Claude Elmer McPherrin

Claude Elmer McPherrin served as a correspondent from (ca.) 1951 thru his death in 1972 at the TW exclusive Des Moines Meeting Room, in Iowa.

He was born in 1880 in Bulls Gap, Hawkins, Tennessee, where his father and grandfather were also born, known in 1880 as District 14. His father was Louis Jackson McPherrin, a dry goods salesman who was born in 1851. His mother was Rebecca M. Hann McPherrin, born in Tennessee in 1854.

By 1900, Claude and his family had relocated to Bloomington, Illinois, where it would be assumed they were introduced to the PB, via the Bloomington Meeting Room. His parents died in Bloomington, his mother first in 1917, and his father followed in 1938. In 1920, Claude was employed as an assistant manager of a lumberyard in Bloomington, and by 1930 was an accountant at the same firm.

By 1930, Claude was married to Irma Vivian Brown (b. 1892 Runnells, Polk, IA), the daughter of John Wilber Brown (b. 1859 Wyacondah, Davis, IA - d. 1906 Vandalia, Jasper, IA and Rua Elizabeth Means Brown (b. 1862 Prairie City, Jasper, IA - d. 1905 Vandalia, IA).

Sources

• 1951-1966 TW AAB's
• Ancestry.com
• Findagrave.com