CLAYTON WILLEVER BIOGRAPHY, WARREN, NEW JERSEY

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Clayton Willever
   As surrogate of Warren County since 1924,Clayton Willever has effectively
served this New Jersey area.He has his headquarters in the Court House at
Belvidere.
   Mr Willever was born March 31,1901 in Phillipsburg,New Jersey,son of
William and Anne S.[Piatt] Willever.His father,who was born at Phillipsburg
in 1869,died January 8,1933,in that same community,where he was for years
engaged in business as a merchant and grocer.He was a Republican in his
political views,and fraternally was affiliated with the Free and Accepted
Masons,the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Improved Order of
Red Men.The mother was born in Phillipsburg in 1870 and died in
January,1938.
  Public schools of Phillipsburg,his New Jersey birthplace,provided Clayton
Willever's early formaleducation,and he graduated from high school there in
1919.He then became a student at Lafayette College,where he received the
degree of Bachelor of Science in 1924.It was in that year that he
practicalized his early interest in Repiblican politics by becoming a
candidate for the office of  surrogate of Warren County.Although still very
young,he was elected to this post in November of that year for a five-year
term.Afterward he was re-elected in 1929,1934 and 1939,and at that time of
writing he plans again to be  a 1944 candidate for the office of surrogate.
   Aside from his valuable service in this office,to which he was first
elected when only twenty-three years of age,Mr.Willever has concerned
himself with a wide range of activities in Warren County and this region of
New Jersey.A trained lawer,he was graduated in 1936 from the John Marshall
Law School with the degree of Bachelor of Laws.He is a member of the County
Clerks' and Surrogates' Association of the State of New Jersey.Fraternally
he is affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons,his affiliation being
with Lodge No.52,while he also belongs to the Phillipsburg Lodge of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,Lodge No.1372,of the Fraternal Order
of Eagles and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.In the Masonic order he
has many connections,including memberships in the Tall Cedars of Lebanon and
other bodies.He is a member too,of the Sigma Nu fraternity,which he joined
in his student days.He belongs to the Phillipsburg Fish and Game Club and
the Warren County Fish and Game Club,he is interested in fishing,hunting and
other sports.He aids the local fire fighting organization in Phillipsburgh
as a member of the Alert Fire Company.He holds membership in St.Johns
Lutherian Church and its Mens Club.
   In Phillipsburgh,New Jersey,June 26,1925,Clayton Willever married
Margaret Irmer,a native of Phillipsburgh,daughter of August and Katherine
Irmer,both of whom were born in Germany.They became the parents of three
children,all born in Phillipsburgh:1.Clayton Irmer,b-Jan 28,1927.2.Edward
Leigh b-May 30,1930.3.Suzanne,b Jan 26,1935