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of Hartford, Connecticut; New York
Athletic Club, Portland Serial Club of
Portland, (.niiin.Ttii.-ut. and was a member
of the Royal Automobile Club r \\ ilbert
!".. McClellan, was born in Edinburgh,
Scotland, and died in [912, at the advanced
age of ninety-two wars, n,- was
reared and educated in his native land,
and while yel a youth emigrated to Can-
ada, locating in Lanark County, Province
of Ontario, where he took up land, to
which he added from time to time by
purchase of various tracts, becoming an
extensive land owner. He took an active
part in local politics, and in later years,
when he had acquired a competence, took
advantage of the opportunity to make up
f' r deficiencies in his early education,
and became a great student and reader,
lie was a man of enterprise and sagacity,
worthy of the respect and esteem of his
fellow citizens, and was prominent and
influential in the affairs of the community.
He married Mary Rath, and among
their children was Wilbert Ernest, of
whom further.
Wilbert Ernest McClellan was bor- 1 . in
Lanark county, Province of Ontario,
Canada, June 1, 1882. He was educated
McCLELLAN, Wilbert Ernest,
in the public and private schools of his
Physician, Hospital Official.
native country, and this knowledge was
The State of Connecticut has been sig- supplemented by a course at the Toronto
nally favored in the class of men who have University, from which institution he was
represented the medical profession, and graduated in 1903 with the degree of
prominent among these is Dr. Wilbert E. Bachelor of Medicine. He then went to
London, England, where he performed
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post-graduate work in London University
College Hospital and Golden Square
Hospital for a period of three years, at
the expiration of which time he received
his degree of member of the Royal Col-
lege of Surgery. In 1906 he came to the
I nited States, located in Xew York City,
and became resident physician at the
Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, in
which capacity he served for about two
and a half years, gaining a wide and use-
ful experience. In 1909 he took up his
residence in Hartford, Connecticut, and