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Subject: Tn-Montgomery Co. Bios (Drane)
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Montgomery County TN Archives Biographies.....Drane, William McClure 1866 -
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Author: Will T. Hale

WILLIAM McCLURE DRANE. Among the notable Tennessee families none has been
more conspicuous in the business life of Montgomery county than the Drane
family, which for three generations has produced citizens of a solid integrity
and business men who have been able to assume a large part in the work and
commerce of this portion of the state.

William McClure Drane, who was born in Montgomery county, May 23, 1866, has
for a number of years been identified with the manufacturing and commercial
activities of Clarksville. He is a son of the late William M. and Amelia
(Haddox) Drane. His father was born in Clarksville, September 29, 1826, and the
mother was born in Logan county, Kentucky, February 22, 1836. In the death of
the senior William Drane, which occurred December 9, 1909, Montgomery county and
Clarksville lost a business man and farmer of exceptional ability and
achievement. As a tobacco dealer he was for years one of the largest in the
county. He was a member of the Episcopal church. He was the son of Walter H.
Drane, who was born in Montgomery county, Maryland, in 1798, accompanied his
parents to Kentucky, where he studied medicine at Transylvania University, and
after a brief practice engaged in the tobacco business at Clarksville, where he
acquired a fortune. He married Eliza McClure, whose birth occurred in Montgomery
county, Tennessee, in 1808, and her father, Hugh McClure, was one of the
pioneers who laid the foundations of civilization and industry in this part of
Tennessee.

William M. Drane had an excellent preparation for his business career, and
was graduated from the Southwest Presbyterian University in the class of 1889.
For several years he was bookkeeper in the Northern Bank of Clarksville, and
then engaged in the machine and foundry business, in which he still has some
interest. He is now the head of an important establishment dealing in
agricultural implements.

December 14, 1899, Mr. Drane married Miss Mary Luckett, daughter of T. D. and
Maria (Gracey) Luckett. Her father was born in Kentucky, November 2, 1843, and
is now in the tobacco business at Louisville. Mr. and Mrs. Drane have two
children, Roberta, born March 14, 1911, and W. M. Jr., October 4, 1912. Their
church is the Episcopal, and Mr. Drane during his college career was a member of
the Kappa Sigma fraternity.


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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in
commerce, industry and modern activities
by Will T. Hale
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1913


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