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McCLURG, Alexander Caldwell, publisher, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. about 1835. He was graduated at Miami university, Oxford, Ohio, in 1853. He left the house of S. C. Griggs and Co., booksellers of Chicago, to enter the National army as a private, 15 August, 1862, and was subsequently commissioned captain in the 88th Illinois volunteers. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the adjutant-general's department, and chief of staff of the 14th army corps, and brevetted colonel and brigadier-general. He served to the end of the war in the Army of the Cumberland, and accompanied General Shermap in his march to the sea. After the war he returned to the book business in Chicago, becoming a partner in the firm of Jansen, McClurg and Co., and the house is now widely known under the name of A. C. McClurg and Co., booksellers and publishers. General McClurg has been a frequent contributor to periodical literature.
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