James T. McClure and Margaret McKean

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Husband James T. McClure ¹

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           Born: 1800 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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           Died: 1881 - West Middlesex, Shenango Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2
         Buried:  - Allegheny Cemetery

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         Father: William McClure (      -      ) 3
         Mother: 

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Wife Margaret McKean ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1811 - County Down, Ireland 2
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           Died: 1873 2
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         Father: Archibald McKean (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Sarah [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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   Other Spouse: [Unk] Stewart (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Eliza McClure ⁴

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         Spouse: [Unk] Park (      -      ) 4

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2 F Sarah McClure ⁴

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         Spouse: R. B. McLean (      -      ) 4

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3 F Rebecca H. McClure ⁴

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           Died: Bef 1914
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         Spouse: Samuel Burd (      -Aft 1914) 4

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4 M James Ellis McClure ⁴

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           Born: 7 Jul 1844 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Jane Frances Copeland (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 7 Feb 1869 5

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5 F Emma McClure ⁴

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           Died: Aft 1914
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         Spouse: Rev. D. C. Howard (      -Bef 1914) 4

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6 M Warren Fisk McClure ⁴

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           Died: Aft 1914
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General Notes: Husband - James T. McClure

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Soon after leaving school he began to learn the shoemaker's trade, and opened a shop in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was of a slender, sinewy build, and it is said that he would frequently walk from Greensburg to Pittsburgh and back in a single day, on the return trip loaded down with huge pieces of leather for use in his trade. As a young man he moved to Pittsburgh, opening a store on Borough street, later purchasing a lot at the corner of Butler and Chestnut streets, erecting thereon a workshop and a pretty, tastefully designed cottage, adorned with a front portico. His business was steady and profitable, and in his older days he retired from business and accepted an appointment as tax collector of Pittsburgh, later being commissioned sewer inspector of the city. That he did not retire with a fortune of enviable proportions was due to his tendency to allow his kindly feelings to influence his better judgment, for by the endorsement of a note for about $90,000, which the debtor failed to meet, he lost all of his available goods, his property being sold at a great sacrifice to obtain funds to cancel his rashly incurred obligation. Nor was he alone in his disaster, as the panic of 1873, that had stripped him of his possessions, had caught hundreds of others in its greedy maw, and bankruptcy was familiar to many, a state he barely escaped. He was a Republican in politics and was long a leader in his party councils, working ceaselessly for its advancement, with telling result. For many years he was a vestryman of St. James' Episcopal Church on Penn avenue, also being one of the founders and a charter member and vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church.
In 1874 he moved to Middlesex, Pennsylvania, living with his daughter and son-in-law until his death.

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 683.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 221.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 220.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 222.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1914), Pg 224.