USA > Mississippi > Mississippi : comprising sketches of towns, events, institutions, and persons, arranged in cyclopedic form Vol. III > Part 62
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107
McAlister, William M., of Waynesboro, who is representative of- Wayne county in the State legislature, 1904-6, is one of the able and successful members of the bar of the commonwealth of Mississippi, which has been his home from the time of his birth. He was born in Pontotoc county, Miss., Jan. 3, 1859, and is a son of William Alexander McAlister, while the maiden name of his mother was Lo- zanna Falkner. His father was born in Tuscaloosa county, Ala., of Scotch ancestry, the family having been founded in South Caro- lina in the colonial era of our national history. William A. McAlis- ter came from Alabama to Mississippi in the thirties, settling in Pontotoc county and being one of the sterling pioneers of that sec- tion, where he became a successful planter. He was a Confederate soldier during the Civil war, having been a member of the Thirty- first Mississippi infantry, with which he served from the beginning to the close of the war. Venerable in age, he and his wife are still living and maintain their home in Union county, Miss. William Monroe McAlister secured his preliminary education in the schools of his native county, after which he was for one year a student in the National Normal university, at Lebanon, Ohio. In 1885 he entered the law department of Cumberland university, at Lebanon, Tenn., in which he was graduated in June, 1886, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Shortly afterward he was admitted to the bar of Mississippi, in Pontotoc county. He then located in Houston, Chickasaw county, where he built up a very successful practice, remaining there established until 1895, since which year he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Waynesboro, where he has a clientage of representative character and where he has aug- mented his prestige as a well fortified and able member of the bar, -a strong advocate and a safe and conservative counsellor. He is a stalwart Democrat in politics and is a prominent and effective worker in the party cause, being a member of the Democratic com- mittee of his congressional district, while in 1903 he was elected to represent Wayne county in the State legislature, in which he has exerted much influence in the fostering of wise legislation. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his religious faith is indicated by his member-
540
MISSISSIPPI
ship in the Baptist church. On Dec. 22. 1882, Mr. McAlister was married to Miss Annie Garrett, of Pontotoc county, whose death occurred Aug. 6, 1897, and who is survived by four children: Heber Lowry, who is a member of the class of 1906 in Mississippi college, at Clinton; Ellie May, who is a member of the class of 1906 in Mary Connor Female college, at Paris, Tex., and Willie Hill and Annie Lowe, who remain at the parental home. On Nov. 15, 1899, Mr. McAlister wedded Miss Lucie Dicken, daughter of James Dicken, of Attala county, Miss., and they have three children, Jesse Monroe, Lucie Black and Frank Dicken.
McAllister, Frank Chambers, of Canton, is the efficient and popular chancery clerk of Madison county. He was born on the homestead plantation of his father, in this county, in February, 1865, being a son of William E. and Rebecca (Johnston) McAllister, the former of whom was born in South Carolina, of Scottish ancestry. Mr. McAllister was afforded the advantages of the schools of Madison county and continued to assist in the work and management of the home plantation until he had attained to the age of twenty years. Thereafter he divided his time between farming and clerking for several years and then established himself in the general merchan- dise business on Big Black river, his store being finally destroyed by fire. He then removed to the State of Washington, where he remained several years. Upon his return to Mississippi he estab- lished himself in the drug business in Canton, continuing in this line of enterprise six years. In 1903 he was elected chancery clerk of Madison county and he has since continued to discharge the duties of this office with utmost efficiency. He is a stanch advocate of the principles of the Democratic party and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Woodmen of the World. In 1902 he was united in marriage to Miss Hattie May Baldwin, daughter of William O. Baldwin, of Madison county.
