Yolo-Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Clevenger, J. S. 1830 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

J. S. CLEVENGER, a retired farmer of Woodland, was born April 12, 1830, in
Bedford County, Pennsylvania, a son of Thomas and Sarah (Star) Clevenger. The
father, a blacksmith by trade, but a farmer mostly by occupation, moved in 1832
to Morrow County, Ohio, and in 1854 to Page County, Iowa, where he lived seven
years, and next to a point near Erie, Neosha County, Kansas, where he remained
until his death. The subject of this notice was brought up on a farm in Ohio,
and when eighteen years of age he started out in the world for himself, learning
the carpenter and joiner's trade, in Morrow County, Ohio, and followed the same
until he came to California, in 1863. He crossed the plains with a horse team,
arriving in August. He took up a claim in Yolo County, on Willow Slough, which
he improved and converted into one of the best farms in the county. After
residing there twenty years he sold it and moved to Woodland, where he now
resides, on Elm street, where he has built a good residence. He purchased
another farm, which he afterward sold. He has done considerable work at his
trade, at intervals. He is an energetic and busy man, and has done his share in
the development of the interests of Yolo County, and even his children exhibit
the same faculty.

  He was married March 11, 1856 to Miss Victoria J. Martin, in Clarinda, Page
County, Iowa, a native of North Carolina, born December 27, 1837, and they have
five children, two of whom are living, F. N. and O. E. The former is at present
a school-teacher in Yolo County and studying law. He was born in Petaluma,
Sonoma County, California, October 11, 1864. O. E. was born in Yolo County,
February 17, 1870; he is at present in the wood and feed business.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

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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