Prospecting on Leases Near Porto Rico and Duenweg.
A company of Carthage men, composing the Mutual Mining and Prospecting Co., made a good strike in its second drill hole on twenty acre lease which it holds on the Tell land at the four corners near Porto Rico. A fifteen foot face of jack and lead was struck at 175 feet.
Other drill holes are to be put down. This company also has an 18 acre lease near Duenweg which it has begun to prospect. The company is composed of J.E. Bell, E.S. Williams, J.P. Leggett, C.B. Platt, M.J. McClurg, Robt. Stickney, E.B. Jacobs, A.L. Olive, C.J. Smith, W.S. Burch, H.A. Wolcott and a Montana gentleman who is a friend of one of the resident members of the company. (Mornin' Mail)
CARTHAGE WEEKLY BANNER
JANUARY 22, 1885
Dr. McClurg has completed a remarkably fine outfit of dental insturments by the addition of a nitrous oxide gasometer. It is a reservoir and condenser for 'laughing gas' and the condenser contains in a space not larger than a half gallon measure one hundred gallons of gas. The gas is administered to the patient through a rubber tube. As laughing gas is considered the safest and most effective anesthetic it will be welcome agent in depriving of its terrors the painful operation of tooth-pulling.
AT RIGHT: Profiled in the August 13, 1891 edition of the Carthage Weekly Press newspaper as a Light Guard member.
Marshal J. McClurg, DDS, an early day Carthage, Missouri dentist passed away at his home at 1116 South Maple St of complications of stomach cancer and heart disease. He was 75 years old. For many years, his business was in the upper floors of the Caffee Drug Store, northwest corner of the square on 3rd & Main Streets. His wife Effie preceded him in death in 1932.
He was the son of Joseph W. and Mary (Johnson) McClurg
NOTE: The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
________________________________________________
Information below about Dr. McClurg's father was provided courtesy of Judith Terry
Father of Dr. Marshall McClurg was Governor of Missouri Joseph Washington McClurg, b. in Missouri. (Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005.
Source: Wikipedia/Joseph W McClurg
Joseph Washington McClurg (February 22, 1818 – December 2, 1900) was a Governor of Missouri in the decade following the American Civil War. His stepfather was William Murphy.
Born near St. Louis, Missouri, McClurg was orphaned at seven and raised by grandparents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his grandfather owned the city's first iron foundry.
Educated at Xenia Academy and Oxford College in Ohio, he taught school briefly in Louisiana and Mississippi in the 1830's before returning to St. Louis to serve as deputy for his uncle, Sheriff Marshall Brotherton.
At 19, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Texas, although he never practiced. In 1841, he returned to Missouri to marry Mary Catherine Johnson. He was involved in lead mining and merchandising and created McClurg's Old Salt Road through rural Missouri to assure a supply of salt for his customers.
In 1844, he would operate a store in Hazelwood (the first county seat of Webster County), Missouri with his stepfather.
In 1850, McClurg left Missouri for the gold rush in California, where he opened a miner's store in Georgetown (12 miles from Sutton's Mill). After two years, he returned to Missouri, this time to Linn Creek (now under the Lake of the Ozarks), where he established a thriving business supplying settlers and merchants in Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and the Indian Territory.
An avid abolitionist, he was a delegate to the historic Gamble Convention in March 1861, in which Missouri agreed to stay in the Union. During the Civil War, McClurg was a colonel in the Missouri Volunteers until elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1862, 1864 and 1866.
He resigned his last term to run for Missouri governor as a Radical Republican, a party against the re-enfranchisement of ex-Confederates. He served a two year term and with Radical Republicanism falling from favor, lost his bid for re-election.
In 1886, he accompanied his son, Joseph, and his daughter, Fannie along with her six children, to homestead in the Dakota Territory. It was an entrepreneurial venture made promising on the basis of several years of mild weather; however, the winter of 1886-87 was a famously cruel one that convinced the family to return to Missouri.
He was appointed Registrar of Lands at Springfield before returning to Lebanon, Missouri, where he died in 1900."
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CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1933
DR. M. J. McCLURG IS DEAD
END COMES DURING THE NIGHT AT HOME ON MAPLE STREET
Veteran Dentist Had Lived Here More Than 50 Years - Father Early Day Governor of Missouri
Dr. Marshall J. M. McClurg, 75, veteran Carthage dentist, was found dead early this morning in his bed at his home, 1116 South Maple street, by a daughter, Mrs. Mary Fletcher.
