Reverend
James
Thomas
McClure
Born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Ancestors 
Son of Daniel Liberty McClure
and Hannah (McFarlane) McClure
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Helen Wall
— married
28 Mar 1850 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Descendants 
Father of
Lucy Hannah McClure
Died
at age 77
in Wheeling, Ohio, West Virginia
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Apr 2016
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Biography
We all have relatives we would like to have known and be able to talk with and James is one of those for me. He was born in Mifflin, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh to Daniel Liberty McClure and Hannah McFarlane. He was about 1 year old when his father died. His mother, father & siblings had moved to Mifflin from Stark County, Ohio, It appears his father became ill in Ohio and the move was so Hannah would be near her relatives in Mifflin. They are living with her brothers Robert & Thomas in the 1830 census.
James Thomas is documented as graduating from Duquesne College in Pittsburgh in 1846 at age 24. He then went to the Monongahela Presbyterian Seminary in Allegheny City, graduated and was ordained May 8 1850. (From A Manuel of the United Presbyterian Church of North America 1751-1881 by James Brown Scouller and found on Google Books). The Theological Seminary of the Associate Church is another name for the Presbyterian Seminary. The Wheeling First United Presbyterian Church prospered under his care. There is a long article about James and the church in the Wheeling Registry, volume 27, issue 178, page 5 (January 6, 1892).
One of the issues facing the church in his time was trying to reconcile Science, Darwin's theory with church doctrine. This was something that he wrote a book called Science and the Bible. I have not read this book. There are several references in the Wheeling newspaper about his education work with youths in the Wheeling area.
His health was failing in 1893 and he offered his resignation but the church decided to hire a co-pastor so he could remain. He died about three months after his wife's death on January 2, 1900, in Wheeling. All of the Wheeling family are buried at Greenwood Cemetery.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
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