One of the pioneer families of Louisa county and Morning Sun is represented in the banking circles of this town in the person of Edward Logan McClurkin, whose birth occurred on the 20th of August, 1857. He is the son of the late Henry and Nancy J. (Logan) McClurkin, the father a native of Ohio and the mother of Indiana. The preliminary education of Edward McClurkin was acquired in the public schools of his native city, the course of which he completed in 1876, being one of the first graduates from the high school. Subsequently he attended the State University at Iowa City for a year and a half. Returning home he assisted his father in the store and post office, where he remained until 1886. He then joined his brother-in-law, William Beck, in establishing the Exchange Bank, of which institution he is now the cashier. Mr. McClurkin was united in marriage on the 10th of November, 1881, to Miss Cassie A. Beck, a daughter of Conrad and Sophia Beck, natives of Germany but for many years' residents of Des Moines County. Mr. and Mrs. McClurkin hold membership in the United Presbyterian church, and his political support he grants to the candidates of the Republican Party. He has always been quite prominently identified with the political activities of the community and has several times served as mayor, while he has three times represented his district in the state legislature. A public-spirited, progressive citizen and capable business man Mr. McClurkin stands high in the esteem of the general community, where he has spent practically the entire period of his life and where the comrades of his youth are the friends of his manhood.

One of the pioneer families of Louisa county and Morning Sun is represented in the banking circles of this town in the person of Edward Logan McClurkin, whose birth occurred on the 20th of August, 1857. He is the son of the late Henry and Nancy J. (Logan) McClurkin, the father a native of Ohio and the mother of Indiana. The preliminary education of Edward McClurkin was acquired in the public schools of his native city, the course of which he completed in 1876, being one of the first graduates from the high school. Subsequently he attended the State University at Iowa City for a year and a half. Returning home he assisted his father in the store and post office, where he remained until 1886. He then joined his brother-in-law, William Beck, in establishing the Exchange Bank, of which institution he is now the cashier. Mr. McClurkin was united in marriage on the 10th of November, 1881, to Miss Cassie A. Beck, a daughter of Conrad and Sophia Beck, natives of Germany but for many years' residents of Des Moines County. Mr. and Mrs. McClurkin hold membership in the United Presbyterian church, and his political support he grants to the candidates of the Republican Party. He has always been quite prominently identified with the political activities of the community and has several times served as mayor, while he has three times represented his district in the state legislature. A public-spirited, progressive citizen and capable business man Mr. McClurkin stands high in the esteem of the general community, where he has spent practically the entire period of his life and where the comrades of his youth are the friends of his manhood.

One of the pioneer families of Louisa county and Morning Sun is represented in the banking circles of this town in the person of Edward Logan McClurkin, whose birth occurred on the 20th of August, 1857. He is the son of the late Henry and Nancy J. (Logan) McClurkin, the father a native of Ohio and the mother of Indiana. The preliminary education of Edward McClurkin was acquired in the public schools of his native city, the course of which he completed in 1876, being one of the first graduates from the high school. Subsequently he attended the State University at Iowa City for a year and a half. Returning home he assisted his father in the store and post office, where he remained until 1886. He then joined his brother-in-law, William Beck, in establishing the Exchange Bank, of which institution he is now the cashier. Mr. McClurkin was united in marriage on the 10th of November, 1881, to Miss Cassie A. Beck, a daughter of Conrad and Sophia Beck, natives of Germany but for many years' residents of Des Moines County. Mr. and Mrs. McClurkin hold membership in the United Presbyterian church, and his political support he grants to the candidates of the Republican Party. He has always been quite prominently identified with the political activities of the community and has several times served as mayor, while he has three times represented his district in the state legislature. A public-spirited, progressive citizen and capable business man Mr. McClurkin stands high in the esteem of the general community, where he has spent practically the entire period of his life and where the comrades of his youth are the friends of his manhood.