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Cliambersburg, 1862-67. He was chairman of the Republican state central committee in 1860, a state senator and chairman of the committee on military affairs in 1861, and was commissioned assistant adjutant-general of the United States by President Lincoln in 1862, and organized the draft in Pennsylvania. With assistance of two clerks he had all matters adjusted and seventeen regiments in the field within two months. He was a delegate at large from Pennsylvania to the Republican national convention at Baltimore, June 7, 1864, and was a representative in the state legislature in 1864. His property at Cham- bersburg was destroyed by McCausland's brig- ade in 1864. He settled in Philadelphia and practised law there, 1868-75, and in the latter year established with Frank McLaughlin The Times at Philadelphia, of which he was manager and editor-in-chief until March, 1901, when he retired. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Chicago, May 20, 1868, and chairman of the delegation ; chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation to the Liberal Re- publican national convention at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1, 1872, that nominated Horace Greeley for the presidency, and of the Liberal Republican state committee in 1872. He served a third term in the Pennsylvania senate in 1872 and was de- feated for the office of mayor of Philadelphia by Mayor Stokley in 1874. He received the degree of LL.D. from Washington and Lee university in 1887. He was married, Feb. 10, 1852, to Matilda S., daughter of James Gray of Mifflintown, and on March 19, 1879, to Cora M., daughter of Ed- ward Gratz of Philadelphia. He is the author of : Three Thousand Miles through the Rocky Moun- tains (1869); The South (1886); Lincoln and Men of War Times (1892); Our Presidents and How We Make Them (1900); To the Pacific and Mexico (1901); Life of William McKinley (1901).

ricCLURE, James Gore King, educator, was born in Albany, N.Y., Nov. 24, 1848; son of Archibald and Susan Tracy (Rice) McClure and grandson of Archibald and Elizabeth (Craigmiles) McClure. His first ancestor in America on his mother's side, Edmund Rice, was one of the founders of Marlborough and Sudbury, Mass., in 1638. James was graduated from the Albany, N.Y., academy, 1865 ; from Phillips-Andover academy, 1866 ; from Yale, A.B., 1870, and from Princeton Theological seminary, 1873. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1874 and was pastor of the New Scotland, N.Y., Presbyte- rian church, 1874-79. He was married, Nov. 19, 1879, to Annie P., daughter of the Hon. Na- than F. Dixon of Westerly, R. I. He travelled in Europe, Palestine, Greece and Egypt, 1880-81 ; was installed as pastor of the Lake Forest, 111., Presbyterian church, 1881, and was elected pres-

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ident of Lake Forest university in 1897. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Lake Forest university in 1888. He is the author of : History of Neto Scotland Presbyterian Church (1876); Possibilities (1896); The Man Wlio Wanted to Help ( 1897) ; Environment (1899) ; The Great Appeal (1899).

ricCLURQ, Alexander Caldwell, publisher^ was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 9, 1832 ; son of Alexander and Sarah (Trevor) McClurg; grandson of Joseph and Ann (Caldwell) McClurg and of Samuel and Sarah (Bond) Trevor. Joseph McClurg came to Pittsburg, Pa., from Ireland in 1798 with his son Alexander, born in Coleraine, Ireland, in 1786, and his wife, Sarah Trev- or, born in Upton, England, in 1790. Alexander Caldwell McClurg was gra- duated from Miami university, A. B., 1853, A.M., 1856. He studied law one year in Pitts- burg, was a clerk in the employ of S. C. Griggs & Co., booksellers, Chicago, 111., 1859-62, and in August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Co. H, 88th Illinois volunteers, and was almost immediately unanimously promoted cap- tain of the company. In 1862 he was detailed at Nashville as judge advocate of a general court- martial. In May, 1863, General McCook tendered him a position on his staff, and when General Mc- Cook was relieved from command Captain Mc- Clurg was made assistant adjutant-general of General Baird's division and held this position through the battles of Chattanooga and Mission- ary Ridge, November, 1863. On April 12, 1864, he was made adjutant-general of the 14th army corps. Gen. John M. Palmer, and when Gen. Jefferson C. Davis succeeded to the command of the 14th army corps, he was promoted lieutenant- colonel and chief of staff of tlie corps. He partic- ipated in the battles of Perryville, Stone's River, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Mis- sionary Ridge, Ringgold Gap, Tunnel Hill, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Adairsville, New Hope church. Pine Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain and the other battles around Atlanta, and in Sherman's march to the sea and through the Carolinas. He was bre vetted colonel and brigadier-general, March 13, 1865. He was a partner in the book publishing firm of S. C. Griggs & Co., 1865-72, which became Jansen, McClurg & Co. in 1872, and A. C. McClurg & Co. in 1886. On Feb. 12,