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C. T. McLELLAN.
C. T. McLellan, division superintendent of the Eastern Division of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, has been in railroad work since 1868, beginning as a brakeman and advancing, step by step, to his present office of great responsibility. He is a native of New England, born at Brunswick, Maine. Mr. McLellan received only a common-school education, and in every essential is a self-made man. The year 1868 found him in Iowa and there he accepted a position as brakeman in the employ of the Chicago & North-Western Railway, since which year he has worked in every branch of the operating department of railroad service. He became chief clerk in the division superintendent’s office at Las Vegas, New Mexico, later was made trainmaster, and subsequently served as conductor and trainmaster of the International & Great Northern and Texas & Pacific railroads, in Texas, prior to coming to the Santa Fe road. In September, 1890, he was appointed to his present position, a very important one. He is in charge of the following territory: From Kansas City to Emporia, by way of Topeka, and by way of Ottawa; and from St. Joseph to Topeka, including the branch through Leavenworth and branches between Hawthorne and Holliday, Lawrence and Ottawa and Osage City and Quenemo. All this territory is under his personal supervision as superintendent; he has one trainmaster, two chief dispatchers, six trick dispatchers and eight clerks.

Mr. McLellan was appointed receiver of the Leavenworth, Topeka & South-Western Railroad Company in April, 1894, and later, when the road was sold, he was elected president, a position he still fills.

Mr. McClellan was married in Missouri to Mary A. Hadley, who is a native of New Hampshire. They have one son and four daughters, the eldest of the latter being a graduate of Washburn College. They live at No. 421 Woodlawn avenue in the suburb of Potwin. Fraternally Mr. McLellan is a Mason, being a member of Siloam Lodge, No. 225, A. F. & A. M. His portrait accompanies this sketch.