Geneva County AlArchives Biographies.....McLauchlin, William C. March 6 1844 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   WILLIAM C. MCLAUCHLIN, a business man of Geneva, Ala., was born in Cumberland
county, N. C., March 6, 1844. His parents are William and Mary (McRae)
McLauchlin, the former of whom was also born in Cumberland county in 1801, and
still resides on the farm where he first saw light ninety-one years ago. Early
in life he united with the old school Presbyterian church, and has been an elder
in that denomination over sixty years. Archibald, the father of William
McLauchlin, founded the family in America, having bought and settled upon the
Cumberland county homestead in 1769. Mrs. Mary (McRae) McLaughlin, also a native
of Cumberland county, N. C., was born in 1801, was married in 1830, and has
borne her husband five children, four of whom still survive. William C.
McLauchlin was reared on the old plantation, and. attended school until about
eighteen years of age. In 1862 he enlisted in company K, Thirty-eighth North
Carolina infantry, under Col. Hoke, Gen. A. P. Hill's corps. He was mustered in
at Raleigh, May 6, 1862, was sent to the army of northern Virginia, and after
three months' service was discharged on account of ill-health. In the spring of
1861 he came to Alabama on a visit, became a member of a volunteer corps
organized for home protection, and served until May, 1865, when he was
discharged at Clayton. He then returned to North Carolina, and took a thorough
course in Little River academy, in Cumberland county, following which he taught
school three years in different parts of the state. His next occupation was the
manufacture of naval stores, in which he was engaged until 1882 in North
Carolina. He then returned to Alabama, settled at Geneva and Eunola, Geneva
county, and until 1886 continued in the manufacture of naval stores; he then
disposed of this business and went to Warrior Station, Jefferson county, and
acted as secretary and treasurer for the Watts Coal and Iron company for two
years, when he returned to Geneva, and for two years longer filled the position
of bookkeeper for J. J. Johnson. His next step was to enter the lumber business.
He built the Hurricane mill, which cuts about 3,000 feet of timber per day, and
still owns and operates it. September 1, 1892, he opened the first set of books
for Johnson's bank, of Geneva, and assumed the position of cashier of the bank,
but did not relinquish his interest in the lumber business. Mr. McLauchlin was
united in marriage in 1882 to Miss Maggie Ray, of Fayetteville, N. C., daughter
of William Ray. She was born in Cumberland county, N. C. She graduated with
first honors from the Female college of Clinton, N. C., and was married in her
thirty-seventh year. No children have been added to the family. Mr. McLauchlin
has made a success in every business venture to which he has turned his
attention, and beside his other interests, is owner of 2,000 acres of good land
near Geneva. He is a. member of Galatia lodge, No. 169, A. F. & A. M., is a
democrat, and a member of the Presbyterian church.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1037-1038
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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