William H. McClure

MCCLURE, WESSON, HOLMES

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Date: 5/13/2009 at 14:56:02

1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF
SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA
W. S. DUNBAR & CO., PUBLISHERS
113 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO

page 824-825

WILLIAM H. McCLURE, of the firm
of Cousins & McClure, proprietors
of the Audubon County Republican,
is a native of the State of Illinois, and was
born in Dundee, November 15, 1859. He is
the oldest living son of William and Mana
(Wesson) McClure. William McClure, the
father of William H., was a stone and brick
mason in early life, but in later years turned
his attention to farming. He was born in
the State of Maine, and removed to Illinois,
where he married and settled upon a farm.
In 1868 he took his family to Cedar County,
Iowa, and settled on a farm, remaining there
several years. He then moved to the town
of Wyoming, Jones County, arid still resides
there. William McClure passed his youth
in Cedar and Jones counties, receiving his
education principally in the public schools of
Wyoming. At the age of sixteen years he
entered the printing office of the Wyoming
Journal, and there learned the printer's trade.
B e remained in the Journal office seven years
from the time of entering, and was then
appointed postmaster, serving from May,
1883, until 1885, at Wyoming, Iowa. In the
month of December, 1885, Mr. McClure
came to Audubon County, and was employed
on the Audubon County Republican. In
April, 1887, he purchased the interest held
by S. A. Foster, the firm being at that time
Cousins & Foster. Mr. Foster retired from the
business, and the firm name was changed to
Cousins & McClure. Mr. McClure is a
practical printer, and a racy writer. He was
married to Miss Kate Holmes, of Wyoming,
Iowa, a daughter of William Holmes, Esq.
Mr. and Mrs. McClure have had born to them
four children -- Scott, Don, Mary and Edgar.