Son of W B McClellan and Juliette Smith
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McCLELLAN, Hon. WILLIAM R.
Hon. William R. McClellan was born in Washington county, Texas, in 1846, and he is a son of one of the pioneers of that county. W. B. McClellan, who came from Tennessee in 1841, but he was born in North Carolina. The son William was reared in Washington county, and while yet a boy he went into the Confederate army, joining Company F, Twenty-first Texas Cavalry, and he served until the close of the war in the Trans-Mississippi Department, Parson's Brigade, Steele's Division. He was in hard service in Arkansas and Louisiana, including the hostilities in connection with the Banks' expedition, and he took part in the battle of Yellow Bayou, the last engagement fought west of the Mississippi river.
After the close of the war Mr. McClellan returned to his home in Washington county, and later went to Ledbetter in Fayette County, where he embarked in the mercantile business and enjoyed continued success and financial prosperity until retiring from that business in 1893. In the same year he came to Coleman, which has since been his home, and during his first nine years here was engaged mainly in trading in cattle, since living retired, although he has large and important interests in Coleman and in Coleman County. He is a director of the Coleman National Bank and has a fine stock farm three miles west of the town and a beautiful city residence. Mr. McClellan's only political honor and which came to him unsought was his election to the legislature in 1899, 1901 and 1905, representing the One Hundred and Eighth legislative district, which comprises Brown and Coleman counties. He served in the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-ninth legislatures, and his most important and useful services in the legislature, commencing with the Twenty-sixth session, were in his successful opposition to the proposed land legislation which came up at that time and which if it had been enacted would have been the means of depriving actual settlers of millions of acres of the state school land and thus retarded the community's development. This proposed legislation was in the interest of land speculators, as it would have disposed of all school lands in the state in bodies of not less than ten thousand acres at from seventy-five cents to one dollar an acre, no actual settlement being required. Mr. McClellan's efforts as a legislator were widely recognized, and they proved of signal usefulness to his state. He is one of the substantial and resourceful citizens of Coleman County, a retired merchant, a bank director and a wealthy farmer and stockman.
He married in Washington county Lou Ratliff, who was born in Mississippi, and they have four children: Claud McClellan, Mrs. Mary O'Hair, Mrs. Lela Johnson and Mrs. Mildred Woodward, all living in Coleman. The Hon. William R. McClellan is a member of the Masonic order and of the Christian church. (Source: A History of Central and Western Texas, Vol 1, Captain B. B. Paddock, The Lewis Publishing Company, New York, 1911
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
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McCLELLAN, Hon. WILLIAM R.
Hon. William R. McClellan was born in Washington county, Texas, in 1846, and he is a son of one of the pioneers of that county. W. B. McClellan, who came from Tennessee in 1841, but he was born in North Carolina. The son William was reared in Washington county, and while yet a boy he went into the Confederate army, joining Company F, Twenty-first Texas Cavalry, and he served until the close of the war in the Trans-Mississippi Department, Parson's Brigade, Steele's Division. He was in hard service in Arkansas and Louisiana, including the hostilities in connection with the Banks' expedition, and he took part in the battle of Yellow Bayou, the last engagement fought west of the Mississippi river.
After the close of the war Mr. McClellan returned to his home in Washington county, and later went to Ledbetter in Fayette County, where he embarked in the mercantile business and enjoyed continued success and financial prosperity until retiring from that business in 1893. In the same year he came to Coleman, which has since been his home, and during his first nine years here was engaged mainly in trading in cattle, since living retired, although he has large and important interests in Coleman and in Coleman County. He is a director of the Coleman National Bank and has a fine stock farm three miles west of the town and a beautiful city residence. Mr. McClellan's only political honor and which came to him unsought was his election to the legislature in 1899, 1901 and 1905, representing the One Hundred and Eighth legislative district, which comprises Brown and Coleman counties. He served in the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-ninth legislatures, and his most important and useful services in the legislature, commencing with the Twenty-sixth session, were in his successful opposition to the proposed land legislation which came up at that time and which if it had been enacted would have been the means of depriving actual settlers of millions of acres of the state school land and thus retarded the community's development. This proposed legislation was in the interest of land speculators, as it would have disposed of all school lands in the state in bodies of not less than ten thousand acres at from seventy-five cents to one dollar an acre, no actual settlement being required. Mr. McClellan's efforts as a legislator were widely recognized, and they proved of signal usefulness to his state. He is one of the substantial and resourceful citizens of Coleman County, a retired merchant, a bank director and a wealthy farmer and stockman.
He married in Washington county Lou Ratliff, who was born in Mississippi, and they have four children: Claud McClellan, Mrs. Mary O'Hair, Mrs. Lela Johnson and Mrs. Mildred Woodward, all living in Coleman. The Hon. William R. McClellan is a member of the Masonic order and of the Christian church. (Source: A History of Central and Western Texas, Vol 1, Captain B. B. Paddock, The Lewis Publishing Company, New York, 1911
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
Son of W B McClellan and Juliette Smith
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McCLELLAN, Hon. WILLIAM R.
