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| | JAMES McCLURG, of Newton Stewart, County Galloway (now Wigton), Scotland, was the father of Dr |
 | | They soon went to Chester county, Pennsylvania and in 1772, his name is on the list of "land owners and taxpayers."After the death of her husband, Agnes, with her children, removed to a homestead near Oxford, Pennsylvania, where, in 1811, her name appears on the church records, among the heads of families. |
 | | In 1839 he bought "a plantation of one hundred and fourteen acres in West Nottingham township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, (near Glenroy), subject to the payment of the original patent." In religion he was a Presbyterian, in politics, a whig, and later a republican; and in his earlier life, was an enthusiastic militiaman. |
 | | John Russell McClurg, M. D., was the oldest child of the foregoing; and born in Lower Oxford township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, Saturday, September 23, 1820. |
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