Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887,
Grant Co.

EZRA K. McCLURE was born in Grant County, Ky., August 24, 1836, and is the
second son born to John A. and Eunice (Fish) McClure, natives of Boone
County, Ky., and New York, respectively.  John A. McClure, who was born
in 1798, was magistrate under the old constitution for many years; he died
in 1850.  His father, Nathaniel McClure, was born either on the waters of
the Susquehanna, when his father emigrated from Scotland, or in Botetourt
County, Va., and was among the earliest settlers in Boone County, Ky.,
where he settled at Versailles.  Mrs. Eunice McClure was a daughter of
William Fish, who emigrated from New York to Pendleton County, Ky.  Ezra
K. McClure was reared on the farm, and educated at the Crittenden Union
College.  In 1863 he volunteered in Gen. Churchill's Arkansas Brigade,
remained out one year, and left as second lieutenant.  He then returned
to Grant County, and engaged in the manufacture of plug tobacco until
1870, when he commenced farming and buying tobacco; he left the farm in
1872, devoting his entire attention to buying and selling tobacco.  He
sells at Cincinnati, and handles from 160,000 to 400,000 pounds.  The
tobacco factory is a frame building 100 x 40 feet with an L 40 x 25 feet.
July 26, 1859, Mr. McClure married Miss Nannie Dickerson, a native of
Bourbon County, Ky.  Three children have been born to them: Ezra K.,
born November 25, 1862; Nathaniel F., born July 22, 1865, and Lucian D.,
born October 25, 1870.  Nathaniel graduated in June, 1887, at United
States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. twenty-third in a class of
sixty-five, and is second lieutenant with the Fourth United States
Cavalry at Fort McDowell, Arizona Territory.  Mr. McClure is a Royal
Arch Mason.

McClure Fish Dickerson
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Boone-KY Pendleton-KY Bourbon-KY Botetourt-VA NY Scotland

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