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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