Dr. McClurg had been in ill health the last year and for the last month had been confined to his bed. He was a patient for a few days at McCune-Brooks hospital while x-ray pictures were being made and was later moved to his home on South Maple street. His condition had been gradually growing weaker and Sunday a decided change was noted. He apparently died while sleeping last night.
Born in Linn Creek, MO., January 21, 1858, Dr. McClurg attended the schools there and after deciding to take up the profession of dentistry enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania Dental College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated.
Returning to Missouri he located at Lebanon, practicing within 100 miles of Lebanon, making the rounds on horseback with his dental equipment carried in saddlebags. He had a regular schedule and folks of the countryside would assemble at the various towns on his route to greet him and have their teeth attended to.
Practiced Here about 50 Years
The veteran dentist was first in interested in Carthage by the late Maj. A. F. Lewis, a friend of the family of long standing. He arrived here in April 1881 and continued his practice here until December 9, 1926 when he retired from active service. Carthage dentists honored their "dean" at a banquet soon after his retirement.
Dr. McClurg was a son of Joseph W. McClurg, governor of Missouri in 1869 and 1871. He was nominated for governor of Missouri by the Republican party, resigning his seat in congress, to which he had been elected by his district in 1862. His administration was devoted to the struggle to repair the ravages of war. Governor McClurg not only urged upon the legislature the passage of laws prohibiting the manufacture of intoxicants but was also an advocate of woman suffrage. He died at the home of a daughter near Lebanon in 1900, at the age of 83. A simple granite shaft, erected by the state of Missouri, marks his last retiring place in the Lebanon Cemetery.
Dr. McClurg, in addition to practice of his profession in his earlier days here was active in the famous old Carthage Light Guard which won fame as a crack military organization. For many years he was a member and officer of the school board. He also was associated with many business enterprises. He served as secretary of the Leggett and Platt Spring Bed Manufacturing Company from 1905 until the first of this year when he requested that he be relieved from that duty on account of his health. While he was never active in the management of the business he was closely affiliated with the firm.
Y.M.C.A. and Church Leader
He was a charter member of the Carthage Y.M.C.A. and was a member of the board of trustees at the time of his death. He also was a member of the First Presbyterian church here for about 50 years. He served as deacon of the church about 42 years and a trustee four years. He was an unusually faithful member, never missing a Sunday service when he was physically able to be present.
Mrs. McClurg passed away December 11, 1932 in Carthage. She was ill for sometime before her death.
Surviving are two daughter, Miss Jean McClurg of the home and Mrs. Mary Fletcher of Golden, Colorado; two sisters, Mrs. Tom Monroe of Muskogee, Oklahoma and Mrs. Charles Draper of Lebanon; two brothers, Joe McClurg of Lebanon and Dr. J. A. McClurg of Kansas City, and a grandson, Richard McClurg Fletcher. Dr. McClurg was the youngest of his family.
Funeral services will be held Monday, at the hour and the place to be determined later. Dr. Walter F. Bradley, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will be in charge, assisted by Dr. G. F. Harbour. Burial will be in Park Cemetery.
Added by NJBrewer
A company of Carthage men, composing the Mutual Mining and Prospecting Co., made a good strike in its second drill hole on twenty acre lease which it holds on the Tell land at the four corners near Porto Rico. A fifteen foot face of jack and lead was struck at 175 feet.
Other drill holes are to be put down. This company also has an 18 acre lease near Duenweg which it has begun to prospect. The company is composed of J.E. Bell, E.S. Williams, J.P. Leggett, C.B. Platt, M.J. McClurg, Robt. Stickney, E.B. Jacobs, A.L. Olive, C.J. Smith, W.S. Burch, H.A. Wolcott and a Montana gentleman who is a friend of one of the resident members of the company. (Mornin' Mail)
CARTHAGE WEEKLY BANNER
JANUARY 22, 1885
Dr. McClurg has completed a remarkably fine outfit of dental insturments by the addition of a nitrous oxide gasometer. It is a reservoir and condenser for 'laughing gas' and the condenser contains in a space not larger than a half gallon measure one hundred gallons of gas. The gas is administered to the patient through a rubber tube. As laughing gas is considered the safest and most effective anesthetic it will be welcome agent in depriving of its terrors the painful operation of tooth-pulling.
