WM. W. MCCLURE
William W. McClure made a settlement on section 4, in 1860.
William W. McClure resides on section 4, where he settled in 1860, purchasing a fine farm on this section. Upon this place, at that time, was a log house, and ten acres broken. Mr. McClure now has a rich farm with good improvements. He was born in Ohio, in 1833, and remained there until 1859. In that year he started for Pike's Peak, but turned back on learning that the reports of finding gold had proved false, and went to Guthrie county, Iowa. In the spring of 1860 he came to Cass county. In 1863 he again started for Pike's Peak and after arriving there remained one year. He was married to Jennie McCaferty, who was born in Ohio, in 1833. Mr. and Mrs. McClure have four children--Allison, Mary, Willie and Charlie. Alva and Elva (twins) died at the respective ages of eleven and thirteen months.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 794.
