar; and in 1872 was appointed judge of the fortieth judicial circuit of Indiana.

In 1873 he established the De Kalb bank of Waterloo; and since 1885 has been president of the First National bank of Auburn, Ind. He was elected to the fiftyfirst and fifty-second congresses.

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