Bio of CLANCY, Albert Worthington (b.1847), Hennepin Co., MN ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. 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Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical ======================================================== ALBERT WORTHINGTON CLANCY - Vol II, pg 478-481 No man stands higher in the business circles of Minneapolis than Albert Worth-ington Clancy, who has been in charge of the Minneapolis branch of the American Book Company for years. A native of Ohio, his birth occurred in Lagrange in 1847, his parents being William and Parmelia (Dalrimple) Clancy. Both paternal and maternal ancestors were among the pioneer settlers of Ohio, where Mr. and Mrs. Clancy were reared. The father was born in Ohio, and his wife was a native of New Hampshire. For some years William Clancy was engaged in the mercantile business in Lagrange. His demise occurred in his twenty-eighth year. The death of his widow and a twin child occurred about the same time, during a typhoid fever epidemic. Mr. and Mrs. Clancy were parents of four sons and one daughter, Albert Worthington being the second in order of birth. In the acquirement of his early education Albert Worthington Clancy attended the public schools of Ohio and subsequently became a student in the Lebanon National Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1871, upon the completion of a four years' course. After putting his textbooks aside he engaged in teaching school in his native state and in Indiana for about seven years. At the termination of that time he was made county superintendent of schools at Muncie, Indiana, which important position he filled with distinction for six years. In 1881 he became associated with A. S. Barnes & Company, a book publishing concern of New York city and Chicago, and for ten years he traveled for that company. His territory was the state of Iowa and his headquarters Des Moines. In 1891 the company became the American Book Company and Mr. Clancy was sent by the new concern to Chicago, having charge of the work in the large cities in the Chicago division. In 1901 he came to Minneapolis as manager of the branch office here and is still active in this connection. He has been a dominant factor in the success of the American Book Company, with which he has been continuously employed for forty-three years, and he enjoys the confidence and esteem of all who know him. In Minneapolis, on the 15th of May, 1887, was celebrated the marriage of Albert Worthington Clancy and Miss Rochelle Henderson. She is a quiet and unassuming woman of charming personality and socially prominent. Although Mr. and Mrs. Clancy have had no children of their own, they have reared a grandnephew, Clancy West Pearl, who is now engaged in the conduct of an automobile business in Eagle Rock, California. During the World war he was connected with the aeroplane department of the navy, his service covering a period of twenty-six months. Since attaining his majority Albert Worthington Clancy has been a stanch sup­porter of the republican party and the principles for which it stands. He is extremely active in political affairs and has attended every national convention of both parties since 1872 with the exception of two republican and three democratic conventions. He was secretary of the William McKinley Business Men's Club of Chicago during the first nomination of Mr. McKinley. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias and he has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows since he was twenty-one years of age. He has held all chairs in that organization, including those of the grand lodge, and he is now what is termed an Ancient Odd Fellow. Mr. Clancy is very popular in fraternal circles. While living in Chicago he was a member of the Chicago Literary Club and the Union League Club, but of late years he has cared little for club work. He was first president of the Minne­sota Bookmen's Department. Since 1884 he has been a member of the National Education Association. He has attended all of the conventions of that body, both the annual and midwinter meetings, and is called "dean" of the association in recognition of his being one of the oldest members and the most regular in attend­ance. Mr. Clancy was one of the original stockholders in the organization to pro­mote the phonograph industry after its invention by Thomas A. Edison, and in 1885, at Chicago, was elected president of the National Phonograph Association of the United States and served as such for eight years. He enjoyed the intimate friend­ship of Mr. Edison, whom he frequently visited, and has in his home one of the original phonographs that was given to him by Mr. Edison. The religious faith of Albert Worthington Clancy is that of the Methodist Episcopal church and for some time he has been a member, of the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal church. He is one of the official board and teacher emeritus of the Men's Bible Forum of the church. He is a consistent communicant of the church and devotes a great part of his spare time to religious and educational matters. During the World war Mr. Clancy gave generously of his time and money in the furtherance of the govern­ment's interests. An orator of no little ability, he was called upon to make many speeches in behalf of the various bond drives and he was a dominant factor in their success. Keen executive ability, foresight and close application to the thing at hand form the basis of his success and his genial and pleasing personality has won for him numberless friends.