George S. and Elliott S. McCleary are profitably engaged in business as dairymen and farmers, and each has a well-stocked and finely equipped dairy farm in Nelson Township. These gentlemen are natives of Lawrence County, Pa.
Elliott S. McCleary has won a fine reputation as a farmer of much ability, who employs modern methods in conducting his operations, keeps his farm up to a high standard in point of cultivation and improvement, and is raising first-class stock. His homestead lies on sections 12 and 13, Nelson Township, and here he and his family live very pleasantly. He gives much attention to the dairy business and has thirty-five cows of the finest breed for that purpose, which net him a good yearly income.
He has found in his wife, formerly Miss Melinda Gruver, a capable coadjutor in the making of a home. Their marriage was celebrated in Nelson Township, where Mrs. McCleary was reared and educated, coming here with her parents when a child. She, like her husband, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Columbia County in 1853. and is a daughter of Ujinli Gruver, a wealthy farmer, living in Dixon.
Our subjects are sons of William McCleary, who was a native of the same Pennsylvania county in which they were born.
Source: “George and Elliot S. McCleary” <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Portraits & Biographical Record of Lee County IL</span>. Chicago: Biographical Pub. Co., 1892. 211-212.