Biographical Sketch of C. C. Clendenin, Laclede County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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C. C. Clendenin, merchant at Lebanon, Mo., and son of Ephraim R. and 
Pauline (Conway) Clendenin, was born in Randolph County, Ill., March 
25, 1847.  The parents were both native of Randolph county, Ill, the
father born in or near Rockwood and the mother born at Old Kaskaskia.
The maternal grandfather, Clement C. Conway, was born in Ireland, and
immigrated to South Carolina at an early date.  From there he moved to
Kaskaskia, Ill.  He was a hatter by trade, which occupation he followed
the principal part of his life.  He died on the Ohio River, in 1852, of
cholera.  The grandfather Clendenin died in Randolph County, Ill.  He 
was engaged in mercantile pursuits for several years in Old Liberty,
and was one of the first business men of that place.  He resided on a
farm the most of his time.  The father of our subject lived and died in
Randolph county, Ill.  In his youth he learned the trade of ship car-
penter, which he followed until 1862, when he enlisted in the late war,
but the quota being full, he was appointed by Lincoln as enrolling
officer for the Southern Illinois District, which position he was fill-
ing at the time of his death, which occurred September 20, 1864.  The
mother is still living, and resides in Walnut, Kas.  They were the 
parents of seven children, four now living: Emma G., wife of James 
Miln, of Cairo; Colburn C., Charles M. and Adelle.  Those deceased were
named Sydney, Penelope and Clara.  C. C. Clendenin was reared in
Liberty (now Rockwood), Ill., where he received a common school educa-
tion.  He worked on the farm until the death of his father, in 1864,
when he served an apprenticeship at the trade of stone cutting, which
he followed for twelve years, and worked in the meantime on some of the
largest State buildings in Illinois.  He assisted in building the
Springfield State House, the Southern Illinois Insane Asylum, Normal
University of Carbondale, and the penitentiary at Chester.  He was con-
tracting for about five years in Illinois.  In 1879 he took the con-
tract for all the stone work on St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church,
in Chester, Ill, the finest church building in the county.  In 1881 he
took the contract for the stone work for the Shiloh Hill College build-
ing, in Randolph county, Ill., and the insane asylum on the Randolph
county farm.  In September, 1881, he came to Lebanon, Mo., and here
engaged in his present business with L. J. Kaffenberger, and the firm
is known as Kaffenberger & Co.  Mr. Clendenin was married December 20,
1871, to Miss Maggie L. Gordon, of Jackson county, Ill.  To them was 
born one child, Etta, whose birth occurred October 23, 1872.  He is a
member of the K. L., National Lodge of Combined Industries, and Sons
of Veterans.  He is a member of the city council, and president of the
town board.  Mr. Clendenin is a strong advocate of organized labor, and
it was the labor element that elected him to the position of city 
alderman.  He was a delegate to the national convention of the United
Labor party that met at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 15, 1888, which nominated
Streeter and Cunningham for President and vice-president.

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