AT RIGHT: Profiled in the August 13, 1891 edition of the Carthage Weekly Press newspaper as a Light Guard member.
Marshal J. McClurg, DDS, an early day Carthage, Missouri dentist passed away at his home at 1116 South Maple St of complications of stomach cancer and heart disease. He was 75 years old. For many years, his business was in the upper floors of the Caffee Drug Store, northwest corner of the square on 3rd & Main Streets. His wife Effie preceded him in death in 1932.
He was the son of Joseph W. and Mary (Johnson) McClurg
NOTE: The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
________________________________________________
Information below about Dr. McClurg's father was provided courtesy of Judith Terry
Father of Dr. Marshall McClurg was Governor of Missouri Joseph Washington McClurg, b. in Missouri. (Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005.
Source: Wikipedia/Joseph W McClurg
Joseph Washington McClurg (February 22, 1818 – December 2, 1900) was a Governor of Missouri in the decade following the American Civil War. His stepfather was William Murphy.
Born near St. Louis, Missouri, McClurg was orphaned at seven and raised by grandparents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his grandfather owned the city's first iron foundry.
Educated at Xenia Academy and Oxford College in Ohio, he taught school briefly in Louisiana and Mississippi in the 1830's before returning to St. Louis to serve as deputy for his uncle, Sheriff Marshall Brotherton.
At 19, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Texas, although he never practiced. In 1841, he returned to Missouri to marry Mary Catherine Johnson. He was involved in lead mining and merchandising and created McClurg's Old Salt Road through rural Missouri to assure a supply of salt for his customers.
In 1844, he would operate a store in Hazelwood (the first county seat of Webster County), Missouri with his stepfather.
In 1850, McClurg left Missouri for the gold rush in California, where he opened a miner's store in Georgetown (12 miles from Sutton's Mill). After two years, he returned to Missouri, this time to Linn Creek (now under the Lake of the Ozarks), where he established a thriving business supplying settlers and merchants in Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and the Indian Territory.
An avid abolitionist, he was a delegate to the historic Gamble Convention in March 1861, in which Missouri agreed to stay in the Union. During the Civil War, McClurg was a colonel in the Missouri Volunteers until elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1862, 1864 and 1866.
He resigned his last term to run for Missouri governor as a Radical Republican, a party against the re-enfranchisement of ex-Confederates. He served a two year term and with Radical Republicanism falling from favor, lost his bid for re-election.
In 1886, he accompanied his son, Joseph, and his daughter, Fannie along with her six children, to homestead in the Dakota Territory. It was an entrepreneurial venture made promising on the basis of several years of mild weather; however, the winter of 1886-87 was a famously cruel one that convinced the family to return to Missouri.
He was appointed Registrar of Lands at Springfield before returning to Lebanon, Missouri, where he died in 1900."
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CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1933
DR. M. J. McCLURG IS DEAD
END COMES DURING THE NIGHT AT HOME ON MAPLE STREET
Veteran Dentist Had Lived Here More Than 50 Years - Father Early Day Governor of Missouri
Dr. Marshall J. M. McClurg, 75, veteran Carthage dentist, was found dead early this morning in his bed at his home, 1116 South Maple street, by a daughter, Mrs. Mary Fletcher.
Dr. McClurg had been in ill health the last year and for the last month had been confined to his bed. He was a patient for a few days at McCune-Brooks hospital while x-ray pictures were being made and was later moved to his home on South Maple street. His condition had been gradually growing weaker and Sunday a decided change was noted. He apparently died while sleeping last night.
Born in Linn Creek, MO., January 21, 1858, Dr. McClurg attended the schools there and after deciding to take up the profession of dentistry enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania Dental College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated.
Returning to Missouri he located at Lebanon, practicing within 100 miles of Lebanon, making the rounds on horseback with his dental equipment carried in saddlebags. He had a regular schedule and folks of the countryside would assemble at the various towns on his route to greet him and have their teeth attended to.
Practiced Here about 50 Years
The veteran dentist was first in interested in Carthage by the late Maj. A. F. Lewis, a friend of the family of long standing. He arrived here in April 1881 and continued his practice here until December 9, 1926 when he retired from active service. Carthage dentists honored their "dean" at a banquet soon after his retirement.
