From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 713-714.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


E. H. McCLEAN

E. H. McClean, a farmer and stock-dealer who resides upon a valuable 
farm three miles from Moundsville, in the region known as Round 
Bottom, was born in Marshall county, April 15, 1847.  His 
grandfather, Col. Archibald McClean purchased the land just mentioned 
from Gen. Washington, a letter from whom to the colonel is now in the 
possession of E. H. McClean.  This ancestor was a prominent man, and 
published a newspaper at Elizabethtown, now Moundsville, called the 
BEACON.  His son, Joseph, who assisted in editing the BEACON, was a 
farmer by occupation, and surveyor, serving as county surveyor many 
years and establishing the line between Ohio and Marshall county.   
He was also deputy for Judge J. H. Dickey in the same office.  He 
died in 1863, aged sixty-three years, and his wife, Maria Humphrey, 
died in 1880, aged seventy-seven years.  But one child was born to 
these parents, the subject of this mention.  E. H. received his 
education at Strickersville, Penn., at Moundsville, and at Gambier, 
Ohio.  At the age of twenty-one years he embarked in raising and 
dealing in stock, and in this he is quite successful, having a fine 
stock farm, upon which are found thoroughbred and trotting horses, 
descendants of Lexington, Holstein-Fresian cattle, Chester-white 
hogs, and on Mr. McClean's domain scientific and practical 
agriculture is not neglected.  His home is in one of the most 
beautiful locations of the neighborhood.  In 1870 Mr. McClean was 
married to A. R., daughter of L.T. Gray, by whom he had one child, a 
daughter.  Parents and daughter are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal church.  Mr. McClean has been a trustee since the building 
of McClean chapel in 1887.  This was built on the farm, and named in 
honor of his father and grandfather McClean.       


(Linda Fluharty)