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Author: HuntingtonV
Surnames: Clawson Lewis Sayler
Classification: biography
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Francis M. Clawson, boot and shoe and queensware merchant at Andrews, has been engaged in
the mercantile business almost continually since 1867. He is a native of Preble County,
Ohio, where he was born, October 11, 1839, being the twelfth in a family of twelve
children, born to Samuel and Mary (Lewis) Clawson, who were also natives of Preble County.
They emigrated to Indiana and Grant County, about 1846. They continued residents of that
county about three years, when they lived for a time in Wabash County, thence removing to
Tipton, from where they returned to Wabash, where the former died in 1851; his widow
married again after the latter's death. She died in 1876, while on a visit to her son
in Indianapolis. She had made her home for some years prior to her death with our
subject. At the early age of twelve, when his father died, Mr. Clawson was cast upon his
own resources. He worked as a farm hand until he attained the age of eighteen, when he
engaged to learn the p!
ainter's trade, which he followed until 1861, when he entered the service of his
country, enlisting in Company F, Thirteenth Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, where
he served for three years. During this period he was present at all the engagements in
which his regiment participated, and was wounded at the battle of Foster's Farm, near
Petersburg, May 20, 1864. He was then sent to the hospital, and when he recovered
sufficiently to travel returned home and organized a company known as Company B, One
Hundred and Fifty-Third Regiment, he being mustered as First Lieutenant, then serving
until the close of the war. He was honorably discharged at Louisville. April 17, 1876,
his marriage with Martha Sayler was solemnized. He had removed to what was then Antioch
in 1860, and where he has since, with the exception of seven years, from 1873 until 1880,
when he was engaged in the mercantile business at Peru, made his home. From a business
point of view he has been very s!
uccessful. He has a fine store and enjoys a good renumerative trade.
He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics, he is a
Republican, and held the position of Postmaster from 1866 up to and inclusive of the year
1868.
History of Huntington County, Indiana. (Brant & Fuller: Chicago, IL) 1887.
Biographical Sketches of Dallas Township, p. 618/9.
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