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NameFirst: McLellan ~J. W.
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Parents: Joseph and Fidelia (Reed) McLellan
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EducationCareer: LaPorte County schools; 2 1/2 yrs. At Westville High School; grad. From State Normal School at Oswego, NY; learned photography from John Bryant in LaPorte
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OriginalNotes: Goodspeed, Weston A., and Charles Blanchard. 1882. Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana: Historical and Biographical, Illustrated. Chicago, Illinois: F. A. Battey & Company. pp. 260-261:
JOHN W. McLELLAN, photographer, is a native of La Porte County, Ind., his birth occurring August 2, 1848. He is the youngest son of a family of seven children, six yet living, born to Joseph and Fidelia (Reed) McLellan, who were natives of Vermont and Michigan, and of Scotch and Pennsylvania Dutch descent respectively. Joseph McLellan was a farmer, and came to La Porte County, Ind., in 1833, settling in Cool Spring Township, but afterward moving to Scipio Township, where he died in July 1881, preceded by his wife, both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. John W. was reared in La Porte County, Ind., where he acquired a good common school education, afterward attending for two and one-half years the High School of Westville, Ind., and then attending and graduating from the State Normal School at Oswego, N. Y. He learned the photographic art in La Porte, Ind., of John Bryant, and for a short time afterward was engaged in the business at Rockford, Ill. In December 1873, he came to Valparaiso and purchased the studio of W. H. Hayward. He is a member of the National Photographic Association of the United States, and has an established and enviable reputation as a photographer. He was married August 20, 1873, to Miss Huldah A. Forbes, daughter of J. R. Forbes, appropriate mention of whom is made in the biographical department of Washington Township. To this union have been born two children - Mattie P. and Frank C., deceased. Mrs. McLellan was born July 13, 1849 in Canada. Mr. and Mrs. McLellan are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. McLellan is a Republican, and a member of the I.O.O.F.

Flickr, www.flickr.com/photos/shookphotos/5966633963 [viewed 2/13/2017]: text by Steve Shook about an envelope for H. J. Upthegrove clothing
"William H. Holabird began the production of shooting suits around 1869. The suits became rather popular, but Holabird sold the business in 1871 to H. J. Upthegrove and John W. McLellan due to health issues. It is believed that the business later came under the sole ownership of Upthegrove, and in 1882 there were 15 individuals employed by Upthegrove in the manufacture and sale of shooting suits."
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OriginalSource: Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana: Historical and Biographical, Illustrated. Pp. 260-261:
He learned the photographic art in La Porte, Ind., of John Bryant, and for a short time afterward was engaged in the business at Rockford, Ill. In December 1873, he came to Valparaiso and purchased the studio of W. H. Hayward.
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OriginalSource: Valparaiso City Directory, ads on many pages
J. W. McLellan, photographer, e. Main, Empire Block, res. 31 Washington and Valparaiso
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He learned the photographic art in La Porte, Ind., of John Bryant, and for a short time afterward was engaged in the business at Rockford, Ill. In December 1873, he came to Valparaiso and purchased the studio of W. H. Hayward.
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OriginalSource: Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana: Historical and Biographical, Illustrated. Pp. 260-261:
He learned the photographic art in La Porte, Ind., of John Bryant, and for a short time afterward was engaged in the business at Rockford, Ill. In December 1873, he came to Valparaiso and purchased the studio of W. H. Hayward. 

1880-81 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 1028 (J. W. McLellan)
Godfrey family history [exact citation not known, much of this info. From "Andrew Mudge and His Descendants - 1943" by Edson H. Mudge], p. 44 Marion M. Mudge in about 1881 took brief art course in Normal School and then found a place in the McLellan Photo Studio to learn the business…in 1885 he sold his part of Elkhart Gallery to brother and after a time purchased the McLellan Studio at Valparaiso.
The Photographic Times and American Photographer, May 1881, vo. XI, No. 125 (New York : Scovill Manufacturing Company)
"Second Annual Announcement of the Photographers' Association of America." p. 4 at end of volume. List of members: J. W. McClellan, Valparaiso, Ind.

1879-80 Williams & Co. Indiana State Directory, p. 369

1882-83 Indiana State Gazetteer, p. 1088

1884-85 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 1064 (John W. McClellan)

Chesterton Tribune - May 07, 1885 Go to McLellans, at Valparaiso for photographs. He is the best in town.

Shook, "Photographers of Porter County"
Earliest known work is from 1873. Operated a studio in the Empire Block of East Main Street (now Lincolnway) in Valparaiso. Listed as a photographer in 1885 city directory. Purchased the Valparaiso studio of Edwin J. Hayward and Warren H. Hayward in December 1873. Moved to Pasadena, California around 1897.
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OriginalSource: CDV: written on back Dec. 6, 1877

CDV: [some of his CDV backs have the date printed on them; I have seen 1878, 1881, and 1883]

cabinet photograph J. W. McLellan, Valparaiso, 1882

1870s cabinet card: Main St., opp. Gould House

Stereoview with pink front and purple back (ca. 1870s or 1880s): Valparaiso Views Made at J. W. Mc Lellan's Gallery, on West Main Street, Call and Leave Your Orders
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