From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 658-659.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


PORTER C. McLANE

Porter C. McLane, M.D., prominent in the profession of medicine in 
Hancock county, is a son of Dr. John McLane, who was born in 
Allegheny county, Penn., in 1772.  The latter was educated at the 
Cannonsburgh academy, and was one of the founders of the Philo 
literary society, in 1797.  Experiencing a call to the ministry, he 
was licensed by the Presbytery of Ohio, August 28, 1799, and in the 
following year he received calls from Presbyterian churches at Upper 
Buffalo, Bull Creek, Middlesex, and Montours, the latter of which he 
accepted.  He was ordained and installed as pastor August 27, 1800, 
and remained with that charge until December, 1808.  When war was 
declared in 1812, he went into the service as surgeon, having studied 
that profession during his course at Cannonsburgh, and after the 
close of the war he settled at Florence, Penn., and devoted himself 
to the practice of medicine.  In a few years he removed to Fairview, 
W.Va., and thence a few years later to Wellsville, Ohio, where he 
died in July, 1827.  He was twice married, and by the first union had 
three sons and two daughters, of whom one son survives, at the age of 
seventy-one years.  The second marriage was to Celia Cullen, and 
three children by her survive, two daughters, one living in Missouri, 
the other in Iowa, and the oldest son, P. C. McLane, the subject of 
this mention.  He was born at Fairview, August 28, 1823.  After his 
father's death he returned with his mother to Fairview, where she 
died in 1836.  In youth he chose medicine as his profession, and 
began the study with Dr. Norman K. McKenzie, continuing it with Drs. 
Patterson and McKenzie.  After attending lectures at the Ohio Medical 
college at Cincinnati, in 1848-9, he began practicing at Fairview, 
and remained there until 1852, when he removed to California.  He was 
there engaged in his profession until March, 1855, when he came 
eastward, and after traveling in the western states, settled at 
Comanche, Iowa, in 1857.  In May, 1862, he entered the service of the 
government at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., and remained until October, 
1865, having charge of the post hospital for a year or more, and 
having the care of the sick and wounded after the close of the war.  
Then, after a year spent with friends in the east, he entered the 
profession in Hancock county, locating himself at New Cumberland.  In 
1859 Dr. McLane was married to Miss E. M. Hoyt, of New Haven, Conn., 
who died in January, 1864.  December 14, 1870, he was married to Mary 
E., daughter of Hon. D. H. Wortley, formerly a member of the Ohio 
senate, and a resident of Coshocton, Ohio.  Four children were born 
to this union:  Bertha E., Celia A.; Helen F., who died in 1878, and 
Kenneth.  The doctor and wife are members of the Presbyterian church, 
of which he has been an elder many years.
      
   
(Linda Fluharty)