in the regular Army. Resigned on close of hostilities in the Philippines.
- (b). James Barrett McClure was floor clerk (1912) of the United States Senate
4. Joseph, was ordained an Elder in the Brandywine Manor Church, 1830.
6. John McClure, b. in Chester County July 26, 1791; m., first, Feb. 6, 1816, Elizabeth Mackelduff, of Honeybrook. She died August 22, 1822. Two sons.
- (1). Dr. Joseph M. McClure, ordained an Elder in the Nantmeal Presbyterian Church, Chester County, 1870. He died some years ago, leaving a widow and two daughters, viz: Margaret, living at Lyndell, Chester County, and Mrs. Wm. Pemrock, Atlantic City, N. J.
- (2). James McClure.
He married, second, January 13, 1824, Elizabeth Mackelduff, a first cousin of his first wife. Three children.
- (3). Elizabeth, m. Robert Neely.
- (4). John, who married and left a daughter, Mrs. Adda B. McSparran, Peter's Creek, Lancaster County.
- (5). Samuel M., d. s.
He died Feb. 9, 1873. Elizabeth, his wife, died Dec. 15, 1867, aged seventy-three years. The address of Rev. A. Nelson Hollifield on the occasion of his death, delivered at the Fairview Presbyterian Church, Wallace, Chester Co., Feb. 13, 1873, is preserved in book form. The following is from this address:
"The McClure family, ever since its settlement in the American colonies, has been highly respectable. John, (the grandfather of the deceased) and all of his family, were persons of superior intelligence. They were well-to do in wordly possessions, industrious, honest and economical. During the period that preceded and succeeded The Declaration of Independence, they were warm and active partisans of the American cause. From conviction, they were Federalists, and espoused the principles of George
