Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Warren County. JOHN H. McELWAIN, Warren County, as born in 1835, and is a native of this county. He is a son of Alexander and Malinda (Feland) McElwain, of Irish descent. He is a bachelor, and has thus far disregarded the Scriptural injunction, to go out and "multiply and fill the earth." He lives with his brother on the farm, in which he owns an interest. He was reared on the farm, and educated in the schools of the neighborhood. Politically Mr. McElwain is a Democrat of the Jeffersonial school. McElwain Feland = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/warren/mcelwain.jh.txt