Mcclure, Addison S
soldier, lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1839, in Wooster, Ohio. He edited the Wooster Republican newspaper from 1870 to 1880. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-seventh congress; and was re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
MCCLURE, ALEXANDER KELLY, journalist, author, was born Jan. 9, 1828, in Sherman's Valley, Pa. In 1846 he began the publication of the Sentinel, a whig journal of Mifflin, Pa. In 1850 he sold that publication and purchased an interest in the Chambersburg Repository, which he made one of the most noted antisiavery journals in the state. In 1855 he was a member of the convention that organized the republican party, and in the following year was a delegate to the national convention that nominated Fremont for the presidency.
In 1856 he sold the Repository, and was shortly afterward admitted to the bar.
In 1857-58 he was chosen to the Pennsylvania state legislature, and in 1859 to the senate. In 1868 he settled in Philadelphia, and the following year established the Times, a daily newspaper, and since its foundation he has been its editor-in-chief. He is the author of Three Thousand Miles Through the Rocky Mountains; The South; and other works.
MCCLURE, ALEXANDER WILSON, clergyman, author, was born May 8, 1808, in Boston, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Boston, among whose writings are, Lectures on Ultra Universalism; and Life of Jonn Cotton. He died Sept. 20, 1865, in Canonsburg, Pa.