McClelland, Frank M.

FRANK M. McCLELLAND, physician, Utica, was born in Mill Creek township, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1859, and is a son of William B. and Sarah (Craw) McClelland, natives of Pennsylvania and New York, respectively. William B. McClelland was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, but grew to manhood in Mercer county, where he still resides, being one of the representative farmers of Mill Creek township. The doctor’s paternal ancestors were among the sturdy Irish Presbyterian settlers who came to the western part of Pennsylvania early in the present century, his grandfather, John McClelland, locating in Mercer county about the year 1825. He was a farmer by occupation, is remembered as a man of energy and sterling integrity, and was drowned in the Allegheny river about 1829, while rafting timber to Pittsburgh. On the maternal side Doctor McClelland is descended from English ancestry, and traces his family back to the early settlement of Vermont, from which state his grandfather removed to New York state and from thence to Pennsylvania about 1844, and settled in Utica, Venango county, where for some time he was in the employ of A.W. Raymond, the leading business man of the place. He also carried on farming for some years, and died about the year 1858. William B. and Sarah McClelland are the parents of eight children, six of whom are living: Maggie, wife of Charles H. Adams; Frank M.; Amos E.; Bessie I.; Hattie A., and Cora. The names of the deceased members of the family are Maurice and John.

Doctor McClelland passed his youth on the home farm in Mercer county, attending such schools as the county afforded, and later pursued his studies in the Utica high school, McElwain Institute, Mercer county, and at Edinboro, Erie county, in all of which he made substantial progress in the higher branches. In 1878 he began teaching in the public schools of Mercer county, and followed that calling about seven years, reading medicine in the meantime under the instructions of Doctor D.S. Brown, of Utica. In 1885 he entered the medical department of the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, from which institution he graduated in the spring of 1887, taking the class prize in materia medica and therapeutics. After graduation he located at Utica, where he has since built up a lucrative practice in the counties of Venango and Mercer. Doctor McClelland was married July 4, 1888, to Miss Flora M. McQuiston, daughter of Andrew and Evaline McQuiston of Mercer county. He is a member of the Venango county Medical Society, a Prohibitionist in politics, and with his wife belongs to the United Presbyterian church.