TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO - BIO: PAUL, Robert Clifford (published 1925) 
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HISTORY OF OHIO
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume III, page 200

        ROBERT CLIFFORD PAUL, M.D.  While he was a successful teacher in
the early years of his life, Doctor Paul for many years has rendered his
chief service as a physician and surgeon, and particularly as an eye
specialist. He is in practice at Wooster, and is one of the popular
citizens of that college town.
        He was born on a farm in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, May 15, 1861, son
of John M. and Harriet (Horn) Paul. His grandfather Paul, a native of
Pennsylvania and of Welsh ancestry, was a miller by occupation. John M.
Paul was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and followed the
vocation of miller and farmer. He married in Ohio, his wife having been
born in Maryland, but was reared in this state. In 1879 John M. Paul
settled in Wayne County, Ohio, and he and his wife both died at Millbrook,
this state. He was an abolitionist before the Civil war, always voted as a
republican, and he and his wife were active members of the Methodist
Church. They had four sons and one daughter; Morgan, who was killed in a
railroad accident; John V., a retired miller at Big Prairie, Ohio; William
A., who since 1890 has been clerk in the Federal Pension Bureau at
Washington, D.C.; Robert C.; and Annie, wife of William H. Wright, of
Kenmore, Ohio.
        Robert Clifford Paul after the early years of home life had to
depend upon his own exertions and initiative to achieve the object of his
ambition for a professional career. He attended common and select schools,
and altogether he put in ten years as a teacher, using his earnings from
this vocation to put him through medical college. He studied medicine at
Wooster University, a medical school that is now the medical department of
Western Reserve University. He was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1892,
and for over thirty years has been engaged in practice. For the first
twenty-one months he was located at Fostoria, Ohio, and for twenty years
from 1894 to October, 1914, was in practice at Shreve, Ohio. For the past
ten years his home has been at Wooster, where he has confined most of his
attention to diseases of the eye as an oculist. He is secretary of the
Wayne County Medical Society and a member of the Ohio state and American
Medical Associations.
        Doctor Paul's chief hobby has been music, and he is a musician of
wide experience and thorough grounding, and for twenty years has been
director of choirs. He is a member of the Church of Christ, is a
republican, is affiliated with the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias,
the Moose, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Royal Neighbors of America
and the Kiwanis Club. During the World war he acted as surgeon on the local
draft board for Wayne County, and since 1916 has been a member of the board
of examining surgeons of Wayne County for the Government pension division.
Doctor Paul married, December 25, 1890, Miss Lila C. Moore, of Canton, Ohio.




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