McLellans house

McLellans house

"William H. McLellan House, High Street, [built] c. 1840. In the early 20th century used by descendants for a summer home, then became a grade school, torn down for the Governor Anderson School in 1935." --Earle Shettleworth, 2011 William H. McLellan Sr. (1832-1912), was an attorney in Belfast, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Maine in 1876 and Maine State Attorney General in 1879. He ran as a member of the Democratic Party in 1879 for a seat in U. S. Congress. He was born in 1832 in Skowhegan, Maine, the son of William H. Mclellan (1803-1879) and Roxana Woodside (1806-1874. He married Angeline Nickels (1840-1906), they had five children. William H. McLellan died on March 25, 1912. He is buried in Grove Cemetery in Belfast. In July 1914, understanding the need for two primary schools, O. E. Frost, E. A. Sherman and R.L. Cooper formed a partnership and purchased the vine-covered McLellan estate on High Street between John Street and Field Streets, making it available to the city as a new North Primary School beginning in 1915. The Governor Hugh J. Anderson School was built in 1935 to replace the rapidly deteriorating adjacent McLellan School. At the time, E. R. A. (Federal Emergency Relief Appropriations Act) funds paid 85 of Belfast's unemployed to finish the badly needed Governor Anderson School and demolish the old McLellan School.