Montgomery County AlArchives Photo Person.....Cleghorn, William C. P. c. 1850
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Name:               William C. P. Cleghorn

Date Of Photograph: c. 1850
Photo can be seen at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/montgomery/photos/cleghorn7472gph.jpg
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From a daguerreotype. 

Cleghorn, Wm. C. P.

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From a page of a publication identified only by
"From Biographical Souvenier of the States of
Georgia and Florida" handwritten in the top margin.
The middle biography on the page is that of
William C. P. Cleghorn.

Wm. C. P. Cleghorn was born in Edinburgh, Scotland,
Jan. 5, 1813. His father, Richard Cleghorn, was a
prominent lawyer and his mother Jean (Pierie)
Cleghorn, the eldest daughter of Commodore John
Pierie of Edinburgh. W. C. P. Cleghorn was the sixth
of a family of eight children. He was brought up in
Edinburgh and graduated from the Edinburgh College
when fifteen years of age. Very soon afterward he
became a sailor, which vocation he followed until
1834, when he settled in Jamaica, W. I., and married
his first wife their. He kept books until 1840, when
he went to New York, but remained there a short time
only, when he came south and located at Montgomery,
Ala., and in that portion of the country taught
school until 1857, when he removed to Americus, Ga.,
and followed school-teaching and bookkeeping until
1870, when he removed to Ellaville, Ga., and took
charge of a school, over which he presided for
several years. Since that time he has been retired
from active business. 
His first wife was Catherine
Delpratt, whom he married in 1834. She bore him
three children, all of whom died in infancy, and she
herself died about 1839. 
In 1841 Mr. Cleghorn
married Drady J. Barton, daughter of Benjamin Barton
of Montgomery, Ala. To this union were born six
children, viz.: William, Richard, Jane, Catherine,
Isabella and Andrew J. The second Mrs. Cleghorn died
in 1883. Mr. Cleghorn has been a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church for more than forty
years, and has been for many years a local minister.
He is a man of rare conversational powers and can
relate many incidents in his life that are
interesting to both old and young. He has been in
some seaport of every country on the globe, is one
of the best informed men of the South, and is a
Royal Arch Mason.



Additional Comments:
Although the subjects in the photo are not identified, the features of the man
closely match those of a known photo of Wm. C. P. Cleghorn. The woman is
believed to be his second wife, Drady J. BARTON, b. abt. 1816-17, d. 1883.

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