Truman B. McClue, an enterprising farmer and stock-raiser of Jasper Township, residing on section 17, was born in Steuben County, Indiana, May 2, 1840, a son of John and Maria (Smith) McClue, natives of New York State. They were among the pioneers of Northeastern Indiana, and are yet living in Steuben County, aged about eighty years, and are now the only survivors of the early settlers of the township where they have made their home for so many years. There they experienced all the privations of pioneer life, but have lived to see the country change from a wild state into well-cultivated farms and thriving villages. Indians were the principal inhabitants of Steuben County when they first settled there. Truman B. McClue, the subject of this sketch, grew to manhood in Indiana, his youth being spent in assisting his father with the work of the farm and attending the district school, where he received but a limited education, but being of a studious disposition he has by close observation and study at home acquired a good practical education. He remained on his father’s farm until twenty-one years of age, when he began working for himself. He left his native State in 1868, coming to Carroll County, Iowa, buying the farm where he has since resided October 8 of the same year, which he has converted from the raw prairie into a well - ultivated farm, all well improved. This was the first piece of land recorded in Carroll County, entered by Thomas Ford May 7, 1855. Mr. McClue is a thorough, practical farmer, as the surroundings of his farm plainly indicate, and has met with excellent success in his farming operations. His farm contains 160 acres of valuable land. He is classed among the prominent stock men of his township, and is at present making a specialty of short-horn cattle. He has a fine maple grove of six acres, which he raised from seed, one tree, sixteen years old, measuring sixteen inches in diameter. Mr. McClue was united in marriage January 1, 1871, to Miss Amanda Covert, her father, John V. Covert, being a native of Kentucky, and her mother of Virginia. They are the parents of two children — Charles E., born July 5, 1874, and Byron B., born November 25, 1876. Politically Mr. McClue is a staunch Republican. He takes an active interest in the affairs of his township, and has filled the offices of township clerk, township trustee and secretary of the school board. Mrs. McClue is a member of the Presbyterian church.

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