McClelan practiced somewhat in this county during the first half of this century, especially in the second quarter of it. He was born at Troy, N. Y., in 1788, and was a son of Hugh Stuart McClelan, who was assistant commissary-general of the Continental army during the Revolutionary War, and a distinguished patriot. The familj^ emigrated to this county from Scotland in colonial day.s ; and it has, in its various members, exhibited a good degree of that sturdy independence -and persistence which characterize people of that nationality.

William W. was well educated in the city of New York, where he studied law in the then well-known law-office of Woods & Bogart, and was admitted to practice in New York Common Pleas on the 30tli of December, 1809; in the Supreme Court on the 13th of May, 1813, as attorney ; and on the 15th of May, 1816, as counselor; in the Mayor's Court of New Y'ork City on the 20th of May, 1815 ; in Court of Chancery on the 15th of June, 1820; and in the Westchester Common Pleas on the 24th of September, 1832. He was appointed master in Chancery, on the 10th of July, 1815, and held the office for many years. He practiced his profession assiduously and successfully in the city of New York until the year 1831, when he largely retired from practice, and established himself at New Rochelle, where he continued to act as counselor and adviser until the time of his death, in November, 1854. He was really more of a New York City than a Westchester County attorney, and his principal achievements at the bar were in that city. He was a member of the Episcopal Church, and tol-