Louis H. Clyborne Biography


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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	LOUIS H. CLYBORNE, one of the representative and highly honored 
citizens of Herreid, Campbell county, is a native of the state of Illinois, 
having been born in Cameron, Warren county, on the 5th of October, 1861, 
and being a son of Archibald and Jennie E. (Leeder) Clyborne, the former 
of whom is now a resident of the city of Chicago. The original 
representatives of the Clyborne family in America were numbered among 
the first settlers of the patrician old state of Virginia, where the 
family became one of prominence and influence, the lineage of our 
subject being traced back to William Clyborne, who established his home 
in the Old Dominion state in the early colonial epoch of our national 
history. William L. Clyborne, the grandfather of the subject, was one of 
the early settlers in Cass county, Michigan, in which state Archibald 
Clyborne was born and reared. In 1860 he removed to Illinois and located 
near Galesburg, where he continued to reside until 1876, when he removed 
to the city of Chicago, where he has ever since maintained his home and 
where he is engaged in the live-stock commission business. Of the four 
children the subject of this sketch is the eldest. 

	Mr. Clyborne was reared in Illinois and secured his education in 
the public schools of Galesburg and Chicago. He continued to reside in 
Illinois until 1883, when he came to South Dakota, arriving in Aberdeen, 
Brown county, on the 27th of March. After passing a few months in 
Aberdeen he removed to Lagrace, Campbell county, in which locality he 
was engaged in farming and stock growing until r890, having been, very 
successful in his efforts and having contributed materially to the 
development of the industrial resources of this attractive section of 
the state. In the year mentioned he was elected register of deeds of the 
county, and took up his residence in Mound City, the county seat. He was 
re-elected in 1892, and thus remained incumbent of this office for four 
successive years. Upon retiring from office Mr. Clyborne engaged in the 
real-estate and abstract business in Mound City, and in 1895 formed a 
partnership with C. E. Eckert, which association has ever since 
continued. In 1897 they purchased the bank of Campbell & Johnston, in 
Mound City, which they conducted until 1903, when they moved to Herreid, 
and on the 1st of May, 1903, they purchased the Herreid State Bank, 
which they reorganized as the Campbell County State Bank, of which they 
still remain in control. The bank is capitalized for twenty thousand 
dollars, has deposits of fifty thousand dollars. The institution is a 
solid and reliable one, being ably and carefully managed and controlling 
an excellent business. Mr. Clayborne has extensive real-estate interests 
in the county, being associated with Mr. Eckert in the ownership of five 
thousand acres of valuable farming lands, while he is also interested in 
various manufacturing and industrial enterprises. He has an attractive 
modern residence in Herreid, and the same is a center of gracious 
hospitality. In politics the subject accords a staunch allegiance to the 
Republican party, and fraternally he is identified with Acacia Lodge, 
No. 108, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He has been an earnest and 
zealous factor in church and Sunday school and is one of the prominent 
and valued members of the Methodist Episcopal church in his home town. 
He was for thirteen years superintendent of a Sunday school in Mound 
City. 

	On the 19th of November, 1889, Mr. Clyborne was united in marriage 
to Miss Elizabeth N. Stuart, w ho was born in Fillmore county, 
Minnesota, being a daughter of Charles Stuart, who there continued to 
reside until his death. Mr. and Mrs. Clyborne have four children, 
namely: Helen V., Robert A., Gladys Ramona and Mildred Ruth.