Dr. McClurg was a son of Joseph W. McClurg, governor of Missouri in 1869 and 1871. He was nominated for governor of Missouri by the Republican party, resigning his seat in congress, to which he had been elected by his district in 1862. His administration was devoted to the struggle to repair the ravages of war. Governor McClurg not only urged upon the legislature the passage of laws prohibiting the manufacture of intoxicants but was also an advocate of woman suffrage. He died at the home of a daughter near Lebanon in 1900, at the age of 83. A simple granite shaft, erected by the state of Missouri, marks his last retiring place in the Lebanon Cemetery.
Dr. McClurg, in addition to practice of his profession in his earlier days here was active in the famous old Carthage Light Guard which won fame as a crack military organization. For many years he was a member and officer of the school board. He also was associated with many business enterprises. He served as secretary of the Leggett and Platt Spring Bed Manufacturing Company from 1905 until the first of this year when he requested that he be relieved from that duty on account of his health. While he was never active in the management of the business he was closely affiliated with the firm.
Y.M.C.A. and Church Leader
He was a charter member of the Carthage Y.M.C.A. and was a member of the board of trustees at the time of his death. He also was a member of the First Presbyterian church here for about 50 years. He served as deacon of the church about 42 years and a trustee four years. He was an unusually faithful member, never missing a Sunday service when he was physically able to be present.
Mrs. McClurg passed away December 11, 1932 in Carthage. She was ill for sometime before her death.
Surviving are two daughter, Miss Jean McClurg of the home and Mrs. Mary Fletcher of Golden, Colorado; two sisters, Mrs. Tom Monroe of Muskogee, Oklahoma and Mrs. Charles Draper of Lebanon; two brothers, Joe McClurg of Lebanon and Dr. J. A. McClurg of Kansas City, and a grandson, Richard McClurg Fletcher. Dr. McClurg was the youngest of his family.
Funeral services will be held Monday, at the hour and the place to be determined later. Dr. Walter F. Bradley, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will be in charge, assisted by Dr. G. F. Harbour. Burial will be in Park Cemetery.
Added by NJBrewer
Prospecting on Leases Near Porto Rico and Duenweg.
A company of Carthage men, composing the Mutual Mining and Prospecting Co., made a good strike in its second drill hole on twenty acre lease which it holds on the Tell land at the four corners near Porto Rico. A fifteen foot face of jack and lead was struck at 175 feet.
Other drill holes are to be put down. This company also has an 18 acre lease near Duenweg which it has begun to prospect. The company is composed of J.E. Bell, E.S. Williams, J.P. Leggett, C.B. Platt, M.J. McClurg, Robt. Stickney, E.B. Jacobs, A.L. Olive, C.J. Smith, W.S. Burch, H.A. Wolcott and a Montana gentleman who is a friend of one of the resident members of the company. (Mornin' Mail)
CARTHAGE WEEKLY BANNER
JANUARY 22, 1885
Dr. McClurg has completed a remarkably fine outfit of dental insturments by the addition of a nitrous oxide gasometer. It is a reservoir and condenser for 'laughing gas' and the condenser contains in a space not larger than a half gallon measure one hundred gallons of gas. The gas is administered to the patient through a rubber tube. As laughing gas is considered the safest and most effective anesthetic it will be welcome agent in depriving of its terrors the painful operation of tooth-pulling.
AT RIGHT: Profiled in the August 13, 1891 edition of the Carthage Weekly Press newspaper as a Light Guard member.
Marshal J. McClurg, DDS, an early day Carthage, Missouri dentist passed away at his home at 1116 South Maple St of complications of stomach cancer and heart disease. He was 75 years old. For many years, his business was in the upper floors of the Caffee Drug Store, northwest corner of the square on 3rd & Main Streets. His wife Effie preceded him in death in 1932.
He was the son of Joseph W. and Mary (Johnson) McClurg
NOTE: The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
________________________________________________
Information below about Dr. McClurg's father was provided courtesy of Judith Terry
Father of Dr. Marshall McClurg was Governor of Missouri Joseph Washington McClurg, b. in Missouri. (Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005.
Source: Wikipedia/Joseph W McClurg
Joseph Washington McClurg (February 22, 1818 – December 2, 1900) was a Governor of Missouri in the decade following the American Civil War. His stepfather was William Murphy.
