My Genealogy Hound

Dr. M. McClure is the owner and manager of “The Batesville Steam Patent Roller Flour Mills,” supposed to have cost over $20,000, including steam cotton-gin, with steam compress for baling; also wood-working machinery, planing-mills, re-saws, and woolen mills; also the owner of very valuable city property and thousands of acres of land in this and adjoining counties. He left home when but seven years old, and has paddled his own canoe ever since. From what we can learn from his friends, he educated himself and made all his property by his untiring industry, notwithstanding his father’s estate (who died when the Doctor was but two years old) left a competency to have educated all the heirs, if it had been properly managed by the administrator. The above shows what a boy can do if he has the will and determination. Dr. McClure was born twenty miles north of Maysville, Ky., and obtained the most of his education in Ohio. He graduated in the dental profession in Cincinnati. Practicing his profession in Decatur, Ill., for six years, he went South in 1858, and settled in Batesville, Ark., where he has remained since. He married a Miss H. A. Sigler, in Ross County, Ohio, in 1861. He joined the Confederate army in 1864, and surrendered as assistant surgeon, at Jacksonport, in 1865. He put several thousand dollars in a newspaper, The North Arkansas Times, a Democratic sheet, now owned by Batesville Printing Company, and still Democratic. We understand Dr. McClure has about quit his profession, but still keeps things moving.