BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Pages 543-544.


WILLIAM B. McCLURE, M. D., a successful physician of Martin's Ferry,
was born at Pittsburgh, July 4, 1848. He is the grandson of Judge
McClure, one of the pioneer lawyers of Allegheny county, and judge
of its court for a considerable time. This distinguished gentleman
lived to be about one hundred years old, and was hale and hearty at
that age, his death being caused by the breaking of a limb. Alexander
P. McClure, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at
Pittsburgh, and was there educated. For a long time he was engaged
in civil engineering, particularly underground surveying for drainage,
but the later years of his life were spent at McKeesport, where he was
engaged in the mercantile business. He died in 1880. His wife was
Margaret, daughter of William B. McClure, a native of Pennsylvania,
and for many years clerk of the court of Allegheny county. He was a
member of the board of commissioners which let the contract for the
building of the second court house of that county, which was burned
several years ago. Alexander McClure and wife had six children, who
are all living. Dr. McClure received his early education at McKeesport,
graduating from the school there in 1868. He then studied medicine
two years with Dr. Hall, of Pittsburgh, after which he practiced
three years as a disciple of the old school of medicine. At the end
of that time he began study under Dr. E. W. Dean, the leading
homeopathist of Braddocksfield, and subsequently engaged in the
practice of homeopathy in Allegheny county. In 1880 he entered the
Pulte medical college,  of Cincinnati and graduated in 1882. After
practicing a time in Allegheny county he came to Martin's Ferry in
1883, where he has since resided. He is one of the leading prac-
titioners in his school of the profession, and has an extensive
clientele. The doctor is active in social and public affairs, is
a member of the Presbyterian church, and of the Knights of Pythias,
the American Mechanics and the Maccabees fraternities, and in
politics is a republican. He was married in 1875, to Rebecca M.
Fleming, of Pittsburgh, and they have three children: Ray F.,
George C. and William A.