The McClune Family of Clarion, Pennsylvania

McClune, a native of Indiana county, Pennsylvania, and a scion of fine old Scotch-Irish ancestry, was engaged in farming operations in Indiana county during his entire active career. He married and had a son:

1. Reed McClune, of whom further.

(II) Reed McClune

Reed, son of McClune, was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1813. He passed his boyhood and youth on his father’s farm in Indiana county, and later learned the trade of millwright. When a young man he came to Clarion county and settled in the vicinity of Sligo, working for the Craigs and making his home with that family for a time. He was engaged in the work of millwright until a very old age. After his marriage he established the family home at the mouth of Piney creek and there resided until the outbreak of the civil war, when he moved to the Corbett farm in Piney township, near Madison Furnace. Subsequently he purchased a farm near Reidsburg and still later bought the McCalment farm on Piney creek, on which estate he died about 1900. He farmed and worked at his trade of millwright and also was a draughtsman, putting up many barns and repairing blast furnaces. In politics he was a Republican, but never aspired to public office. Mr. McClune married Phoebe, daughter of Edward and Sarah Corbett, who were connected with the early Corbetts of Clarion. There were ten children in the Corbett family, as follows:

1. James Corbett, was a cabinetmaker in Clarion county during his active life
2. John Corbett, was a farmer in the vicinity of Asheville, Ohio
3. Gerardus Corbett, was a farmer near Columbus, Ohio
4. Miles Corbett, was a frontiersman and miner in Nevada, where he died
5. Allen Wilson Corbett, killed in the battle of Fredericksburg in the civil war
6. Phoebe Corbett, aforementioned, married Mr. McClune
7. Sarah Ann Corbett, became the wife of Jacob King, and died in Reynoldsville
8. Phinetta Corbett, widow of Robert Mills and lives at Madison Furnace
9. Susan Corbett, married Lindsay Wray and died in Chicago
10. Wynkoop Corbett, was a roamer and died somewhere in the west.

Mr. and Mrs. McClune had twelve children:

1. Sarah Ann McClune, died young.
2. John Q. McClune, died young.
3. Mary McClune, also died young.
4. James McClune, a farmer and lumberman in Limestone township, Clarion county, Pennsylvania.
5. Charles Reed McClune, mentioned below.
6. Manela McClune, wife of J. O. Delp; they live in Kane, Pennsylvania.
7. Morrison McClune, a machinist and millwright; resides at Galeton, Potter county, Pennsylvania.
8. Craig McClune, a carpenter, now living in Clarion.
9. Phoebe McClune, widow of James Smathers; lives in Monroe township, Clarion county, Pennsylvania.
10. Alla McClune, widow of James Ogden; lives near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
11. Miles McClune, a sawyer and farmer near Clarion.
12. Rosa McClune, died young.

Mr. and Mrs. Reed McClune were devout members of the Baptist church in their religious faith.

(III) Charles Reed McClune

Charles Reed, son of Reed and Phoebe (Corbett) McClune, was born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1844. He was educated in the old “8 square” schoolhouse in Piney township. On August 1, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, Tenth Pennsylvania Reserves. Later he was transferred to the One Hundred and Ninety-first Regiment, Company I, and he served in the war until June 1, 1865, when he received his honorable discharge. He participated in the conflicts at South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Appomattox Court House, Gettysburg, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Hatchers Run and the Wilderness campaign. He was wounded by a bursting shell at Fredericksburg and sent to the hospital at Washington, D. C., where he remained for six weeks. He was never captured. After the close of the war he returned to Clarion county and for one year worked at boatbuilding on the Clarion river. In 1867 he went to the oil fields at Pleasantville and from there to Foster Island. In 1871 he came back to Clarion county and from that year until 1905 was engaged in the lumbering business. He operated in the forests of Clarion county, built boats, and with his partner employed an average of twenty men all the year round. In 1904 Mr. McClune removed to Callensburg and here purchased some fine residence property. He has lived retired since 1905, but still retains a moneyed interest in the lumber business with which he was identified for so many years. He is a stockholder in the Citizens Trust Company at Clarion and has some oil interests in this section of the state. In politics he accords an unswerving allegiance to the Republican party, in the local councils of which he is an active factor. He has served on the Callensburg school board for the past five years, and has also been a member of the city council. He and his wife are members of the Reformed church, to whose good works they are most liberal contributors.

Mr. McClune married, July 30, 1871, Levina E. Reese, born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1844, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Barrett) Reese. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. McClune was Andrew Reese, who was born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was married and whence he came to Clarion county, Pennsylvania, engaging in agricultural pursuits. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. McClune were old residents of Farmington township, where the Grandfather Barrett was a farmer. Thomas Reese was a Democrat in politics, and he and his wife were members of the German Reformed church. He met death by drowning in the Clarion river, and his widow, who never remarried, died about 1885. There were ten children in the Reese family, namely:

1. John Reese
2. Susan Reese
3. Amanda Reese
4. Mary Reese
5. Andrew Reese
6. Levina E. Reese (Mrs. McClune)
7. Sophia Reese, wife of Aaron Hartman, resides in Clarion township
8. Sarah Reese, married Alexander Over, lives in Licking township
9. Elizabeth Reese, twin of Sarah, wife of William Clark, of Nebraska
10. Thomas Jefferson Reese, married Clara Weeter, lives in Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. McClune have two children:

1. Sarah Elizabeth McClune, born June 12, 1873; wife of Elmer Hale, of Licking township; they have three children:
   1. Walter Hale
   2. Reed Hale
   3. Herbert Hale.
2. Blanche Irene McClune, born December 22, 1875; wife of Merl Wensel, a railroad conductor; they live in East Brady, Clarion county, Pennsylvania, and have three children:
   1. Herbert Wensel
   2. DeVere Wensel
   3. Elizabeth Wensel.

See: Genealogy of the Allegheny Valley Pennsylvania

Source

Jordan, J. W. 1840-1921. (1913). Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co.

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