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James Gore King McClure (S&B 1870)

Education. Phillips-Andover. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Brothers of Unity. Delta Kappa. Phi Theta Psi. Psi Upsilon. Phi Beta Kappa.

University preacher at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and many other universities and colleges.[4]

Also preached at boys’ preparatory schools and delivered the Baccalaureate at Culver Military Academy for twenty-two successive years.[4]

Author: History of New Scotland (N. T.) PresbyterianChurch (1876), Possibilities (1896), The Man Who Wanted to Help(1897), The Great Appeal (1898), Environment (1899), For Hearts That Hope (1900), A Mighty Means of Usefulness (1901), Living forthe Best (1903), The Growing Pastor (1904), Loyalty, the Soul of Religion (1905), Supreme Things (1907), sermons in series entitled Modern Sermons by World Scholars (1909), Grandfather’s Stones, I(1926), Grandfather’s Stories, II (1928), History of the Presbyterian.[4] Theological Seminary, Chicago (1929), The Supreme Booh of Man-kind (1930), and The Victorious Jesus (1931).[4]

Contributed to ThePresbyterian Advance, The Westminster Teacher, The International Journal of Religious Education, The McCormick Seminary AlumniBook List, and The Continent;

Member Chicago Presbytery at time of death.[4]

1930 to 1932 - Deputy governor general of Society of Mayflower Descendants.[4]

1929 - Gave the Bross lectures at Lake Forest University; D.D. Lake Forest 1888 and Yale and Princeton 1906, LL.D. Illinois College 1904 and LakeForest 1929;

1919 to 1930 - Governor of the Illinois Society.[4]

1905 to 1928 - President McCormick Theological Seminary (now Presbyterian Theological Seminary), Chicago and since 1928, president emeritus.[3][4]

1897 to 1901 - President of Lake Forest University.[3]

1892 to 1893, President Pro Tem, 1897 to 1901, President, 1889 to 1923, Trustee, Lake Forest University

1881 to 1905 - Pastor Presbyterian Church, Lake Forest.[4]

1880 to 1881 - Preached in various places in New York and Rhode Island.[4]

19 Nov 1879 - Married, in Westerly, R. I., Phebe Ann,daughter of Nathan Fellows Dixon (B.A. Brown 1833; Yale School of Law 1835-36) and Harriet (Swan) Dixon, and granddaughter of Rev. Roswell R. Swan (B.A. 1802). Children: Annie Dixon (B.A Wellesley 1902), the wife of Dumont Clarke (B.A. Princeton 1905,M.A. 1920); James Gore King, Jr. (B.A. S&B 1906; D.Sc. Berea 1929);Harriet (Mrs. R. Douglas Stuart), Archibald (B.A. S&B 1912; honorary B.D. Presbyterian Theological Seminary 1917) (died in 1931); and Nathan Dixon, ex-18. [4]

1879 to 1880 - Traveled abroad.[4]

10 Dec 1874 - Ordained to Presbyterian ministry.[4]

1874 to 1879 - Pastor PresbyterianChurch, New Scotland, N. Y.[4]

1873 - Graduated at Princeton Theological Seminaty 1873.[4]

1870 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]

Died 18 Jan 1932, from carcinoma. Age 83

Son … James Gore King McClure Jr. (S&B 1906)

Son … Archibald McClure (S&B 1912)

[1] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[2] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley

[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen

[4] - Yale Obituary - Page 18 / On the page 16.