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Name
  
John MacLean


Died
  
August 12, 1939, Greenville, Ohio, United States

Education
  
National Normal University

Books
  
An Historical Account o, A History of the Clan MacLean, Shakers of Ohio: Fugitive P, A History of the Clan MacLean, The Mound Builders: Being an

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John Patterson MacLean (March 12, 1848 – August 12, 1939) was an American Universalist minister and archaeologist and historian. While at Ohio State University he became a historian of the Shakers.

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Biography

He was born on March 12, 1848 in Franklin, Ohio.

In 1864 at age sixteen he entered the National Normal University in Lebanon, Ohio. In 1867 he started at the Theological School of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, and he qualified for the ministry in 1869.

In 1887 he went to the Island of Mull in Scotland to collect material for his "History of the Macleans."

He received his Ph.D. in 1894.

He died on August 12, 1939 in Greenville, Ohio and was buried in Franklin, Ohio.

Publications

Scotland
  • A history of the clan MacLean from its first settlement at Duard Castle (1889)
  • Renaissance of the clan MacLean (1913)
  • An Historical Account of The Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America Prior to the Peace of 1783
    • Religion
  • A sketch of the life and labors of Richard McNemar (1905)
    • Shakers
  • A concise history of the United Society of Believers called Shakers (1893)
  • Shakers of Ohio: fugitive papers concerning the Shakers of Ohio, with unpublished manuscripts (1907)
  • A Bibliography of Shaker Literature
    • Archaeology
  • A Manual of the Antiquity of Man (1877)
  • The Mound Builders (1879)
  • Mastodon, Mammoth and Man (1880)
  • An historical, archaeological and geological examination of Fingal's Cave in the island of Staffa (1890)
  • The Archaeological Collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society (1901)
  • A Critical Examination of the Evidences Adduced to Establish the Theory of the Norse Discovery

    • References

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