Will County IL Archives Biographies.....McClaughry, Charles C 1863 - 
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Author: Portraits & Bio Sketches, 1890

CHARLES C. McCLAUGHRY, A. B. 

This young gentleman, who is now filling the position of Chief Engineer of the 
Illinois State Penitentiary, at Joliet, is a man of more than ordinary ability 
and strength and nobility of character. He was the recipient of excellent 
advantages during his boyhood and youth, made a good use of them, and 
possesses a mind well stored with useful knowledge and capable of grasping 
with firmness and with acute perception, subjects brought before him for 
consideration. With this, he has firm principles and agreeable, courteous 
manners. The subject of this brief biographical notice was born at Carthage, 
Hancock County, April 7, 1863, while his father was in the army. When eleven 
years old he came to Joliet with his parents, finishing his education at Knox 
College and being graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class 
of '85. He then entered the machine shops of the Illinois Steel Company in 
order to acquire the trade of a machinist, which he completed in that 
establishment. He was afterward connected with the firm of E. R. Brainard & 
Co., in their machine department in the penitentiary, leaving their employ 
November 1, 1889, at which time he was appointed chief engineer of the prison. 
He is a member of the Lincoln Club, an organization of young Republicans, and 
belongs to the Central Presbyterian Church. At the residence of W. C. Demmond, 
of this city, June 28, 1888, the marriage ceremony was performed which united 
the subject of this sketch and Miss Helen A., daughter of the host. The bride 
was born in this city, which has ever been her home, and where she has made 
many friends by her genial manners, intelligence and estimable character. To 
her and her husband one child has been born, who bears the name of Helen B. 
Maj. Robert W. McClaughry, the father of our subject, was Warden of the 
penitentiary in Joliet for fifteen years. He was born in Fountain Green, 
Hancock County, July 22, 1839, and remained at home on a farm until 1856. He 
then entered Monmouth College, being graduated in 1860, and remaining in the 
institution one year as Professor of Latin. Returning to Hancock County in 
1861, he settled at Carthage and became editor of the Carthage Republican. In 
response to President Lincoln's call for three hundred thousand men, he 
enlisted, in August, 1862, as a private in the One Hundred and Eighteenth 
Illinois Infantry. He was chosen Captain of Company B, and in November 
following was elected Major of the regiment. He participated in all the 
campaigns in the Gulf department, which resulted in the capture of Vicksburg, 
and in all those in Western Louisiana until June, 1864, when he was 
transferred to the pay department as Paymaster and assigned to duty at 
Springfield, Ill. He remained there until October, 1865, when he was mustered 
out of the service. Having been elected Clerk of Hancock County, Maj. 
McClaughry at once assumed the duties of that office, which he held until 
1869. During the next two years he was engaged in the stone quarry business in 
Sonora and furnished stone for the railroad bridge over the Mississippi at 
Keokuk,and also for the Government canal at the same place, and for the 
foundations of the new State Capitol at Springfield. In 1871 he went to St. 
Louis, Mo., to take charge of the St. Genevieve quarries, but the following 
year, his health failing, he returned to Monmouth, Ill., and entered the 
office of Judge Glenn, to attend to a portion of his business. There he 
remained until August 1, 1874, when he was appointed Warden of the 
penitentiary of this place. He was married, in 1862, to Miss Elizabeth Madden, 
of Monmouth, and has five children living.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 
 


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