Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-03-27
Or. James marshali Moclanahan.

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On the morning Of March the l4th,
1907, the subject OF this sketch died 1t
his home at Retreat, sc. In the deesA
OF DIR. McClanahan the county sustainaa
Q serious loss, he having been for over
thirty years e resident OF the county,
and during this time prominently CON
nected with the affairs of his profession.
he was a man OF very high order Of In
telligence, possessing naturally q very
brilliant mind. As q conyersationalist
he was peculiarly gifted, his integrity
and moral worth being beyond question.
As a husband and father his gentle de-
~yotion and liberal indulgenoe were pro
verbal, he having indeed spent q life of
total un~selfishness for the loved ones
about him. The following is copied from
Eminent and Representative Men OF
the Carolinas": 81.
"Dr. James Marshall Mechanically q
leading physician of wainaiia, was born
in Greenyille county, South Carolina, on
. farm, bordering on Salude River, Jaun-
airy 10th, 1910. His father, Samuel q.
|~McClanahan, was a farmer and q natt}e
also of Greenville county. He was O
very suceessfhl farmer and one Of the
few men whom the war left as we'll to-do
as it&found him. The maiden name Of
his wife, the mother Of the subject of
this sketch, was Harriet Harrison, a ma
[tisecof Greenyille county and a daughter
of Capt. Jack Harrison. DIR. MoClana-
han on his paternal side is of SCOTCH de-
scent. de spent the first twenty-one
years of his life mostly on q farns in
Greensille county. He received a COM
plete education at Furman University,
at which institution he completed the
junior year. At the age of nineteen he
left the University and entered upon the
study Of law, 1t being the desire of his
father that he become a lawyer. The
loyal profession was not in accordance
with his tastes, however, and after
studying law for four or five months he
gave up the idea of becoming a lawyer
and began the study Of medicine, which
had been bis personal choice from the
beginning. He pursued his medical
studies under the direction of DR.. James
Harrison, his uncle, for one year proceed
ing the a On June the 4th, 1851, he
he gave up his studies to enter the Con-
federate service a. | on that day was en-
rolled az a member of the Hampton
Legion, which subsequently became the
Second South Carolina Cavalry, com
manded by Col. M. G. Butler. He re-
manned in the service until the close of
the war, acting during the last three
years as a non-commissioned officer. He
was In several of the most important
engagements of the war and discharged
his duties in a loyal and soldierly man.
ner.
"At the close of the war he resumed his
favorite study, continuing it for two
years uuder the p~receptorship of DR..
Baylis Earle, of Greenville, an eminent
physician of. his time. Before the waA
while under the tuition of DR.. Harrison,
he had taken a course of lectures In the
South Carolina Medical College at
Charleston. This institution he re.en.
tered In the fall of 1863, and graduated
n year later. He at once began the
practice of his profession in Greenyille
and has devoted his attention to it, with
one or two slight Interruptions, ever
since. His practice has been attended
with unusual success.
'He located in Oconee county in 1874,
and came to Walhalla, the county seat,
in 1890, DR.. McClanahan ranks among
the physicians in the upper part of the
State and enjoys an extensive and sue
cessful practice. In politics he adheres
to the Democratic party, and in his reli-
gious views, subscribes to the creed of
the Baptist church, being a member of
that body. He is also a member of the
Knights of Honor, and of the Farmers
Alliance. He retains his interest in the
farming industry, which he has carried
on ever since the close of the war. DIR.
McClanahan was married February 22d,
1870, to Miss Mary Evelyn Werner, a
native of Oconee county and daughter of
f.. p. Werner. They have four living
children, n son and three daughters"
DR.. M~cClanahan was the moving spirit
in the organization of the Oconee Medi-
cal Society some years ago, and was the
president of the same for q number. of
years. His death will be felt keenly by
not only his friends and loved Ones, but
by q large acquaintance among the
poorer class, who have felt and known
the charity of his hand. A large con-
of sorrowing friends attended the
last sad rites at the cemetery of the Re-
treat Presbyterian church, where SER
vices were conducted by DR.. j.. j.. Har-
rell.-M. ". s., In Seneca Journal.
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