McBee, Richard Cunliffe, one of the most prominent of the younger generation of the Holmes county bar, was born on Woodlawn plan- tation near Lexington, May 3, 1881. He is a son of John Harbour and Alice (Cunliffe) McBee, the former born at Poplar Grove, Holmes county, Aug. 19, 1856, and the latter at Woodlawn plantation Nov. 1, 1861. The mother was a daughter of John Richard and Susan (Walton) Cunliffe and her marriage to John Harbour McBee was solemnized July 16, 1880. Ten children blessed this union, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first born. The others are John Harbour, Jr., Susan Walton, Dalton, William, Mitta, Anna, Marguer- ite, Dudley and Dorothy. Joshua T. McBee, paternal grandfather of Richard Cunliffe McBee, entered the Civil war as captain of Com- pany A of the Twenty-eighth Mississippi infantry of the Confed- erate army, and when hostilities had ceased he was mustered out as a colonel. The maternal grandfather. John Richard Cunliffe, was a member of the Eighteenth Mississippi infantry and fell mortally wounded in the battle of the Wilderness. Richard Cunliffe McBee received his early educational training in the schools of Holmes
541
BIOGRAPHICAL
county. He matriculated at the University of the South at Sewanee and then transferred to the University of Mississippi in 1900, enter- ing the department of law. When he had been given his degree he located at Lexington and since that time has been continuously and successfully engaged in legal practice. In politics he is a stanch believer in the principles of the Democratic party and as the candi- date of that party he has been honored with election to the mayor- alty chair of Lexington. For several terms he served as chairman of the executive committee of the county Democratic committee. In fraternal circles Mr. McBee is widely known. While in college he became a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He is a Knight Templar and Shriner of the Masonic order and a past master of the Lexington lodge. He is also identified with the Knights of Pythias, of which order he is past chancellor. In religious matters he is con- nected with the Episcopal church, being a devout communicant at the Lexington edifice of that denomination. Mr. McBee is un- married. His father, for twenty-one years the efficient clerk of the circuit court of Holmes county, passed away Oct. 5, 1904. The subject of this memoir is recognized throughout the county as one of the most progressive young men of the community, and a lawyer of promise and is at this writing a candidate for district attorney of his county.
McCalip, William D., M. D., is successfully established in the prac- tice of his profession in Cleveland, and is recognized as one of the able representatives of his profession in Bolivar county. He was born in Copiah county, Miss., March 4, 1876, and is a son of William T. and Martha C. (Davis) McCalip, the former of whom was born in Lincoln county, this State, and the latter in Copiah county. The father is one of the influential planters of Copiah county, maintain- ing his home in Brookhaven. His wife is a daughter of William F. Davis, who rendered faithful service to the Confederacy as a soldier in the Civil war, having been a relative of Jefferson Davis, the hon- ored and distinguished president of the Confederate States. His grandfather was a patriot solider of the Continental line in the War of the Revolution. After completing the curriculum of the common schools of his native county Dr. McCalip became a student in the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical college, at Starkville, where he received valuable academic and practical discipline. He was then matriculated in the Louisville medical college, in Louis- ville, Ky., where he was graduated March 25, 1897, receiving his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. Thereafter he served for a time as interne in the Mississippi State charity hospital, at Vicksburg, where he gained valuable clinical experience, further fortifying himself for the work of his exacting profession. For three years he was engaged in practice at Roxie, Miss., and Nov. 20, 1899, he located in Cleveland, where he is meeting with distinc- tive success in his professional work and where he is held in unequivo- cal esteem. The doctor is identified with the Mississippi State medi- cal association, the Tri-State medical association, is secretary of the Bolivar county medical society, and is ex-president of the Clarks-
542
MISSISSIPPI
dale Six Counties medical society. He is master of Cleveland Lodge, No. 470, Free and Accepted Masons, is a stanch adherent of the Democratic party, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Baptist church, being prominent and deservedly popular in the social life of the community. On Feb. 25, 1900, Dr. McCalip was united in marriage to Miss Lela Noble, daughter of John W. Noble, of Harriston, Jefferson county, Miss., and they have one child, Mabel Josephine.
