(13 April 1888-28 June 1983), nurse. (Katie Gill McLellan) Born on the South Branch. Parents: Christopher McLellan and his wife Catherine McIntosh. She studied at Notre Dame Academy, Pointe-aux-Trembles, Que. After receiving her nursing diploma in 1917 at Hudson, New York, she did post graduate work in nursing, also in New York state. In W W I she served as a nurse in Engand and France. For her war work she received a Red Cross Service Medal from the American Red Cross. She became, in 1920, supervisor of a School of Nursing, at Hudson, N. Y. Her Glengarry News obituary mentions that this was “where many local girls trained as nurses.” Harkness notes that her cousin John A. Chisholm, the former mayor of Cornwall, died (1928) at the Hudson City Hospital, where she was superintendent of nurses. She went to Cornwall in 1929 at the request of the Hotel Dieu Sisters (the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph) to establish a school of nursing at the Hotel Dieu Hospital; and was nursing superintendent there. She returned to Hudson in 1935. In 1945 she retired from nursing and went to live at her old home on the South Branch. Afterwards, she lived at Williamstown, and was one of the leaders in the project of building the cenotaph at Williamstown, constructed 1953. She died at the Hotel Dieu Hospital, Cornwall. Roman Catholic. She was buried at St. Mary’s cemetery, Williamstown. She never married. She was one of the people involved in the building of the St. Lawrence Sanatorium, the “San.” Mr & Mrs Angus McLellan of the South Branch (the parents of Donald McLellan) were probably her grandparents.

Obituary Glengarry News (undated clipping, copy in present author’s files) * Harkness 430 * Sister Dolores Kane, Caring People Helping People: the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph of Cornwall (1996) 23 * Fraser, Gravestones, I, 24 (her parents?) * Sue Harrington, GN 7 Nov. 2001 p. 3