[1] He and Martha McLeod McLane pioneered a 307-or-320-acre (124 or 129 ha) homestead on Mud Bay.
Place names such as McLane Creek are named for him, as is McLane Elementary School in the Olympia School District, on a hill above and east of Mud Bay, and the McLane Grange in Delphi Valley, to whom he donated land.
[2][3] McLane originally left Pennsylvania in 1852 and made his way to Washington Territory by ox-drawn wagon.
Once there, he homesteaded at Bush Prairie (founded by pioneer George Bush, now in Tumwater), and later moved to the Mud Bay homestead.
[4]: 617 McLane died in Thurston County in 1906 after living in his home for over 50 years.