Clyde R. Showalter Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Fennimore, Biographical Sketches, Page 990 

CLYDE R. SHOWALTER, teacher of high school, Fennimore; son of John Showalter, 
who was born in Pennsylvania in 1833, and came to Lancaster when a young man.  
He married Phebe Roberts, who was born in Kentucky, and came to Grant Co. in 
1840.  They had two children - Clyde and Portia.  Mr. John Showalter enlisted on 
the breaking out of the rebellion, in the 2d Wisconsin Cavalry; served three 
years, and re-enlisted for the war.  He died from disease contracted in the army 
in June, 1865.  Clyde graduated at the State Normal School at Platteville, in 
1879.