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Clair McKelway was born at Columbia, Missouri. His father was Alexander J. McKelway, a physician who had emigrated from Scotland in early childhood, and his mother was Mary (Ryan) McKelway. In 1853, the family removed to New Jersey.
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Clair McKelway was born at Columbia, Missouri. His father was Alexander J. McKelway, a physician who had emigrated from Scotland in early childhood, and his mother was Mary (Ryan) McKelway. In 1853, the family removed to New Jersey.
The boy's education was chiefly under private tutelage. While his father was absent at the front as a surgeon in the Civil War he was instructed by his grandfather, John McKelway, who lived in Trenton. For a short time, he was a student of the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton.
Having an inclination to write, McKelway contributed to local newspapers and at the age of seventeen sent to the New York Tribune an account of the activities of Confederate sympathizers in and near Trenton, for which Horace Greeley sent a check and wrote him a letter of appreciation. Yielding to the wish of his family he studied law, but he never practised that profession and on the day after his admission to the bar in 1866 became a reporter for the New York World. In 1868 he was sent to Washington as correspondent for the World and for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. He was an editorial writer for the Eagle from 1870 to 1878 and then became editor of the Albany Argus, whose position on public questions helped to pave the way for the election of Cleveland to the presidency. After the death of Thomas Kinsella in 1884, he was made editor-in-chief of the Eagle and held that post during the remainder of his life. His writing gave distinction to the editorial page of the paper. From 1883 to 1915 he served as one of the regents of the University of the State of New York, being chancellor of the university at the time of his death.
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Quotations: "Journalism is served as loyally, bravely, unselfishly, intelligently and honestly as Church or State, army or navy, university or sovereign. "
McKelway was fearless and independent in expression, and the influence of the Eagle became national. His name and personality were identified in the public mind with his more striking editorials, which were widely quoted. He had for the background of his utterances an extensive acquaintance among public men, insight into national and local affairs, and wide reading.
Both he and the paper became thoroughly identified with Brooklyn. He was active in demanding the prosecution of John Y. McKane for the frauds in the Gravesend election in 1893, for which McKane was sentenced to imprisonment. He had rare gifts as a public speaker and was called upon to use them often. His speech on the occasion of a dinner given in his honor by the Lotos Club of New York in 1906 is printed in After Dinner Speeches at the Lotos Club.
McKelway was married in 1867 to Eleanor Hutchinson, who died in 1884. There were two sons from this marriage both of whom died before their father. In 1888 he was married to Virginia Brooks Thompson, who survived him.