DR. ARCHIBALD R. McKELLAR, physician and surgeon, Green Spring, was born in Elgin County, Ontario, in 1850. His father, Malcom McKellar emigrated from Scotland in 1833, and was one of the pioneer settlers of Elgin County, Ontario. Dr. A. R. McKellar was the youngest of eight children-six sons and two daughters. After receiving a common school education, he taught school in the surrounding districts for two or three years. He then further promoted his education by attending the Provincial Normal School at Toronto, passing his examinations with honor. He again resumed the profession of teaching, and taught in several rural districts until he was appointed assistant high school master of the Smith's Falls High School (one of the most efficient schools in the Province of Ontario), at a very liberal salary. He subsequently filled the position of high master in the Hawkesbury School, having an average daily attendance of 600 pupils; but in 1873, at the earnest solicitation of the people of Smith's Falls, he again assumed the position of high master of the high school in that place. Having turned his attention to the study of medicine, he entered the Ann Arbor University in the fall of 1875, and at the end of the session he attended the summer course of lectures in the College of Medicine and Surgery of Cincinnati, graduating with honor in the summer. The following fall, to thoroughly complete his medical education, he attended a session of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and was one of the six students who passed the most successful examination. He first settled in Detroit, Mich., and from there moved to Green Spring, Ohio, in July, 1877, where he has since remained, and has met with ample success in his profession. The Doctor is a member of the Seneca County, State of Ohio, and American Medical Associations; is a member of the Orange, Masonic and I. O. O. F. societies. He is nominally a member of the Presbyterian Church. While in Canada he was a stanch Reformer, and since he became an American he is equally as strong a Republican. In the year 1877 he was married to Catharine Morwood, who was born near the village of St. John, Province of Quebec. She removed to the Province of Ontario, in 1850, with her mother, three brothers and three sisters. The Doctor and his wife have two boys, both healthy and strong, their names being Archibald and Neil. Dr. McKellar has a remunerative practice, and is destined to be a permanent and prominent resident of Green Spring.


Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.706
ADAMS TOWNSHIP