• appointed Major of the Militia of the County of Ross.1668, p 541

• ...Miss Elizabeth McLene, of Columbus, a daughter of General Jeremiah McLene, who was at one time secretary of State, and subsequently a member of congress from Columbus.1639

• a Representative from Ohio; born in Cumberland County, Pa., in 1767; attended the common schools; served in the Revolutionary War as major general of militia; moved to Ohio and settled in Chillicothe, Ross County; member of the State house of representatives in 1807 and 1808; secretary of state of Ohio 1808-1831; moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1816; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); unsuccessful for reelection in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress; died in Washington, D.C., March 19, 1837; interment in Congressional Cemetery.2434

• Of Ross, and later of Franklin county, was not only one of the leading democrats but one of the leading public men of the state during the first thirty years of its history. He entered public life in 1807 as a member of the house of the sixth general assembly, representing Ross, Franklin and Highland. He served a single term. He was active in the militia organization and became a major general.
He served as secretary of state for twenty-three years consecutively, having been elected by the legislature in 1808, and reelected seven times in succession, to terms of three years each. In 1832 he was elected to the twenty third congress from the eighth district comprising Franklin, Madison, Pickaway, Delaware and Marion counties, and was reelected from the same district to the twenty-fourth congress in 1834. He was an elector on the Jackson ticket in 1832.
General McLene was born in Pennsylvania in 1767. In early life he emigrated to the territory of Tennessee, where, as a boy, he became acquainted with and warmly attached to General Andrew Jackson. From Tennessee he came to Ohio. He died at Washington, D. C., March 19, 1837, from a cold contracted while attending the inauguration of President Martin Van Buren.2437

• McLene, Jeremiah, statesman, born in 1767; died in Washington, D. C., 19 March, 1837. He received a common-school education, served in the Revolutionary army, and in 1790 settled in Chillicothe, Ohio, afterward removing to Columbus in 1816. He was secretary of Ohio from 1808 till 1831, and was elected to congress as a Democrat, serving from 2 December, 1833, till 3 March, 1837.2435

• At his lodgings in this city on the 19th instant, the Hon. Jeremiah McLene, late a member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the state of Ohio in the 24th Congress. His funeral will take place this day (Tuesday) from his lodgings at Mrs. Myers, Pennsylvania Avenue, at 11 o’clock a.m. The members of the two Houses of Congress now in the city, the President of the United States (Van Buren), Heads of Departments, foreign ministers, the Rev. Clergy, the physicians who attended the deceased, officers of the Army and Navy, strangers and citizens, are respectfully invited to attend his funeral.2438

• Gen. Jeremiah McLene died at Washington City on the 19th of March, 1837, aged 70 years. His sickness dated from his attendance at the inauguration of Martin Van Buren, on the 4th of that month. He had just completed his second term in Congress. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and in early life emigrated from that State to the then Territory of Tennessee, where he was an intimate companion of General Andrew Jackson, for whom he always entertained a great partiality. He was subsequently a pioneer to the north-western Territory. In the early part of the present century, he settled in the infant town of Chillicothe, and was, while there, Sheriff of Ross County. Then, there and at Columbus together, he served twenty-one years in succession as Secretary of State, and was a very popular State officer.
He was a surveyor and fond of his compass and the business — was for a number of years county surveyor for Franklin county, and also city surveyor of Columbus. He was a man of remarkable plainness and familiarity of manners and character. Although perfectly at ease in any company, he enjoyed himself equally as well in the society of the poorest laborers as with the highest dignitaries. He was emphatically the poor man’s friend — always ready to accommodate with the use of his name or otherwise, and paid more security debts, and with less murmuring, than any one man of his time. As a characteristic of his plainness and economy, when on his dying bed, he called two of his friends to him and gave directions concerning his effects, and his death and burial. “Let my funeral,” said he, “be conducted with the strictest economy.”2439