Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — The Late General McClurg. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Late General McClurg.

'1 ue death of General Alexander C. McClurg removes one more member of the dwindling group of old citizens who helped to raise Chicago from the rank of a sma'l city to that of a great one. Nearly forty-two years of his life were spent in Chicago. Both his public services and his private enterprise have been such as to give him a well deserved place on the city’s roll of honor. General McClurg’s military title was earned in many a hot battle in the Valley of the Cumberland. He enlisted as a private in a volunteer company which he assisted in organizing in Chicago, and he won his way upward through various grades to that of a brigadier general by brevet. He proved his soldierly qualities at Chickamauga and Chattanooga and in other great battles in that region,

and he marched with Sherman from Atlanta to the sea as a chief of staff in the Fourteenth Army Corps. His book store in Chicago has for years been a congenial center for book lovers fcnd the "saints’ and sinners’ corner” has made its way into literature. His standards as a publisher were high and his business methods were conservative and honorable, says the Chicago Tribune.

GEN. A. C. M’CLURG.