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Mcclure, Samuel Grant

journalist, was born Aug. 9, 1863, in Wayne county, Ohio. For six years he was the editorial writer on the Cleveland Leader; and since 1896 has been editor-in-chief and general manager of the Ohio State Journal of Columbus.

MCCLURG, ALEXANDER CALD- WELL, soldier, publisher, was born about 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa. He left the house of S. C. Griggs and Co., booksellers of Chicago, to enter the national army as a private in 1862; was brevetted colonel and brigadier-general. After the war he returned to the book business in Chicago, becoming a partner in the firm of Jansen, McClurg and Co.; and the house is now widely known under the name of A. C. McClurg and Co., booksellers and publishers.