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WILLIAM SIMPSON CLENDINEN
WILLIAM SIMPSON CLENDINEN,
deceased, was born in Randolph
County, Illinois, June 16, 1813, son of James and Margaret (Hurd)
Clendinen. The grandparents Clendinen were Scotch (?) and the grandparents’
Hurd were Irish Presbyterians. The latter settled in Tennessee.
William, the subject of this sketch,
received a fair education for the times and was endowed with a special faculty
in using the tools of most common trades. He was married in Illinois, November 22, 1832, to Miss Catharine Oliver, a native of Tennessee. He served in the Black Hawk war in Illinois; and
afterward moved to Wisconsin, where he worked for some time in the lead mines,
and where Mrs. Clendinen died April 20, 1841, leaving three children of whom
only one, Emeline, now Mrs. Jasper S. Hall of this county, survives; another,
Calvin, died in this county in 1889, aged fifty-two, leaving one son, William,
aged about thirty, who is a rancher in Shasta County. Mr. Clendinen was again
married, in 1847, to Mrs. Charlotte (Allbee) Mann, born in Erie County, New York, in 1818, daughter of Jeheil and Irene (Palmer)
Allbee. The father, a native of Washington
County, New York, died there, a farmer, in 1844, aged fifty-two; the mother, a native
of Vermont, moved from New York to Wisconsin in 1845, and lived to be over eighty-five, dying in
1876. Grandfather Benjamin Allbee was a New Englander by birth; he settled in Washington County, New
York, after his marriage to
Miss Abigail Thompson, who was also a native of New England. They afterward moved to Erie County, New York, where they own a large farm. Father and grandfather
Allbee were in the war of 1812 and were in Buffalo, when that city was burnt by the British. Both died
in Erie County, New
York, having
lived to be over eighty. Grandparents Jacob and Mercy (Phillips) Palmer, he a
native of New Jersey and she of Vermont, also lived to be over eighty.
In 1852, William S., the subject of this
sketch, came to California, and went to mining at Yuba, El Dorado County. He went East in 1855 and returned in 1863 across the
plains with his wife and five children. On his arrival he bought 160 acres in Dent Township, two miles north of Ripon, which are still the
homestead of his family. He also made headers and other agricultural
implements, and was in every respect well thought of in the community as a man
of marked integrity of character. He died January 10, 1876, leaving five
children, all surviving, namely: Henry Hurd, born May 2, 1848, by trade a
carpenter; James, born December 21, 1849, married to Miss Kittie Seavy, who was
born in Maine in 1857 and brought up in California, whither her parents came in
1864; they have two daughters: Dora Jane, born November 23, 1857, married to
John Hollister, a native of Ohio, but of Connecticut ancestry for several
generations. He is a rancher of Merced County and they have seven children. John William, born June
10, 1861, and George Howard, born October 12, 1863, are both unmarried and
living at home; they are members of Mount Horeb Lodge, No. 58, I. O. O. F.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 336-337. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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