Joseph McLean
Joseph McLean, farmer, Washington, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, June 21. 1803, and came to Ohio in 1806, locating in Ross County with the family, where they remained till February, 1810, when they came to this county and township, where he has since lived, save three years, when he served an apprenticeship with a cabinet-maker. He was married, March 5, 1829, to Lucinda Shobe, who has borne him five sons and three daughters. Four of the sons have passed to a better land.
Mr. McLean was a cabinet-maker until seventeen years after his marriage, when he removed to his farm. He has served as fund commissioner, infirmary director, township trustee, clerk, and treasurer. His official career was honest, upright, aud public-spirited. He was reared in the Presbyterian faith, being a member of that denomination until 1849, when he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which he has since been associated. He was a member of the Sons of Temperance during the existence of that organization. He is one of Fayette's pioneers, and has many warm friends and a respected family. Mr. McLean has contributed largely to this work, for which he will be held in grateful remembrance by the compilers and patrons.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County