Leroy McAfee

Early life Leroy Magnum McAfee was born on December 17, 1837, in North Carolina. He graduated with first honors from the University of North Carolina in 1859; President James Buchanan was the featured speaker at the graduation.

Career McAfee worked as an attorney in Shelby, North Carolina. He was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. dedicated his historical novel, The Clansman, "to the memory of a Scotch-Irish leader of the South, my uncle, Colonel Leroy McAfee, Grand Titan of the invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan."

McAfee died in 1873 of tuberculosis ("consumption"), and he was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in York, South Carolina. The project was initially met with enthusiasm,