Born near St. Louis, Missouri, McClurg was orphaned at seven and raised by grandparents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his grandfather owned the city's first iron foundry.
Educated at Xenia Academy and Oxford College in Ohio, he taught school briefly in Louisiana and Mississippi in the 1830's before returning to St. Louis to serve as deputy for his uncle, Sheriff Marshall Brotherton.
At 19, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Texas, although he never practiced. In 1841, he returned to Missouri to marry Mary Catherine Johnson. He was involved in lead mining and merchandising and created McClurg's Old Salt Road through rural Missouri to assure a supply of salt for his customers.
In 1844, he would operate a store in Hazelwood (the first county seat of Webster County), Missouri with his stepfather.
In 1850, McClurg left Missouri for the gold rush in California, where he opened a miner's store in Georgetown (12 miles from Sutton's Mill). After two years, he returned to Missouri, this time to Linn Creek (now under the Lake of the Ozarks), where he established a thriving business supplying settlers and merchants in Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and the Indian Territory.
An avid abolitionist, he was a delegate to the historic Gamble Convention in March 1861, in which Missouri agreed to stay in the Union. During the Civil War, McClurg was a colonel in the Missouri Volunteers until elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1862, 1864 and 1866.
He resigned his last term to run for Missouri governor as a Radical Republican, a party against the re-enfranchisement of ex-Confederates. He served a two year term and with Radical Republicanism falling from favor, lost his bid for re-election.
In 1886, he accompanied his son, Joseph, and his daughter, Fannie along with her six children, to homestead in the Dakota Territory. It was an entrepreneurial venture made promising on the basis of several years of mild weather; however, the winter of 1886-87 was a famously cruel one that convinced the family to return to Missouri.
He was appointed Registrar of Lands at Springfield before returning to Lebanon, Missouri, where he died in 1900."
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CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1933
DR. M. J. McCLURG IS DEAD
END COMES DURING THE NIGHT AT HOME ON MAPLE STREET
Veteran Dentist Had Lived Here More Than 50 Years - Father Early Day Governor of Missouri
Dr. Marshall J. M. McClurg, 75, veteran Carthage dentist, was found dead early this morning in his bed at his home, 1116 South Maple street, by a daughter, Mrs. Mary Fletcher.
Dr. McClurg had been in ill health the last year and for the last month had been confined to his bed. He was a patient for a few days at McCune-Brooks hospital while x-ray pictures were being made and was later moved to his home on South Maple street. His condition had been gradually growing weaker and Sunday a decided change was noted. He apparently died while sleeping last night.
Born in Linn Creek, MO., January 21, 1858, Dr. McClurg attended the schools there and after deciding to take up the profession of dentistry enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania Dental College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated.
Returning to Missouri he located at Lebanon, practicing within 100 miles of Lebanon, making the rounds on horseback with his dental equipment carried in saddlebags. He had a regular schedule and folks of the countryside would assemble at the various towns on his route to greet him and have their teeth attended to.
Practiced Here about 50 Years
The veteran dentist was first in interested in Carthage by the late Maj. A. F. Lewis, a friend of the family of long standing. He arrived here in April 1881 and continued his practice here until December 9, 1926 when he retired from active service. Carthage dentists honored their "dean" at a banquet soon after his retirement.
Dr. McClurg was a son of Joseph W. McClurg, governor of Missouri in 1869 and 1871. He was nominated for governor of Missouri by the Republican party, resigning his seat in congress, to which he had been elected by his district in 1862. His administration was devoted to the struggle to repair the ravages of war. Governor McClurg not only urged upon the legislature the passage of laws prohibiting the manufacture of intoxicants but was also an advocate of woman suffrage. He died at the home of a daughter near Lebanon in 1900, at the age of 83. A simple granite shaft, erected by the state of Missouri, marks his last retiring place in the Lebanon Cemetery.
Dr. McClurg, in addition to practice of his profession in his earlier days here was active in the famous old Carthage Light Guard which won fame as a crack military organization. For many years he was a member and officer of the school board. He also was associated with many business enterprises. He served as secretary of the Leggett and Platt Spring Bed Manufacturing Company from 1905 until the first of this year when he requested that he be relieved from that duty on account of his health. While he was never active in the management of the business he was closely affiliated with the firm.
