Jacob Leslie Mcclellan

As printed in 1908

JACOB LESLIE McCLELLAN, who died on his farm in Springfield Township April 30, 1892, was one of the highly esteemed citizens of this section, in which a large part of his useful life had been spent. He was born May 2, 1821, in Pennsylvania, and was a son of George and Isabella (Leslie) McClellan.

In his infancy Mr. McClellan was brought by his parents to Richland County, Ohio, where his father followed shoemaking. He was educated in the country schools and at Wittenberg College, at Springfield, after which he began to teach school. He became very popular as a teacher, first in Springfield Township and later in other sections. He was the teacher at the Sinking Creek School for several years, also at the Reid School, and during a part of this time he was a boarder at the home of Caleb Tuttle, the leading farmer of the community, whose daughter Rachel he subsequently married. He continued teaching for several years after marriage, and then turned his attention to farming and moved to the fai-m of one hundred and four acres on which Mrs. McClellan resides. It was formerly the property of her father, Caleb Tuttle, who owned about a thousand acres of land in Clark County. Mr. Mc- Clellan resided on this farm and carried on a general line of agriculture. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church.

On AprU 8, 1852, Jacob L. McClellan was married to Rachel Tuttle, who is a daughter of Caleb and Mary (Prickett) Tuttle. Caleb Tuttle was born in Virginia in 1799 and was a son of Sylvanus Tuttle, who came to Clark County in 1806 and settled on a farm in Moorefield Township, near the present home of Mrs. Mc- Clellan. Caleb Tiittle married Mary Prickett, who was a daughter of Nicholas Prickett, who came from Claremont County to Clark County, Ohio, and ran the first flour mill at Lagonda. Of Caleb Tuttle's large family but two survive — Mrs. MeClellan and Miss Laura Tuttle. In her girlhood Mrs. MeClellan taught one term of school, but otherwise her attention has always been directed to looking after her domestic affairs and to providing for the happiness and comfort of her family. Mr. and Mrs. MeClellan had five children born to them, as follows: Mary Isabella, who married John H. Gower, resides in Harmony Township; Eliza Jane, who married G. W. Yeazell, resides in Springfield Township; Emma, who married W. B. Curtis, resides at Springfield; Alice, who married M. D. Doyle; and William Leslie, who died February 18, 1903. For eight years he was money order clerk at the Springfield postoffice. He married Maud Leuty and she survives with two sons, John Leuty and James Henry.

Mrs. MeClellan attended school in the building that is now utilized for a religious edifice and is known as the Union Sinking Creek Church. Mrs. MeClellan belongs to the Presbyterian faith. She has resided on her present farm since

As printed in 20th century history of Springfield, and Clark County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1908). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.