John McLean, a native of Scotland, came to America when he was twenty-six years old. He was born June 13, 1826, near Glasgow, and settled in Dundee, Kane county, Illinois. He was a veteran of the Civil war, having enlisted in the fall of 1864, in Company K., in the Fifteenth Iowa Regiment, and was discharged July 24, 1865. He accompanied General Sherman on his famous march to the sea. He died Jan. 20, 1907.
SOURCE: Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, The History Of Renville County, Minnesota, Volume 2, p. 1047, abstracted from the biographical sketch of Ephraim McBroom.
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