Solomon Clough Biography


	This biography appears on page 1103 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	SOLOMON CLOUGH, one of the prominent and representative farmers 
and stock growers of Charles Mix county, is a native of the far distant 
Pine Tree state, having been born in Piscataquis county, Maine, on the 
Igth of August, 1832. so that he has now passed the span of three score 
years and ten. He is a son of Noah and Abigail (Oakes) Clough, who 
became the parents of eight children, namely: Clarissa, Bradford, Noah, 
Orrison, Albion, Betsy Jane, Solomon and John B. Of the children those 
living at the present time are Orrison, Solomon and John B. The father 
followed a seafaring life for seven years, after which he was engaged in 
agricultural pursuits during the balance of his active career. The 
Clough family is one whose name has long been identified with American 
history, the original progenitors in the new world having come hither 
from England about four centuries ago. When our subject was a lad of 
seven years his parents emigrated from Maine to the new state of 
Illinois, settling in Winnebago county, where they remained about four 
years, the father having there purchased land for about two dollars an 
acre. At the expiration of the period, noted he disposed of his Illinois 
farm and settled in Grant county, Wisconsin where he purchased 
government land and developed a good farm, having been one of the 
sterling pioneers of that section of the Badger state, where both he and 
his wife continued to reside until their deaths. 

	Solomon Clough, subject of this sketch, has a vivid recollection 
of the pioneer days in Wisconsin, where he passed his youth, assisting 
in the reclaiming and cultivation of the home farm and attending the 
common schools until he was about eighteen years of age. In 1854 he was 
united in marriage to Miss Frances Shaw, who was born in Illinois, and 
the one child of this union survived its birth by only a few days. The 
subject continued to follow agricultural pursuits in Wisconsin from the 
time of his marriage until 1890, when he came to South Dakota, having 
previously disposed of his farm in Grant county, Wisconsin, for a 
consideration of fifteen dollars an acre. Upon arriving in Charles Mix 
county he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of the valuable land in 
the Missouri river valley, paying for the same at the rate of six and 
one-quarter dollars an acre, while he also took up a homestead claim of 
eighty acres. He now is the owner of a fine landed estate of two hundred 
and forty acres, the same having excellent improvements of a permanent 
nature and being maintained under a high state of cultivation. In 
politics Mr. Clough pronounces himself a Jeffersonian Democrat and an 
Abraham Lincoln Republican, and he holds that the two terms are 
synonymous. He served for six years as treasurer of his school district 
and has done all in his power to forward the educational interests of 
the district. He and his wife are members of the R. G. Ingersoll church.