Captain William Steele McClanahan (1836-1888)

Viola Cemetery, Viola, Illinois

William Steele McClanahan was a veteran of the Civil War. He served as 2nd Lieutenant of Company F, 17th Regular Illinois, and as Captain of Company A, 138th Illinois Infantry Regiment (view Pension Information). He was the Pastor in the Viola, Illinois U.P. Church from 1871-1887.

Children of William Steele McClanahan and Jennie Porter:

E1 Dr. Victor Augustus McClanahan, married Sara Fraser.

E2 Dr. Zenas McClanahan, . married Marguerite ____.

E3 Olive McClanahan, born Viola, Illinois; married Dr. Howard B. Hamilton, M.D.

E4 Enoch McClanahan, born in Viola, Illinois and died young on the same week of diphtheria as Mary.

E5 Mary McClanahan, born in Viola, Illinois and died young on the same week of diphtheria as Enoch.

E6 Rev. Paul Haldane McClanahan, born Viola, Illinois March 3, 1881, died in Waverly, Ohio August 10, 1914; graduated Monmouth College 1905, Princeton University 1906 (1st Lynde Debate Prize, Lyman Atwater Prize in Political Science) Xenia Seminary 1909, Pastor 2nd U.P. Church, Chicago, 1909-1913, married Dec 27, 1910 Mary Grace Smith, daughter of Samuel Kennedy Smith and Cora Barch Smith of Waverly, Ohio.

E7 Rev. Neal Dow McClanahan, D.D., born November 1882 in Viola, Illinois; graduated Monmouth College 1905, Princeton University, 1906 Xenia Seminary 1909 Missionary Egypt 1909-1942; married Jane Smith daughter of Fletcher Smith of Monmouth.

E8 Dr. Frank Chalmers McClanahan, M.D., born November 23, 1886, graduated from Monmouth College, Colorado College, Illinois State Physicians and Surgeons, 1913. Harvard School Tropical Medicine, 1914-1915, Fellow American College Surgeons 1937; married September 15, 1915 Helen Jane Smith, daughter of Samuel Kennedy Smith and Cora Barch Smith of Waverly, Ohio.