Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Clanton, E. J. 1808 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

E. J. CLANTON, a fruit-drier at Woodland, is a son of J. M. and Mary (Riggs)
Clanton, the former a native of Tennessee, born in 1808, a farmer by trade and
now living in Woodland, at the age of eighty-one years, and his mother, a native
of Kentucky, born in 1810, died in Woodland in 1867. They came to California in
1853, bringing all their children with them except the eldest son, D. R., whose
sketch appears elsewhere in this work. E. J. was born in Adams County, Illinois,
May 1, 1832. Leaving Quincy, in that county, April 1, 1853, for California, he
arrived in Yolo County, September 17. His present home, just outside of the
limits of Woodland, on Main street, consists of forty acres, on which he raises
grapes and other fruits and dries raisins, at the rate of about thirty tons a
year. Besides, he dries one ton of apricots and a small quantity of Bartlett pears.

  Mr. Clanton was first married in 1863, to M. A. Kelsay. Their children were:
Josephine, now the wife of James England and residing in Lakeport, Lake County;
and Jennie A., who married D. G. Hartman and lives near Dunnigan, Yolo County.
His present wife, nee Mary D. Kettle, was born in Indiana in 1847. Her parents
are now living in Missouri. Mr. and Mra. Clanton were married in Callaway
County, that State, September 10, 1874. Mr. Clanton is a member of Woodland
Lodge, No. 111, I. O. O. F.


Additional Comments:
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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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