John Patterson MacLean
John Patterson MacLean was an American Universalist minister and archaeologist and historian. While at Ohio State University he became a historian of the Shakers.Biography
He was born on March 12, 1848 in Franklin, Ohio.
In 1864 at age sixteen he entered the National Normal University in Lebanon, Ohio. In 1867 he started at the Theological School of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, and he qualified for the ministry in 1869.
In 1887 he went to the Island of Mull in Scotland to collect material for his "History of the Macleans."
He received his Ph.D. in 1894.
He died on August 12, 1939 in Greenville, Ohio and was buried in Franklin, Ohio.Publications
;Scotland
;Religion
;Shakers
- A concise history of the United Society of Believers called Shakers
- Shakers of Ohio: fugitive papers concerning the Shakers of Ohio, with unpublished manuscripts
- A Bibliography of Shaker Literature
;Archaeology
