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| | Chronicles of Oklahoma |
 | | William Claudius McAlister, son of Charles A. McAlister and his wife, Emily McAlister, nee Connor, was born on September 14, 1870 on a place, which for three-fourths of a century had been the family homestead, near Tatum Station in Marlboro District, South Carolina. |
 | | The McAlisters came from Scotland in the latter part of the 18th century after the close of the Revolutionary War to North Carolina. |
 | | He had two brothers, the Honorable Archibald G. McAlister, of Phoenix, Arizona, for a number of years a member of the Supreme Court of that state, three years his junior, and the other brother, Charles Augustus McAlister, eight years his junior, resides at Macon, Georgia. |
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