William H. Clawson and [Unk] Gates

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Husband William H. Clawson ¹

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   Other Spouse: Melinda Humason (      -1876) 1 - Ohio

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Wife [Unk] Gates ²

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1 F Mina Clawson ²

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General Notes: Husband - William H. Clawson

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He was born in Old Virginia and came from one of the old families of the Dominion State.

He and his wife settled in Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1834, and at Jackson Centre, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in 1843, where he followed the tannery and harness-making business, a part of the old Infield Hotel constituting a portion of the tannery. Six years later he moved his tannery a short distance eastward in the same township. His tannery having burned down about 1863 he removed the next year to Trumbull County, where he farmed.
He was a stanch Republican. At an early date he, Benjamin Ride and Messrs. Harrison and Savage formed a Wesleyan Methodist organization at Jackson Centre, and held services in a school-house, near where Mr. Vernam's store stands. He naturally drifted into the current of opposition to slavery, and because of this those in authority on the other side refused them the use of the school-house to worship God, and Mr. Clawson tendered the use of his dwelling for some time. [HMC 1888, 1047]

Shortly after the close of the Civil war, he moved back to Ohio, where he died at the advanced age of almost ninety-one years.

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 657, 1047.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1047.