McClelland, Thomas, is a representa- tive citizen and business man of the capital city of Mississippi, is president of the Jackson bank and is an honored veteran of the Civil war. He was born in Hinds county, Miss., Dec. 18, 1845, being a son of Jesse and Rhoda Ann (Martin) McClelland, the former of whom was born in Georgia and the 1 latter in Hinds county, Miss. When Jesse McClelland was a child his parents came to Mississippi, where he was Ye reared and educated and where his marriage was solemnized. In 1850 he removed to Baton Rouge, La., where he died, three years later, of yellow fever. His widow returned with her children to Mississippi, passing the remainder of her life in her native State, her death occurring in 1897. Thomas McClelland secured his early education in private schools, in Hinds county, and he was about seventeen years of age when, in the latter part of the year 1862, he showed his loyalty to the Confederate cause by enlist- ing as a private in the cavalry company of Captain McCowan. This was a part of the Mississippi battalion, under Col. C. C. Wilbourn, afterward recruited to form the Fourth regiment of Mississippi cav- alry, Gholson's brigade, Gen. Wirt Adams' division, under Gens. Stephen D. Lee and Nathan B. Forrest. Mr. McClelland served with this command until the close of the war, participating in nu- merous expeditions, raids, skirmishes and battles, including the famous battle of Harrisburg, Miss., in July, 1864. He was paroled, with General Forrest's command, at Gainesville, Ala., May 10, 1865. Returning to his old home, in Hinds county, he finally engaged in agricultural pursuits, in which he continued fifteen years, after which he engaged in the mercantile trade. Since 1891 he has been at the head of a most prosperous business enterprise in the city of Jackson, being president of the McClelland Hardware Company, wholesale dealers in hardware, while he is also president of the Capital Light and Power Company. On taking up his residence in Jackson he was made a member of the directorate of the Jackson bank, organized under the laws of the State, and in 1894 he was made vice-president of the institution, serving in this capacity until 1897, when he was elected president, having since been the executive head of the bank. He is one of the influential citizens of the capital, where he is held
543
BIOGRAPHICAL
in high regard. He is a stanch Democrat, and he served five years as a member of the board of supervisors of Hinds county while he has represented the fourth ward on the board of aldermen of Jackson since 1900. He is affiliated with R. A. Smith Camp, United Con- federate Veterans. In 1869 Mr. McClelland was married to Miss Nannie E. McCoy, and they have one son and four daughters; viz .: Anna, wife of Robt. E. Taylor; Abina, wife of Patrick Britton; Rhoda, wife of Edgar Enochs; Eva, at home; Vernon T., vice-president and general manager of the McClelland Hardware Company.
McClurg, Monroe, ex-attorney general of Mississippi and recognized as one of the most distinguished members of the bar of the State, has accomplished much in behalf of this commonwealth, both in the province of his profession and through other means of public service, and he is now actively established in the practice of law at Greenwood, the ju- dicial center of Leflore county. Mr. McClurg was born near Vaiden, Carroll county, Miss., March 19, 1857, and is a son of Yancy Crawford McClurg, who was born at Clinton, Hinds county, this State, Oct. 15, 1828; and Susan Malissa (Cain) McClurg, who was born in Carroll county, Miss., being the youngest daughter of Patrick Cain, a pioneer settler from South Carolina. The paternal great-grandfather of Monroe McClurg was a Scotsman who came to America prior to the War of the Revolu- tion, settling in South Carolina, where he reared a family of children. In Abbeville district, that State, was born William McClurg, grand- father of Monroe, the date of his nativity having been Dec. 1, 1800. Some of the older members of the family settled in Pennsylvania, and one of the family, James McClurg, was a delegate from Virginia to the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States, which instrument he declined to sign. Representatives of both the McClurg and Cain families were found enrolled as patriot soldiers of the Continental line during the Revolution. William McClurg came to Mississippi in 1820 and settled in Hinds county, whence he later removed to Kemper county, while in 1839 he located in Carroll county, where he died Sept. 29, 1863. Yancy Crawford McClurg was ten years of age at the time of the family removal to Carroll county, where he has ever since maintained his home, being one of the leading citizens and honored pioneers of that section. He rendered valiant service in the cause of the Confederacy during the Civil war, having been a member of Company A, Twenty-eighth Mississippi cavalry, from which, in 1862, he was transferred to Com- pany F of a regiment of Mississippi reserved forces, and he was cap- tain of his company at the close of the war, having received his parole at Scooba, Kemper county, Miss. He returned to Carroll county after the war and has long been known as one of its most
544
MISSISSIPPI
