Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Clyne, John T 1857 - 
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Author: Portrait & Biographical Album, 1890

JOHN T. CLYNE is one of the bright and enterprising young business men of Will 
County, being closely identified with its stock interests. He is connected 
with S. W. Simmons in the breeding and handling of trotting stock and they are 
the proprietors of the Stone City Stables in Joliet, where they have a fine 
stud of horses. They issue the Will County Horseman, of which our subject is 
the business manager. They are making a great success of this paper published 
in the interests of the turfmen, as it already has a good circulation. It is a 
four-column, eight-page quarto, having been enlarged from a four-page sheet. 
Our subject comes of sterling New York ancestry and is a native of that State, 
born in Cohoes, Albany County, December 8, 1857, to James and Catherine Clyne. 
His mother was the daughter of John and Mary Quinn, of Washington County, N. 
Y., who were of Irish descent. The father of our subject was the son of Thomas 
and Margaret (McCormick) Clyne, the latter a native of Oneida County, and the 
old homestead on which she was born is still in possession of the family. Her 
ancestry came to America in Colonial times. Thomas Clyne was born in County 
Longford, Ireland, his father having gone there from Germany during the exodus 
from that country. Our subject was reared in the city of his birth until he 
attained the age of nine years and there laid the foundation of his education. 
At that age he commenced working in the knitting factories and was thus 
employed until 1875, when at the age of seventeen, on a certain Sunday 
evening, he and his "chum" started out to make their fortune in the West. His 
friend, Martin Mahon, is now a wealthy man in San Francisco, Cal. When our 
subject thus ventured out into the world he had but a few dollars in his 
pocket, and after traveling some days he secured a job in a sash and blind 
shop at ninety cents per day. He worked there two weeks and then left to learn 
the trade of a bricklayer, but the contractor skipped the county and left him 
in the lurch. Fortunately he had a friend who could and did lend him $5, and 
he made his way to Lockport, where he obtained work in the harvest field and 
was there employed nine days, which was his first experience of farm life, and 
for the next three years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits, the last two 
working for Judge Simmons, the father of his partner. Feeling the need of a 
better education he entered a good school at Valparaiso, Ind., and was closely 
engaged in study there for a year. He then returned to Plainfield and worked 
for the same man for a time and then resumed his scholastic pursuits and was 
in school for a year, paying his own way in the meantime. When he had 
completed his education he again went back to Plainfield and there took part 
in a ceremony which has had an important bearing on his after life as he was 
at that time married to Miss Anna L., daughter of John and Hannah McClosky. 
She is an earnest Christian and a consistent member of the Methodist Church. 
Of her happy union with our subject three sons have been born—Mead, Wade, and 
Vard. After marriage our subject utilized his education by teaching school in 
DuPage. He subsequently took charge of the business of J. W. Funk, who was a 
great horse shipper and contractor. After that Mr. Clyne was appointed to take 
charge of the County Poor House, under Judge Simmons, and was keeper for three 
years, and then was made Superintendent of the Poor, and continued in that 
position from 1885 until the present time. He is now associated with S. W. 
Simmons, as before mentioned. They have a valuable stud of horses of which we 
may mention Dictator, Jr., son of Dictator and Delwood a member of the Nutwood 
family; Ali Bushaw, son of Greens Bushaw; T. B. Mount, representative of old 
Almont, No. 33; Harry and Leo McGregor, descendants of the famous Robert 
Gregor of time 2:17 1/2, and many others of considerable note. Mr. Clyne is a 
member of the A. F. & A. M., Madison Lodge, No. 175; Chapter of Joliet, No. 
27, and also belongs to the Joliet Commandery of Knight Templars, No. 4. As a 
public-spirited citizen fully alive to the best interests of his county and 
township, he is a thoroughbred Republican and takes a great interest in 
politics and has been instrumental in getting many good measures through the 
State Legislature, notably, the opening of the boulevard at Joliet. A man of 
ambitious, forceful character, well-trained intellect, and excellent habits, 
our subject is an influence for good in the community and exerts himself to 
promote its advancement. 

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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