This text will be a little weird because it is a translation of a pdf file... but these are ours. I'll give you the source and you can edit it, if you want it for your files Biographies and portraits of the progressive men of Iowa: leaders ..., Volume 1 By Benjamin F. Gue, Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh http://books.google.com/books?id=QZ8UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA199&lpg=PA203&ots=F8bMPF6KXQ&dq=%22cynthia+evans+mcclure%22&output=text <http://books.google.com/books?id=QZ8UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA199&lpg=PA203&ots=F8bMPF6KXQ&dq=%22cynthia+evans+mcclure%22&output=text> McCLURE, Isaac N., is a successful merchant and influential business man of Mediapolis, Des Moines county. He was born in Des Moines county within six miles of his present home, February 1, 1844, and is the son of William McClure, a farmer in comfortable circumstances, who settled there on governmeut land in 1839. His parents were both natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio, then to Illinois at a very early day. Mr. McClure was a man of strong convictions and high moral character. They reared a family of eleven children, eight of whom are now living. One of them, William G., is now a Christian missionary in Asia. Mr. McClure died in 1864, while his wife lived to the age of 77. They lie side by side in the Kossuth cemetery and their children "arise and call them blessed.'' Their son Isaac had a good early training, learning the value of money by working on his own account in the harvest field as a boy, following the cradle at 25 cents a day. He is of Scotch-Irish descent. His mother, Cynthia Evans McClure, was of Welsh extraction. Isaac attended the country schools until 17 years of age, when the war broke out and he did not attend school any more until the winter of 1864 and 1865, when he paid his own expenses in a private school in Mt. Pleasant. The following winter, 1865, he attended the Yellow Springs academy at Kossuth, and had made such progress that the following fall be secured a teacher's certificate and taught school in the winter. In the summer he worked on a farm and ran a threshing machine in the fall, keeping this up for three years. During his last term of school in the winter of 1869, he secured a two weeks' vacation and went to Lyndon, Ross county, also superintendent of the Sunday school at Mediapolis for eighteen years past with the exception of three years. To Mr. and Mrs. McClure have been born three children, Marcus P., LoueM., and Prank E. Marcus Parrett was born April 9, 1872, and graduated in the classical course at Parsons college, Fairfleld, Iowa, in June, 1893. He spent the subsequent year in Washington, D. C., taking a special course, and there received a second degree coupled with a diploma bearing President Cleveland's signature. He taught one year in Vermont in the Green Mountains, and then being convinced he was called of God to preach the gospel, in September, 1895, he entered the McCormack's, Theological seminary in Chicago and completed the course in June, 1898. Previous to leaving the seminary he received a unanimous call to become the pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Kilbourne City, Wis., which he accepted and entered on the duties of the pastorate. In September, 1897, he was united in marriage to Stella, daughter of Hon. Wm. E. Fuller, of West Union, Iowa. To them in June, 1898, was born a son, Donald Fuller McClure. Loue Maggie was born May 19, 1875. She graduated at Parsons college in June, 1897. Miss McClure had talent as an elocutionist and she took the $20 prize in the oratorical contest in March, 189(i. In June, 1898, she was united in marriage to Rev. Herbert W. Rherd, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Milan, ill. Franklyn Evans was born November 27, 1877. He graduated in the classical course at Parsons college, June 13, 1899. He took the first pri/.e in the oratorical contest in March, 1897, and in September, 1898, received his grade from Parsons college and entered the senior class of the Occidental college of Los Angeles, Cal., where he at once took high rank. He received the first prize in the college oratorical contest in February, 1899, and in consequence was the representative of the college in the inter-collegiate oratorical contest held at Los Angeles, April 25,1899. After completing the year at Occidental college, he received his grade and returned to Parsons college and graduated with his old class, June 13, 1899. He has announced that the practice of medicine is bis chosen profession.