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| Otto Rogers McClelland |
History of the Illinois Central Railroad Co. and Representative Employees, Page 274
Railroad Historical Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1900; Page 275
OTTO R. McCLELLAND, who is at present the oldest man on the list outside of a preferred run, entered the service of the Illinois Central as a brakeman on the local in 1889, under conductor B. C. Michaels. He was promoted to conductor in 1895, and is now in the freight service between Clinton and Centralia.
Mr. McClelland was born near the city of Centralia, Illinois, on August 16, 1869, and is a member of Weldon Spring Lodge No. 400, O.R. C. of Clinton, and K. P. No. 26 of that city.
Decatur Review 27 January 1923 page 11 column A (NewspaperArchive.com)
I.C. Conductor Dies in Clinton
O.R. McClelland Ill for Some Weeks
Clinton, Jan. 27–O.R. McClelland, prominent Illinois Central conductor for many years, died in the John Warner hospital Friday evening following an extended illness. Deceased suffered the second attack of cerebral hemorrhage several weeks ago while on his run between here and Centralia, and was taken from the train at Para and removed to the Huber Memorial hospital. Later he was brought to the John Warner hospital here, where everything possible had been done for him.
Mr. McClelland was born at Central City, Ill. Aug. 3, 1868, where he remained until he was twenty-one years of age and commenced work with the Illinois Central, where he had since been employed. For the last twenty-five years he had been a conductor, first in freight service and later in passenger service, and had many friends along the line.
In 1900 he was married to Miss Lilly Mathern at Evansville, Ind. and the couple came to Clinton to make their home. Two children were born to them, Orville at home and Mrs. Helen Crum of Clinton. Aside from the wife and children he is survived by a brother, Marion McClelland of Champaign, and one sister, Mrs. Thomas Burke of Clinton. (Note by MMWR: the sister is stepsister Olive)
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