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FRANCIS N. McCLURE, farmer, post office Chase, son of Robert and Elizabeth McClure, was born in Mifflin township, this county, in 1822. Judge Francis McClure, one of the pioneers of Allegheny county, was a native of Ireland, emigrated to America and located in this county, and was one of its able and prominent citizens. He was a member of the state legislature and an associate judge of the county. John McClure, paternal grandfather of Francis N., was American born. Robert, father of Francis N., was born in Mifflin townships in 1792, and married, in 1816, Elizabeth, daughter of Judge Francis McClure, located in Mifflin township, and engaged in farming, and there he reared his family. Their children were Alexander F. (deceased), Nancy D. (deceased), Francis M., John A. (deceased), Margaret (the late Mrs. James B. Hill), James, Samuel (deceased), Martha (deceased) and Robert T. Robert Mc Clure was a contractor and builder, also a coal-operator, having mines at Green Spring. The last years of his life were passed in Pittsburgh, where he died, and Elizabeth, his wife, died at Braddock. Francis N. McClure married, in 1850, Margaret M., daughter of Francis McClure and granddaughter of the judge, and they located in Mifflin township, where he engaged in farming. Their children were Charles S. (deceased), Richard H., Anna E. (now Mrs. A. Verner), Martha A. (now Mrs. John Kelly), Margaret H., Catherine J. and James H. They remained in Mifflin township until he purchased, in 1873, the farm he now owns in Versailles township, to which they removed, and which is now their present residence. They are both members of the U. P. Church. He is a republican, and has been a recipient of political honors in both Mifflin and Versailles townships.