Biographies:   Daniel G. CLEMMONS, Barron, Barron Co., WI 

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Daniel G. Clemmons, barber of Barron city, is one of the well known men of
that place. He has been councilman and supervisor four years, under-sheriff
five years and chief of the fire department two years, being one of the
oldest volunteer firemen in point of service in the state. He was born 
Nov. 3, 1868, in Portage City, Wis., son of Alvin and Sarah (Haynes) Clemmons. 
He received his education in the district schools and spent his youth in the 
sawmills and lumber woods of Chippewa County. In 1900 he learned the barber 
trade of D. D. Page in Barron and a year later he purchased his present shop. 
He has been successful in his business and is well liked in the community. 
Mr. Clemmons was married Oct. 25, 1891, to Ida J. Sanders, who was born in 
Menomonie, Wis., April 1, 1873, daughter of George and Mary (Schaffer) 
Sanders, natives of Germany, who came to America in 1854. Mr. and Mrs. 
Clemmons are the parents of eight children: Claude C., who was born Aug. 21, 
1893, and died Sept. 9, 1894; Alta, who was born Sept. 26, 1895, and is now 
Mrs. Sayles Dodge of Rice Lake, this county. Clarissa, who was born March 25, 
1897, and is now Mrs. Alfred Stollar of North Dakota; Florence M., who was 
born Sept. 27, 1898, and is now teaching. Laura, who was born Jan. 7, 1901; 
Grant, who was born March 13, 1903; Lloyd, born March 21, 1905, and Clark P., 
born Dec. 1, 1917. The family faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 984.