MCCLAIN, WILLIAM THOMAS: 1845-1937.
Born in Scott County, Ind., on May 31, 1845, William Thomas McClain was the son of the Rev. Matthew and Emily A. Swincher McClain. He was educated in Scott County schools, in an academy at Madison, Ind., and took a commercial course in an Indianapolis business college.
The McClain family moved to Marion County, Ind., about 1865 and settled on a farm in Pike township. William married Frances A. Case on Feb. 6, 1867. She died in 1920.
McClain was organizer and for many years secretary -treasurer of the Farmers Mutual Insurance Company of Marion County. He died at the home of a son in Indianapolis on Apr. 28, 1937.
Information from Memoirs of Indianapolis and Marion County and the INDIANAPOLIS STAR for May 1, 1937.
- Life and Labors of the Rev. Matthew McClain, with
Recollections and Events Through a Life of Seventy Years.
Indianapolis, 1876.
