John McClurg From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 959 - 960.

TOWN OF LIMA

JOHN McCLURG, Sec. 19; P. O. Platteville; born in Salem, Mercer Co., Penn., Nov. 16, 1803. Married Miss Jane Manson, of Venango Co., Penn., and came in 1844, to Wisconsin; in May of that year, they began in a log cabin in the timber that then covered his farm of 60 acres. Mrs. McClurg died Oct. 27, 1856, leaving seven children - Henry, James, Louisa, Martin, Margaret, Albert and John; the two youngest were born in Lima, and the otheres in Pennsylvania; Louisa is now in Missouri; Henry in Washington Territory, while John is in Highland, Iowa Co.; Albert McClurg died in the Union service, and James, pressed into the rebel army, was killed by his own men. The second wife, formerly Hannah Klingensmith, died Aug. 11, 1879. Mr. McClurg now leases his farm, and will probably spend the remainder of his days here. He is a member of the Baptist Church.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.