Northumberland County PA Archives Biographies.....Clement, Charles M. 1855 - living in 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com June 30, 2005, 11:48 am Author: Biographical Publishing Co. COLONEL CHARLES M. CLEMENT, a prominent and influential lawyer of Sunbury, is a son of Gen. John Kay Clement, whose biographical sketch immediately precedes this, and was born in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa., October 28, 1855. He acquired a good education in the academies at Sunbury, Pa., and Burlington, N. J. Leaving school at the age of seventeen years he accepted a position as a clerk in the prothonotary's office and continued as such for six years. He then read law in the office of his father and after his admission to the bar, on March 11, 1878, he began practice, being associated with his father until the latter's death. He made a thorough study of legal principles and had the happy faculty of applying them to practical every-day business affairs. He soon acquired a good clientage, and has also succeeded to that of his father. His practice is general, but is in the main corporation law. He is attorney for the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania, of which he is also president; attorney for the Shamokin Valley Telephone Company, and for the Shamokin & Mount Carmel Electric Railway. From April, 1891, to April, 1898, he was associated in practice with the Hon. S. P. Wolverton,a gentleman of distinction, whose life is recorded elsewhere in this Book of Biographies. Col. Clement is a firm supporter of the Republican party and has frequently been called upon to serve in official capacity. For several years he was a member of the council of Sun-bury and was assistant burgess for one term. He was also borough solicitor and solicitor for the school board for several years, and is solicitor for the overseers of the poor. On October 1, 1887, he was appointed corporation clerk of the State Department by Charles W. Stone, and on November 29, 1890, was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in which capacity he served with credit. From 1879 to 1883 he served as secretary of the county committee of the Republican party, and from 1883 to 1888 was chairman of the committee. He was one of the organizers of the Sunbury Guards, Company E, 12th Reg., N. G. P., in 1877, entering the service as a private, and was promoted in regular order to a captaincy, an office to which he was three times elected—in 1882, 1887, and in 1892. In 1896 he was elected Major of the i2th Regiment and in 1898 was elected Lieutenant-Colonel. Volunteering for service against Spain, he was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel of the I2th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf., which was mustered out of service October 28, 1898. Col. Clement's eldest son, John Kay Clement, seventeen years old, was a corporal in Company E of the same regiment. On November 19, 1879. Col. Clement was united in marriage to Alice Withington, a daughter of Martin J. D. Withington, and they are the parents of four sons, John Kay, Martin W., Charles Frances and Theron Ball. Socially, Col. Clement is a member of the Sons of Veterans, Sons of the Revolution and the Society of the War of 1812. He also is a trustee of the Mary M. Packer Hospital at Sunbury. The publishers of this work take pleasure in announcing that portraits of Gen. John K. and Col. Charles M. Clement are presented on preceding pages in connection with the above life histories. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899) This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb