McLean, Uriah

MCLEAN

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/24/2008 at 13:53:56

Uriah McLean

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.275, York Twp.)
Uriah McLean, farmer, P. O. Neola, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, September 7, 1846. He is the son of William and Susana McLean, of York Township, this county. He had the advantages of a common-school education. He lived at home until he was twenty years of age, when, until 1868, he was engaged in teaming across the plains. During this latter year, he farmed in this county, north of Glenwood. The following year, he crossed the plains to Denver, Colo., where he hired out as a teamster on the "fast" freight line between that city and Georgetown. He returned to Mills County, this State, in the spring of 1870, and farmed that season for his father, after which he started in for himself. In 1872, he put out a crop in Mills County in the spring, and then went to Effingham County, Ill., and sowed some land to winter wheat. He was married, at Altamont, Effingham Co., Ill., January 2, 1873. He farmed in that county with poor success until 1877, when he came to this county and rented land for three years of James Tate, in Minden Township. In August, 1880, he bought his present farm of eighty acres, situated in Section 22, York Township. Our subject's wife was Eliza Ellen Fry, born in Effingham County, Ill., September 17, 1855. She is the daughter of Frederic and Susana (Stallings) Fry. Her father was born in Franklin County, Penn., and her mother was raised in Jasper County, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. McLean have five children - Ida Maranda, James Harvey, Sarah Elizabeth, Nellie Susana and Madie Ella. In politics, Mr. McLean is a Democrat.