Alonzo E. Clough, M. D. Biography


	This biography appears on page 1861 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	ALONZO E. CLOUGH, M. D., was born in St. Lawrence county, New 
York, and received his rudimentary educational discipline in the public 
schools of his native state. After the family removal to the west, he 
continued his studies in the common schools and at Cresco Academy, 
while later he was matriculated in the Upper Iowa University, at 
Fayette. Subsequently he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
at Keokuk, Iowa, where he completed his technical course, being 
graduated and receiving his coveted degree of Doctor of Medicine. Later 
he took a special course in the New York Polyclinic, and he has also 
taken several special postgraduate courses in the leading medical 
schools of the city of Chicago.

	Shortly after receiving his degree Dr. Clough came to South 
Dakota and located in Madison, Lake county, where he has ever since 
maintained his home and where he has built up a large and 
representative practice, and he is to be noted as one of the pioneer 
physicians of the state. The Doctor is a staunch Republican in his 
political proclivities, and has been one of the leaders in the party 
councils in the state, having had the distinction of serving as 
chairman of the state central committee in 1892-3, though he has never 
sought official preferment of a personal nature. He is affiliated with 
the Masonic fraternity and also with the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows. He and his family are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal 
church.

	Dr. Clough was united in marriage to Miss Mary P. Matheny, who 
was born and reared in Wauseon, Ohio, and of this union have been born 
three children.