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FRANK A. CLOUGH
FRANK A. CLOUGH.—Force, determination, singleness of purpose, and ability to see and grasp an opportunity, have been salient aids to success in the career of Frank A. Clough, president and manager of the Boyd-Perley Company, lumber dealers of Chico. He was born at Brownville, Maine, October 2, 1883. His father, F. M. Clough, was a lumber manufacturer and owner of a machine shop in Brownville, and later became associated with the Diamond Match Company as manager of their East Portland branch. Later, he was transferred to Biddeford, Maine, still in the same position. Some years later he was transferred to Athol, a suburb of Boston, Mass., where he remained until 1901, when he came to California as Pacific Coast manager for the company. He was made vice-president and general manager at the time the Diamond Match Company purchased the interests of the Sierra Lumber Company at Chico, and controlled the operations of the business until 1910, when he resigned and retired to Oakland. Four years later, Mr. Clough organized the Pacific Coast Shredded Wheat Company, at Oakland, a branch of the Niagra Falls, N. Y. plant. He superintended the erection of the plant and the installation of the machinery, and has been secretary-treasurer and acting manager of the plant ever since. He married Annie Bonney, who was born in Leeds, Mass., a daughter of Rev. John and Sarah (Linforth) Bonney, both natives of England. Rev. Bonney was a Methodist Episcopal preacher and died in the Master’s service. Mrs. Bonney, now ninety-one years of age, hale and hearty, is living in Oakland. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Clough were the parents of five children.
Frank A. Clough was reared in Athol, Mass., where he attended the grammar and high school, graduating from the latter in 1902. The following year he came to Chico and for six months was with the Butte County Railway, on the surveying corps, after which he became lumber-grader at the mill of the Diamond Match Company. In January, 1905, he associated himself with the Chico Electric Railway, where he remained a year, returning to the Diamond Match Company in the wholesale lumber, sash and door department, and from 1908 to 1910 was sales manager of the sash and door department. Mr. Clough resigned from this position to engage in the wholesale lumber, sash and door business for himself, with headquarters at San Francisco, where he remained until 1913. On September 26, 1913, he returned to Chico and bought out the Cooney Lumber Company, located in Chico Vecino, continuing the business under that name until it was incorporated as the Clough Lumber Company, of which he was president and manager until he sold out on February 26, 1916, to Adams and Johnson Lumber Company. Mr. Clough became manager of the Chico yards. The firm is now known as the Adams Lumber Company, and it deals in lumber and general building material. For thirteen years, he has been interested in the retail lumber business. He assisted in incorporating the Boyd-Perley Company, about 1904, and has acted as president and manager of the company since its incorporation. The yards are located on Chestnut Street, Barber, and the general office at 408 Broadway, Chico, delivery being made all over Chico and vicinity.
Frank A. Clough was united in marriage, at Chico, with Miss Ellen Stansbury, a native of Greensboro, Md., and a daughter of a prominent physician. Mr. and Mrs. Clough have had two children born to them: Elizabeth Linforth, and Frederick Stansbury. Mr. Clough was made a Mason in Chico Lodge, No. 111, F. & A. M., and is a member of Chico Chapter, No. 42, R. A. M.; Chico Commandery, No12, K. T.; Chico Lodge, No. 423, B. P. O. Elks; and the Hoo Hoo’s, No. 19,921, an organization of lumbermen. He is a member of the Episcopal Church. The family resides in the comfortable home which Mr. Clough erected on Willard Avenue, Chico Vecino.
Transcribed
by Sharon Walford Yost.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 1170-1171, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Sharon
Walford Yost.
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