One of the older members of the Republican Party on the floor of the House this winter will be the Hon. Freeman McClelland, M. D., of Cedar Rapids. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, November 28, 1830. He lived in Pennsylvania twenty years, Indiana five years, Colorado two years, and has been a citizen of Iowa for thirty-four years. He received his education in Kittanning and Philadelphia. During the war he served as assistant surgeon of the 16th Iowa Infantry. The hardships of the war so impaired his health that he abandoned practice at the close of the war, and became editor of the Cedar Rapids Times. He was married while a young man to Miss Mary E. Gardner. They have three children; Bertha Louise, Clyde, and Freeman, Jr. Mr. McClelland belonged to the G. A. R. and attended the Presbyterian Church. In politics he has always been a Republican. The only office he has ever before held was that of visitor to the hospitals for the insane, which place he held for six years. Mr. McClelland died in February 13, 1896, and Mr. David Brant was elected to fill the vacancy created by the death of Representative McClelland.