Biographical Sketch of D. W. Clouser, Crawford Township, Buchanan 
County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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D. W. Clouser, farmer, section 8, 9 and 10, postoffice Halleck; was
born in Ross County, Ohio on September 4, 1830.  His opportunities of
education were very limited.  He was raised on a farm; also worked in
a grist and saw mill.  His parents emigrated to Missouri in 1847, and
located in Buchanan County.  He was married to Miss Elsa Noble in 1850.
She was born in Indiana, June 19, 1830.  They had three children: Ruth
A., born March 26, 1853; George P., born July 23, 1855; David A., born
April 14, 1857.  His wife died June 23, 1861, and he was again married
October 9, 1865, to Miss Rebecca L. Crow.  She was born in Kentucky on
December 4, 1841.  The result of this union was seven children: Charles
W., born October 16, 1866; Hugh C., born March 6, 1868; Carrie A., born
September 14, 1870; James A., born September 6, 1872; Iva L., born 
April 27, 1878; Ada D., born July 28, 1880 and one child who died in
infancy.  By hard labor and economy Mr. Clouser has secured 310 acres
of land, all under fence and in a good state of cultivation, with ten
acres of fine orchard.  He is a justice of the peace, school director
and township clerk.  He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of Tabernacle
Chapter No. 54; is an Odd Fellow and a member of the Christian Church,
in which he is now an elder.  In 1850, seven hundred Pottawatomie Indi-
ans camped on his place.  He fed them and traded with them during this
time.  His father, Daniel Clouser, resides with him.  He was born in
Ohio, October 14, 1799.  He learned the blacksmith trade when young, 
but was compelled to abandon it on account of his eyes, after which he
followed farming and milling.  He married Catherine Roten, May 11, 1829.
She was born in Ohio, February 20, 1803.  They had five children, two
boys and three girls.  Father Clouser was a pea vine tramper in Ohio,
and had many narrow escapes.  His wife died February 15, 1881, after
having been sick for thirty years.

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