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From: Barbara Zaslow <>
Subject: Re: [MCELROY-L] Atkins McLemore
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:09:33 -0500
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I was wondering the same thing. My ggmother (not a McElroy) was a
McLemore and I have a great deal of info about the McLemores and I have
never seen any evidence that the McLemore and McElroy (Muckleroys) are
related.

Barb McElroy Zaslow

Betty Stokes wrote:

>How does this McLemore fit into our Muckleroy family?
>Betty
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>This is copied from the Handbook of Texas [Online]
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>format this article to print
>MCLEMORE, ATKINS JEFFERSON (1857-1929). Atkins Jefferson (Jeff) McLemore,
>journalist and legislator, the son of Robertson and Mary Howard (McEwen)
>McLemore, was born on March 13, 1857, in Maury County, Tennessee. He moved
>to Texas in
>1878 and worked as cowboy, printer, and newspaper reporter. For a time he
>prospected for gold in Colorado, New Mexico, and Mexico, then returned to
>Texas
>in 1883 to do newspaper work in San Antonio. He published a weekly paper at
>Kyle from 1883 to 1886. He moved to Corpus Christi in 1889 and established
>the
>Gulf News. From 1892 to 1896 he was a member of the Texas House of
>Representatives from the Corpus Christi district. He moved to Austin, served
>on the board
>of aldermen, and was secretary of the Democratic Executive Committee from
>1900
>to 1904. 1n 1903, with Horace W. Shelton, he founded a weekly magazine in
>Austin, State Topics, which eventually became Texas Monthly Review and State
>
>Topics.qv In 1904 McLemore published Indianola and Other Poems. He
>represented
>Texas as delegate-at-large in the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth United States
>
>congresses, 1915-19. He was defeated for reelection in 1918 and returned to
>newspaper work at Hebbronville. He ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in
>1928. He died
>at Laredo on March 4, 1929, survived by his wife, the former May Clark of
>Galveston, and a daughter.
>BIBLIOGRAPHY: Biographical Directory of the American Congress. S. G. Reed, A
>
>History of the Texas Railroads (Houston: St. Clair, 1941; rpt., New York:
>Arno, 1981). San Antonio Express, March 5, 1929.
>John D. Thompson
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