Y.M.C.A. and Church Leader
He was a charter member of the Carthage Y.M.C.A. and was a member of the board of trustees at the time of his death. He also was a member of the First Presbyterian church here for about 50 years. He served as deacon of the church about 42 years and a trustee four years. He was an unusually faithful member, never missing a Sunday service when he was physically able to be present.
Mrs. McClurg passed away December 11, 1932 in Carthage. She was ill for sometime before her death.
Surviving are two daughter, Miss Jean McClurg of the home and Mrs. Mary Fletcher of Golden, Colorado; two sisters, Mrs. Tom Monroe of Muskogee, Oklahoma and Mrs. Charles Draper of Lebanon; two brothers, Joe McClurg of Lebanon and Dr. J. A. McClurg of Kansas City, and a grandson, Richard McClurg Fletcher. Dr. McClurg was the youngest of his family.
Funeral services will be held Monday, at the hour and the place to be determined later. Dr. Walter F. Bradley, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will be in charge, assisted by Dr. G. F. Harbour. Burial will be in Park Cemetery.
Added by NJBrewer
A company of Carthage men, composing the Mutual Mining and Prospecting Co., made a good strike in its second drill hole on twenty acre lease which it holds on the Tell land at the four corners near Porto Rico. A fifteen foot face of jack and lead was struck at 175 feet.
Other drill holes are to be put down. This company also has an 18 acre lease near Duenweg which it has begun to prospect. The company is composed of J.E. Bell, E.S. Williams, J.P. Leggett, C.B. Platt, M.J. McClurg, Robt. Stickney, E.B. Jacobs, A.L. Olive, C.J. Smith, W.S. Burch, H.A. Wolcott and a Montana gentleman who is a friend of one of the resident members of the company. (Mornin' Mail)
CARTHAGE WEEKLY BANNER
JANUARY 22, 1885
Dr. McClurg has completed a remarkably fine outfit of dental insturments by the addition of a nitrous oxide gasometer. It is a reservoir and condenser for 'laughing gas' and the condenser contains in a space not larger than a half gallon measure one hundred gallons of gas. The gas is administered to the patient through a rubber tube. As laughing gas is considered the safest and most effective anesthetic it will be welcome agent in depriving of its terrors the painful operation of tooth-pulling.
AT RIGHT: Profiled in the August 13, 1891 edition of the Carthage Weekly Press newspaper as a Light Guard member.
Marshal J. McClurg, DDS, an early day Carthage, Missouri dentist passed away at his home at 1116 South Maple St of complications of stomach cancer and heart disease. He was 75 years old. For many years, his business was in the upper floors of the Caffee Drug Store, northwest corner of the square on 3rd & Main Streets. His wife Effie preceded him in death in 1932.
He was the son of Joseph W. and Mary (Johnson) McClurg
NOTE: The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
________________________________________________
Information below about Dr. McClurg's father was provided courtesy of Judith Terry
Father of Dr. Marshall McClurg was Governor of Missouri Joseph Washington McClurg, b. in Missouri. (Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005.
Source: Wikipedia/Joseph W McClurg
Joseph Washington McClurg (February 22, 1818 – December 2, 1900) was a Governor of Missouri in the decade following the American Civil War. His stepfather was William Murphy.
Born near St. Louis, Missouri, McClurg was orphaned at seven and raised by grandparents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where his grandfather owned the city's first iron foundry.
Educated at Xenia Academy and Oxford College in Ohio, he taught school briefly in Louisiana and Mississippi in the 1830's before returning to St. Louis to serve as deputy for his uncle, Sheriff Marshall Brotherton.
At 19, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Texas, although he never practiced. In 1841, he returned to Missouri to marry Mary Catherine Johnson. He was involved in lead mining and merchandising and created McClurg's Old Salt Road through rural Missouri to assure a supply of salt for his customers.
In 1844, he would operate a store in Hazelwood (the first county seat of Webster County), Missouri with his stepfather.
In 1850, McClurg left Missouri for the gold rush in California, where he opened a miner's store in Georgetown (12 miles from Sutton's Mill). After two years, he returned to Missouri, this time to Linn Creek (now under the Lake of the Ozarks), where he established a thriving business supplying settlers and merchants in Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and the Indian Territory.
