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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of Clyde I. McCUMBER 

Transcribed exactly according to the original complete text by Joan Achille and Alice Stipak. 

[Surnames: BEARCE, LEE, MAGUIRE, MCCUMBER, PRICKETT] 

[Page 984] 

    
McCUMBER, Clyde I., D. D. S., who has entered upon a successful dental career in Lewistown, Fulton County, Ill., was born in Lewistown, June 21, 1882, a son of John and Elizabeth (Prickett) McCumber, residents of Lewistown. The subject of this sketch spent his boyhood on a farm, meanwhile receiving his mental training in the district schools in his neighborhood and the Lewistown public schools. On completing his studies there he decided to adopt the profession of dentistry, and in 1901 entered the Dental Department of the Northwestern University, Chicago, where for three years he applied himself diligently to the course there prescribed. Graduating with the class of 1904, he returned home and became associated in dental practice with Dr. J. R. Maguire. In the fall of that year he purchased the interest of Dr. Maguire and since then has practiced his profession alone with success. 
    
On Sept. 10, 1904, Dr. McCumber was united in marriage with Mary Edna Lee, who was born August 21, 1883, and is a daughter of Frank and Elizabeth (Bearce) Lee, of Lewistown. Mrs. McCumber has received a thorough literary and musical education and is gifted with many graces of mind and character. Both her own family and that of her husband have long been identified with the best element in Fulton County. In politics Mr. McCumber is a Republican and fraternally is affiliate with the Knights of Pythias. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.