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Source for: Matthew McClurken, 22 AUG 1822 - 14 AUG 1908
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Name source: S204 Rootsweb Freepages. ancientage database
Birth source: S204 Rootsweb Freepages.lvmerrills database
Text: 8/26/1823 Rootsweb Freepages, ancientage database; 8/26/1823.
Birth source: S263Page: June 2005, Volume 15, Issue 2
Text: Mathew MC CLURKEN was the first child born within the 1908 city limits of Sparta, Ill His father was James McClurken . He was born in a log cabin on August 26, 1822. The log cabin was tom down and a new structure built, on the same sight 'in town'. The first school Mr McClurken attended was taught by David Brown one and a half miles south of his home. He then attended school at Eden, Ill where Adam Wylie taught and the town schools taught by Benjamin Wham, Dr Beggs, Dr Petton and B G Roots. For some time he was engaged in the mercantile business in St. Louis, Missouri, with his brothers.
Returning to Sparta, III in 1850 he entered the Sparta Flour Milling Co., where he was a wheat buyer for six years while cultivating a farm from1856 to 1860. He then engaged for thirty-six years in the manufacture of woolen goods, 'McClurken' s Woolen Mills'. He served on the city Council.
Birth source: S19Text: Mathew McClurken
Occupation source: S33Page: 161
Residence source: S33Page: 161
Event source: S201Page: pages 327 - 333
Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Volume 46. pages 327 - 333
Event source: S263Page: June 2005, Volume 15, Issue 2
Text: Mathew MC CLURKEN was the first child born within the 1908 city limits of Sparta, Ill His father was James McClurken . He was born in a log cabin on August 26, 1822. The log cabin was tom down and a new structure built, on the same sight 'in town'. The first school Mr McClurken attended was taught by David Brown one and a half miles south of his home. He then attended school at Eden, Ill where Adam Wylie taught and the town schools taught by Benjamin Wham, Dr Beggs, Dr Petton and B G Roots. For some time he was engaged in the mercantile business in St. Louis, Missouri, with his brothers.
Returning to Sparta, III in 1850 he entered the Sparta Flour Milling Co., where he was a wheat buyer for six years while cultivating a farm from1856 to 1860. He then engaged for thirty-six years in the manufacture of woolen goods, 'McClurken' s Woolen Mills'. He served on the city Council.
Death source: S204 Rootsweb Freepages. lvmerrills database
Occupation source: S33Page: 157
Occupation source: S266Page: page 23
Text: SPARTA WOOLEN MILLS, Jas. L. McClurken, Proprietor.In reviewing the commercial resources of any city, her manufacturing enterprises naturally occupy the position of greatest prominence and are brought under the writer's earliest consideration. The Sparta Woolen Mills were one of the first Industries to be established in this section, having been started by Mr. M. McClurken, father of the present propiietor, in 1850; they have been under James McClurken's management since 1891. The building in which the business is now located is not that in which it was first carried on, but the original Sparta Mills are now used by Mr. McClurken senior, as a wool warehouse; the present building was erected a few years ago. It Is a three story brick, about 80 x160 area and has been planned to permit interior arrangement with the greatest economy of space and facility of operation. The equipment consists of what is technically known as one "set", or a "system" of carding, twisting and spinning machinery, which has a capacity for turning out about 200 lbs. of yarn daily, and eight powerlooms of various widths for the production of woolen goods. All the machinery is driven by a steam engine of 30 horse power; from twenty to twenty-five hands are employed in the mill. Mr. McClurkcn fully maintains the old established business connections, and has at the same time developed and widely extended his trade. In Its present eminently successful position, the mill adds materially to the reputatatlon of the city.
Residence source: S16Text: Matthew McClurken
Residence source: S19Text: Mathew McClurken
Residence source: S8Text: Matthew McClurken
Catherine McClurken