successful planters. His first wife died Aug. 14, 1874, and he later married Miss Artimisia Bagley. They became the parents of one child, Katherine, now dead. After duly completing the curriculum of the common schools of his native county Monroe McClurg took an academic course at Louisville, Miss., and then entered the law department of the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, being there graduated in June, 1878, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In November of the following year he opened an office in Vaiden, Car- roll county, and soon began to build up a good law business, while he also founded the Vaiden Nucleus, of which he was editor and publisher about one year, 1880, and of which he disposed in order to devote his entire attention to his professional business. In 1880 he formed a partnership with Hon. Thomas H. Somerville, a lawyer of the first rank, and they continued to be associated in a large prac- tice until 1896, while Mr. McClurg transferred his residence and professional headquarters to Greenwood, Leflore county, that winter. He has controlled a large general practice, in all courts, and has been retained as counsel for important corporations, while professional ability and unswerving personal integrity have been the basic ele- ments of his pronounced success and prestige. From an appreciative article concerning him, published in 1891, the following pertinent excerpts are made: "Since he became a voter he has taken a lively interest in local and State affairs, from the standpoint of a good citizen, advocating the doctrines of the Democratic party, while he has attended, as a delegate from Carroll county, every State conven- tion of the party from 1878, but was never a candidate for office until 1890, when he was one of the delegates from Carroll county to the constitutional convention of Mississippi which framed the new constitution, securing legal white supremacy to the people of his State. Although one of the youngest members of that body he at once displayed such talent and discrimination as to win the respect and admiration of his senior fellow members. He was placed on the committee on apportionment, franchise and elections, the most important subdivision of the convention, and also on the committee on printing. His speech in opposition to the Campbell plan, or plural voting, based upon a property qualification, was pronounced one of the most forcible, logical arguments made during the session. He secured the adoption into the constitution of the provisions privileging the legislature to choose presidential electors, for the requiring of the legislature to limit or prevent the ownership of lands in the State by non-resident aliens and corporations, and for the changing of county and district lines and the removal of court houses. He introduced a proposition to abolish capital punishment in the State, but it failed to pass. In the spring of 1891 he opened the famous sub-treasury campaign in Mississippi. The advocates of that measure were determined to defeat the re-election of Senator George to the United States senate, for the reason that he declared their scheme undemocratic, impracticable and unconstitutional. They concentrated their efforts in Carroll county, the home of the senator, and it was evident from the first that the struggle would
..
545
BIOGRAPHICAL
be a hard one. Mr. McClurg was a candidate for the legislature. He heartily endorsed the views of Senator George, but he considered the fight hopeless in the county, and while his ticket was defeated he stood in the lead on that side for representative." In 1900 Mr. McClurg was chosen a member of the State house commission which had in charge the building of the magnificent new capitol, and he served on that commission until February, 1903. He was also a member of the commission which purchased the State convict farm, and in 1900 was a member of the State board of public education. In 1892 Mr. McClurg was leading counsel employed by the governor for Mississippi in the boundary case instituted in the supreme court of the United States by the State of Louisiana, respecting the divid- ing line in the Gulf of Mexico. At the present time he is a member of the building committee to which is assigned the providing for the erection of a new court house in Leflore county, at a cost of $100,000. In 1896 Mr. McClurg represented Carroll county in the State legis- lature, and from 1900 to 1903 he was incumbent of the important office of attorney general of Mississippi, in which he made an enviable record and materially broadened his reputation as one of the dis- tinguished members of the bar of his native State. Mr. McClurg is a zealous member of the Presbyterian church, and in 1888 he was State delegate from Mississippi to the international Sunday-school convention in the city of Chicago. He is identified with the Ma- sonic fraternity and is one of the leading representatives of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows in Mississippi, being past grand master of the grand lodge of the State, while for six years he was grand representative to the sovereign grand lodge. He is also affiliated with the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity. On Dec. 5, 1881, Mr. McClurg was united in marriage to Miss Ida B. Williams, daughter of Andy B. and Mary E. (Dumas) Williams, of Choctaw county, and they have three children, Susie M., who is the wife of Bonner Richardson, of Greenwood; Maude A., who is the wife of S. E. Mc- Connico, Jr., of Vaiden; and Monroe, Jr. Mrs. McClurg died March 17, 1906.