An avid abolitionist, he was a delegate to the historic Gamble Convention in March 1861, in which Missouri agreed to stay in the Union. During the Civil War, McClurg was a colonel in the Missouri Volunteers until elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1862, 1864 and 1866.
He resigned his last term to run for Missouri governor as a Radical Republican, a party against the re-enfranchisement of ex-Confederates. He served a two year term and with Radical Republicanism falling from favor, lost his bid for re-election.
In 1886, he accompanied his son, Joseph, and his daughter, Fannie along with her six children, to homestead in the Dakota Territory. It was an entrepreneurial venture made promising on the basis of several years of mild weather; however, the winter of 1886-87 was a famously cruel one that convinced the family to return to Missouri.
He was appointed Registrar of Lands at Springfield before returning to Lebanon, Missouri, where he died in 1900."
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CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1933
DR. M. J. McCLURG IS DEAD
END COMES DURING THE NIGHT AT HOME ON MAPLE STREET
Veteran Dentist Had Lived Here More Than 50 Years - Father Early Day Governor of Missouri
Dr. Marshall J. M. McClurg, 75, veteran Carthage dentist, was found dead early this morning in his bed at his home, 1116 South Maple street, by a daughter, Mrs. Mary Fletcher.
Dr. McClurg had been in ill health the last year and for the last month had been confined to his bed. He was a patient for a few days at McCune-Brooks hospital while x-ray pictures were being made and was later moved to his home on South Maple street. His condition had been gradually growing weaker and Sunday a decided change was noted. He apparently died while sleeping last night.
Born in Linn Creek, MO., January 21, 1858, Dr. McClurg attended the schools there and after deciding to take up the profession of dentistry enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania Dental College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated.
Returning to Missouri he located at Lebanon, practicing within 100 miles of Lebanon, making the rounds on horseback with his dental equipment carried in saddlebags. He had a regular schedule and folks of the countryside would assemble at the various towns on his route to greet him and have their teeth attended to.
Practiced Here about 50 Years
The veteran dentist was first in interested in Carthage by the late Maj. A. F. Lewis, a friend of the family of long standing. He arrived here in April 1881 and continued his practice here until December 9, 1926 when he retired from active service. Carthage dentists honored their "dean" at a banquet soon after his retirement.
Dr. McClurg was a son of Joseph W. McClurg, governor of Missouri in 1869 and 1871. He was nominated for governor of Missouri by the Republican party, resigning his seat in congress, to which he had been elected by his district in 1862. His administration was devoted to the struggle to repair the ravages of war. Governor McClurg not only urged upon the legislature the passage of laws prohibiting the manufacture of intoxicants but was also an advocate of woman suffrage. He died at the home of a daughter near Lebanon in 1900, at the age of 83. A simple granite shaft, erected by the state of Missouri, marks his last retiring place in the Lebanon Cemetery.
Dr. McClurg, in addition to practice of his profession in his earlier days here was active in the famous old Carthage Light Guard which won fame as a crack military organization. For many years he was a member and officer of the school board. He also was associated with many business enterprises. He served as secretary of the Leggett and Platt Spring Bed Manufacturing Company from 1905 until the first of this year when he requested that he be relieved from that duty on account of his health. While he was never active in the management of the business he was closely affiliated with the firm.
Y.M.C.A. and Church Leader
He was a charter member of the Carthage Y.M.C.A. and was a member of the board of trustees at the time of his death. He also was a member of the First Presbyterian church here for about 50 years. He served as deacon of the church about 42 years and a trustee four years. He was an unusually faithful member, never missing a Sunday service when he was physically able to be present.
Mrs. McClurg passed away December 11, 1932 in Carthage. She was ill for sometime before her death.
Surviving are two daughter, Miss Jean McClurg of the home and Mrs. Mary Fletcher of Golden, Colorado; two sisters, Mrs. Tom Monroe of Muskogee, Oklahoma and Mrs. Charles Draper of Lebanon; two brothers, Joe McClurg of Lebanon and Dr. J. A. McClurg of Kansas City, and a grandson, Richard McClurg Fletcher. Dr. McClurg was the youngest of his family.
Funeral services will be held Monday, at the hour and the place to be determined later. Dr. Walter F. Bradley, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, will be in charge, assisted by Dr. G. F. Harbour. Burial will be in Park Cemetery.
Added by NJBrewer
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