Men and women of America; a biographical dictionary of contemporaries . ral medicaland army societies and social clubs. Hemarried in Athens, Tenn., Sept. 28, 1865,Sarah Maria, daughter of Judge CharlesF. Keith, and has one son. Address: Careof the Adjutant Genera) 7. S. A., Wash-ington, D. C. CLELAND, McKenzie: IMunicipal judge; born at Delhi, N. Y.,Oct. 8, 1860; son of William J. and Judith(Wilson) Cleland. After his graduationfrom Monmouth College, Illinois, with degree in 1882, he entered the lawdepartment of Washington University, from which he was graduated as in 18
Men and women of America; a biographical dictionary of contemporaries . ral medicaland army societies and social clubs. Hemarried in Athens, Tenn., Sept. 28, 1865,Sarah Maria, daughter of Judge CharlesF. Keith, and has one son. Address: Careof the Adjutant Genera) 7. S. A., Wash-ington, D. C. CLELAND, McKenzie: IMunicipal judge; born at Delhi, N. Y.,Oct. 8, 1860; son of William J. and Judith(Wilson) Cleland. After his graduationfrom Monmouth College, Illinois, with degree in 1882, he entered the lawdepartment of Washington University, from which he was graduated as in 1884. In the same year he was ad-mitted to tlie Illinois bar, and he after-ward engaged in the practice of law inCliicago. On the organization of the newMunicipal Court in Chicago in 1906, hewas elected justice and assigned to theMaxwell Street branch. He has adminis-tered the duties of the office on the basisof the view that it is the purpose of thelaw to keep men out of prison, and witha most extensive use of the probation andparole system, with remarkable results in. John L. ClemColonel U. S. Army MEN OF AMERICA. 359 the reformation of offenders. Judge Cle-land is prominent in religious work andparticularly in Bible-Class work in Chica-go. He is a member of the United Presby-terian Church. He organized a Bible Clissof men upon methods that made it popular,and was made director of adult work forthe Cook County Association, with the re-sult that thousands of young men, repre-sented in many churches, were organizedin Bible Classes, with attractive inter-class social relations. He presented thework to the International Sunday SchoolAssociation at Toronto in 1!)05, with theresult that it became an international move-ment. He was for six years president ofthe Englewood Young Mens Christian As-sociation of Chicago, is president of theNational Probation League, and of theChicago Branch of the American BibleLeague, and is a director of the MoodyBible Institute. Pvcsidence: 6439 NormalB
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