Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Claypool, Perry Amos 
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Author: 1883 US Bio Dictionary

Morris

Perry Amos Claypool was born in Perry township, Brown county, Ohio, June 5, 
1815, and was therefore four years the senior of his brother, Lawrence W., 
whose sketch can be found in this volume. At the age of twenty he was married 
to Miss Mary Halstead, in their native place in Ohio, and brought his young 
wife with him to the new home on the ever-advancing frontier, in 1834, 
settling in Wauponsee with the rest of the family.

Like his father and brother, and his ancestors before him, he was a man of 
great energy, and foremost everywhere among his fellows. Although young, his 
fellow-citizens conferred upon him the responsible office of assessor and 
treasurer of Grundy county, which position he filled at the time of his death. 
He was killed instantly by the kick of a horse, at the age of thirty-two, 
leaving a wife and four children, all of whom still survive.

page 633.


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Source: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of 
Eminent and Self-Made Men, Illinois Volume; Chicago and New York: American 
Biographical Publishing Company, H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Company, Proprietors, 1883

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