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Rh The remains will be brought from Alaska to this country and interred in the Arlington cemetery at Washington, D. C. The uncertainty of ship transportation at this season of the year renders it impossible to determine at this time when the funeral services will be held.

Col. McClure served his country thirty-eight years. From the beginning to the end he was faithful and earnest. He was modest and gentle, but forceful and aggressive, when force and aggression were demanded. He was a student, a thinker; he believed in preparation in all things. He was a natural soldier. He sought to understand his duties and endeavored to do well his part. As a young officer on the frontier in 1879; as the instructor in military tactics at the University of Illinois for three years; as an officer at posts in all parts of this country; as the Judge-Advocate of the Department of Columbia for four years; as special assistant to the Judge-Advocate General in the revision and codification of the military laws of this country; as the special counsel for the Government in the prosecution of Captain Carter; as a soldier on the battlefield in both Cuba and Philippines in the Spanish-American War; as Assistant to Gen. Ainsworth, Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army in Washington; as Colonel of the 30th U. S. Infantry at San Francisco, and finally as the commandant of the military posts in the territory of Alaska, he was always earnest, patriotic, efficient.

Though stricken down in the prime of life, with his work only partially finished, Col. McClure has left a record which is a credit and an honor to the county and the State of his birth."

He was buried in Arlington Dec. 8th, 1913, where the officers and men of his regiment, as a token of love and esteem, erected a monument to his memory.

Author, "The Opinions of the Judge-Advocate," a standard work.

His son, Lieut. Charles Walker McClure, of the 7th U. S. Infantry, was born July 23rd, 1883, married April 17,