BIO: GRIFFIN, Mrs. Alice McClure, Campbell Co., KY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contributed for use in US GenWeb Archives by the Kentucky Biography Project Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 Subject: BIO: GRIFFIN, Mrs. Alice McClure, Campbell Co., KY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************************************************************* USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net. ******************************************************************************* Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, KY. and J. A. & U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847. Volume 1. Reprinted 1968. Jefferson County. The Poets and Poetry of Kentucky, page 596. MRS. ALICE McCLURE GRIFFIN, Nee McClure, was a native of Newport, Ky., where her father was famous for his benefactions and public liberality when the wheel of fortune made him suddenly wealthy. Since her marriage to George W. Griffin (himself an author and writer of some distinction) her home has been in Louisville, except when absent with her husband in Europe, while he was consul to Copenhagen. A volume of "Poems by Alice McClure Griffin," 126 pages, 12mo., was published at Cincinnati, in 1864; they were all written when the author was between fourteen and twenty years of age. [note: Poems shown: "Voice Of The Steamlet" and "Wandering Stars."] *******************************************************************************