McClintock, James W., manager of the Bank of Belzoni, was born at Sallis, Attala county, Miss., March 15, 1872. His father, Samuel H. McClintock, was born at Lawrence Court House, S. C. During the war he served in the Confederate army. The mother was a Miss Susan Meek, a native of Winston county, Miss. James W. McClintock was educated in the public schools and began his busi- ness career as a clerk in a drug store at Sallis. He soon manifested that ready grasp of business propositions and that careful attention to little details which are the essentials of success in commercial life. Men of this character always find it comparatively easy to mount to better positions, and Mr. McClintock is no exception to the rule. In 1905 he was called to the management of the Bank of Belzoni, which position he still occupies, and which offers a wider field for the exercise of his talents. As a believer in the principles of the Democratic party he takes an active interest in public affairs, and is now a member of the board of aldermen of Belzoni, where
35-III
546
MISSISSIPPI
his progressive ideas play an important part in shaping the destinies of the town. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias, in both of which orders he is popular because of his genial disposition and general good fellowship. On Feb. 3, 1896, Miss Georgia Rutherford became Mrs. James W. McClintock. She was born at Sandy Hook, Va., her parents being Richard and Jennie (Davis) Rutherford, members of old Virginia families. To this marriage have been born three children: Samuel R., James W., Jr., and Camille. Mr. and Mrs. McClintock are both members of the Baptist church.
McElroy, Isaac R., the present effi- cient city clerk of Meridian, of which place he is ex-postmaster, is one of the well known and distinctively popular citizens of this section of the State and he has been a prominent figure in its political affairs for a number of years past. Mr. McElroy was born near Alamuch, Lauderdale county, Miss., in 1864, and he was reared to maturity on the home plantation, the while duly availing himself of the advantages of the common schools of the locality. At the age of twenty years he took up his residence in the city of Meridian, the county seat, where he served as deputy in the office of the clerk of the circuit court about six years, after which he was in the railway mail service until 1887, when he was elected city clerk. To this office he was re-elected in 1889 and again in 1891. In 1893 he was appointed postmaster of Meridian, by President Cleveland, and he ably administered the affairs of this office for his term of four years. Later he served as city tax assessor, and in 1900 he was again elected to the office of city clerk, to which he was re-elected in 1902 and of which he has since continued in tenure. He is a stalwart in the camp of the Democratic party and was formerly and is at present a member of its executive committee for Mississippi. Mr. McElroy is a Royal Arch Mason and a Knight of Pythias. He is also a mem- ber of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Modern Wood- men of America. He and his family are members of the Methodist church. Mr. McElroy and wife are the parents of the following children : Mary, born Nov. 16, 1887; Bessie, born Sept. 26, 1889; and Louise, born Sept. 16, 1892.
McEachern, Charles G., M. D., who is established in the successful practice of his profession in Mosspoint, Jackson county, was born in Vaiden, Carroll county, Miss., Jan. 24, 1875, being a son of Angus T. and Guerring (Shipp) McEachern, both of whom were likewise born and reared in Carroll county, where they still maintain their home. Angus T. McEachern was a valiant soldier in the Confed- erate ranks during the Civil war, and he is now engaged in farming, being one of the honored and influential citizens of Carroll county.
-
547
BIOGRAPHICAL
Dr. McEachern secured his rudimentary educational discipline in the public schools, after which he had the advantages of the un- rivalled United States military academy at West Point, where he remained three years. His specific training for the work of his profession was secured in the medical department of the University of Nashville, Tenn., from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1899, duly receiving his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. For the ensuing five years he was engaged in practice in his native town of Vaiden, and in the spring of 1904 he came to Mosspoint and opened an office, while he has already built up an excellent practice throughout this section of Jackson county and is held in high regard as an able member of his profession and as a loyal and public-spirited citizen. The doctor is a member of the American medical association, the Tri-State medical society, the Mississippi medical society and the Jackson county medical society." His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church, and he is iden- tified with the Masonic fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.