Hon. William R. McClellan was born in Washington county, Texas, in 1846, and he is a son of one of the pioneers of that county. W. B. McClellan, who came from Tennessee in 1841, but he was born in North Carolina. The son William was reared in Washington county, and while yet a boy he went into the Confederate army, joining Company F, Twenty-first Texas Cavalry, and he served until the close of the war in the Trans-Mississippi Department, Parson's Brigade, Steele's Division. He was in hard service in Arkansas and Louisiana, including the hostilities in connection with the Banks' expedition, and he took part in the battle of Yellow Bayou, the last engagement fought west of the Mississippi river.
After the close of the war Mr. McClellan returned to his home in Washington county, and later went to Ledbetter in Fayette County, where he embarked in the mercantile business and enjoyed continued success and financial prosperity until retiring from that business in 1893. In the same year he came to Coleman, which has since been his home, and during his first nine years here was engaged mainly in trading in cattle, since living retired, although he has large and important interests in Coleman and in Coleman County. He is a director of the Coleman National Bank and has a fine stock farm three miles west of the town and a beautiful city residence. Mr. McClellan's only political honor and which came to him unsought was his election to the legislature in 1899, 1901 and 1905, representing the One Hundred and Eighth legislative district, which comprises Brown and Coleman counties. He served in the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-ninth legislatures, and his most important and useful services in the legislature, commencing with the Twenty-sixth session, were in his successful opposition to the proposed land legislation which came up at that time and which if it had been enacted would have been the means of depriving actual settlers of millions of acres of the state school land and thus retarded the community's development. This proposed legislation was in the interest of land speculators, as it would have disposed of all school lands in the state in bodies of not less than ten thousand acres at from seventy-five cents to one dollar an acre, no actual settlement being required. Mr. McClellan's efforts as a legislator were widely recognized, and they proved of signal usefulness to his state. He is one of the substantial and resourceful citizens of Coleman County, a retired merchant, a bank director and a wealthy farmer and stockman.
He married in Washington county Lou Ratliff, who was born in Mississippi, and they have four children: Claud McClellan, Mrs. Mary O'Hair, Mrs. Lela Johnson and Mrs. Mildred Woodward, all living in Coleman. The Hon. William R. McClellan is a member of the Masonic order and of the Christian church. (Source: A History of Central and Western Texas, Vol 1, Captain B. B. Paddock, The Lewis Publishing Company, New York, 1911
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
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McCLELLAN, Hon. WILLIAM R.
Hon. William R. McClellan was born in Washington county, Texas, in 1846, and he is a son of one of the pioneers of that county. W. B. McClellan, who came from Tennessee in 1841, but he was born in North Carolina. The son William was reared in Washington county, and while yet a boy he went into the Confederate army, joining Company F, Twenty-first Texas Cavalry, and he served until the close of the war in the Trans-Mississippi Department, Parson's Brigade, Steele's Division. He was in hard service in Arkansas and Louisiana, including the hostilities in connection with the Banks' expedition, and he took part in the battle of Yellow Bayou, the last engagement fought west of the Mississippi river.
After the close of the war Mr. McClellan returned to his home in Washington county, and later went to Ledbetter in Fayette County, where he embarked in the mercantile business and enjoyed continued success and financial prosperity until retiring from that business in 1893. In the same year he came to Coleman, which has since been his home, and during his first nine years here was engaged mainly in trading in cattle, since living retired, although he has large and important interests in Coleman and in Coleman County. He is a director of the Coleman National Bank and has a fine stock farm three miles west of the town and a beautiful city residence. Mr. McClellan's only political honor and which came to him unsought was his election to the legislature in 1899, 1901 and 1905, representing the One Hundred and Eighth legislative district, which comprises Brown and Coleman counties. He served in the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-ninth legislatures, and his most important and useful services in the legislature, commencing with the Twenty-sixth session, were in his successful opposition to the proposed land legislation which came up at that time and which if it had been enacted would have been the means of depriving actual settlers of millions of acres of the state school land and thus retarded the community's development. This proposed legislation was in the interest of land speculators, as it would have disposed of all school lands in the state in bodies of not less than ten thousand acres at from seventy-five cents to one dollar an acre, no actual settlement being required. Mr. McClellan's efforts as a legislator were widely recognized, and they proved of signal usefulness to his state. He is one of the substantial and resourceful citizens of Coleman County, a retired merchant, a bank director and a wealthy farmer and stockman.
He married in Washington county Lou Ratliff, who was born in Mississippi, and they have four children: Claud McClellan, Mrs. Mary O'Hair, Mrs. Lela Johnson and Mrs. Mildred Woodward, all living in Coleman. The Hon. William R. McClellan is a member of the Masonic order and of the Christian church. (Source: A History of Central and Western Texas, Vol 1, Captain B. B. Paddock, The Lewis Publishing Company, New York, 1911
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
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