Biography:  WILLIAM OLIVER CLOUGH, Hillsborough  Co., NH

Granite State Magazine An Illustrated Monthly Devoted to the History,
Story, Scenery, Industry and Interest of New Hampshire 
Edited By George Waldo Browne 
Volume I. January to June, 1906 
Manchester, N.H.:
Granite State Publishing Company 1906

WILLIAM OLIVER CLOUGH, son of John Kenney and Ellen Lunt (Libbey)
Clough, was born in Grey, Me., July 14, 1840, and died in Nashua,
March 25, 1906. Mr. Clough was educated in the schools of Meredith,
where he passed his boyhood. Graduating from Rev. Hosea Quimby's
academy in 1856, he went to seek his fortune in Boston, where he
remained until 1869, when he removed to Nashua. Of a literary turn of
mind, he soon after became city editor of the Nashua Telegraph, which
position he held until 1892. In 1895 he obtained a controlling
interest in the Nashua Daily Gazette, and in November changed its name
to the Nashua Press, which he conducted, with the exception of one
year, until failing health compelled him to merge it with the 'Daily
Telegraph, becoming an editorial writer upon the latter in June, 1905.
He contributed to the Boston journal under the pen name of "Nashoonon"
for over twenty years, and wrote for newspapers and magazines over one
hundred serials, short stories and sketches. He was city marshal from
1876 to 1881, and associate justice of the Nashua police court from
1878 to his decease. He was prominent in Masonic circles.

Judge Clough was married January 16, 1868, at Manchester, to Julia
Moore, daughter of Jonathan H. and Hannah Van (Sleeper) Moore, who was
a sister of the late Congressman Orrin C. Moore of Nashua. Two
daughters, Mrs. Charlotte Moore Cornish and Miss Christine Rolfe
Moore, both of whom survive him, were born to that marriage. Besides
the above, he is survived by two brothers, John F., commissioner of
Hillsborough County, and Edward H., postmaster of Manchester.


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March 2000


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