Author: McLellan, Isaac
Biography:
MCLELLAN, Isaac (1806-99: DAB)
The son of Isaac and Eliza (Hull) McLellan, he was born in Portland ME. They moved to Boston when he was 13; he attended Phillips Academy and graduated from Bowdoin in 1826. He studied law, was called to the bar, and combined legal practice in Boston with literature and journalism--in the latter, acting both as contributor and as editor. He never married. In 1851, he moved to Greenport, Long Island, and gave up law to earn a living by his pen and pursue field sports. His final verse collections, Poems of the Rod and Gun (1886) and Haunts of Wild Game (1896) earned him a reputation as "the sportsman's poet" (DAB). (Appleton; DAB) HJ
Other Names:
- Isaac McLellan, Jr.
Books written (2):
Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1830
Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1832