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History of the Great Lakes
Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II
Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

           [214-215]

                  ROBERT McCLURE, of Detroit, first engineer, and who
               perished on the Chicora January 21, 1895, had been with the
               Graham & Morton Transportation Company two years, and was
               one of the best known and most skillful marine engineers on
               the chain of lakes. He was forty-nine years of age, and had
               sailed on all the great lakes except Ontario.
                  ROBERT McCLURE was born November 3, 1845. He served in
               various positions on the Mississippi river until the war
               broke out. He came from New Orleans as far as Cincinnati,
               Ohio, and enlisted in the first Kentucky regiment which was
               formed while Kentucky remained neutral. He went through the
               campaign in West Virginia, and served afterward in the
               brigade commanded by GENERAL NELSON. He was in the battle
               of Shiloh (NELSON'S division), South Perryville, and at
               Stone river. He was severely wounded and received his
               discharge in 1863, and from that time he sailed on the
               lakes on the following steamers: The City of Sandusky, the
               Marine City (burned in 1880 while he was engineer), the
               Saginaw until about 1887, when he was employed up till 1890
               in the United States local inspector's office at Detroit. He
               then went to Tacoma. Wash., to put an engine, made in
               Detroit, in a boat built at Tacoma, on which he was engineer
               until January 1, 1891, and running between Portland, Ore.,
               and Tacoma. He then returned to Detroit, and was on the
               steamer Metropolis, until the Chicora, which was being
               built, was finished, when he then entered MR. GRAHAM'S
               employ.  MR. McCLURE left a widow and five sons: ALBERT V.,
               GEORGE I., CHARLES F., ROBERT and HAROLD; also two brothers,
               GEORGE I. McCLURE, of No. 523 Trumbull avenue, and WILLIAM
               J. McCLURE, engineer of the City of Chicago.
                  "No better or more trustworthy man ever lived than ROBERT
               McCLURE," MR. GRAHAM said. His death caused widespreadsad-
               ness among vesselmen and sailors around the lakes, as well
               as at his home and Chicago, where he had many friends.
                  His brother, GEORGE I. McCLURE, in speaking of his
               brother to his children, says: "Your father was a man whose
               life was marked by a strong sense of duty, in the discharge
               of which he was ever faithful to his trust. I know of no
               higher compliment to be paid to any man's memory than to be
               able to say he was ever faithful."


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