A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . rIns innumerable good qualities. While county treas-urer he performed his duties faithfully, was always tobe found at his post, and received the universal appro-bation of the residents of Whitley County for his care-ful and correct jierfonnance of the duties of the mostres])onsible office in their power to bestow. fcLALLEN, ELISHA LYMAN, banker, of Co-lumbia City, was born February 2, 1836, atTrumansburg, Tompkins County, New York. Hisfathe
A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . rIns innumerable good qualities. While county treas-urer he performed his duties faithfully, was always tobe found at his post, and received the universal appro-bation of the residents of Whitley County for his care-ful and correct jierfonnance of the duties of the mostres])onsible office in their power to bestow. fcLALLEN, ELISHA LYMAN, banker, of Co-lumbia City, was born February 2, 1836, atTrumansburg, Tompkins County, New York. Hisfather, Henry McLallen, was of Scotch extrac-tion. His mother, Frances M. Lyman, was of En-glish descent, the genealogy of her family being tracedto Richard Lyman, who was born at High Ongar, nearLondon, England, in 1580, removed thence to the UnitedStates, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, in and Frances M. (Lyman) McLallen were parentsof twelve children, only four of whom attained ma-jority. Three still survive: one daughter, Mrs. Mar-garet A. Clugston, a resident of Larwill, Whitley County,Indiana; Henry McLallen, of the firm of F. Mc-. 12th niii.\ REPKESENTATHE MEN OF INDIANA. 53 Lallen & Co., bankers, of Columliia City, whose biogra-phy appears in this work; and E. L. McLallen, the sub-ject of this sketch. In 1844 the family removed fromNew York to Northern Indiana, and settled in WhitleyCounty on a farm. The sons received only a limitedschool education, but had the advantages of a large li-brary at home, and instruction from their mother; McLallen only attending school two terms in Indi-ana, and, after eighteen years of age, two terms in Massa-chusetts. During the building of the Fort Wayne and Chi-cago Railroad he was one of the civil engineer corps,and in 1857, in partnership with D. B. Clugston, boughtout the mercantile business which his father had con-ducted at Larwill since 1852, and continued in that part-nership sixteen years. In April, 1S74, afte
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