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Surnames: Cloyd, Wright, Nixon, Adams,
Classification: Biography
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Other surnames mentioned in the biography of EMERSON FRANKLIN CLOYD are, Cloyd, Wright,
Nixon, Adams,
EMERSON FRANKLIN CLOYD, superintendent of schools at Cambridge City, has had an
interesting range of experience as an educator, having started his work as a district
schoolman and most of his teaching has been in Eastern Indiana. He was born in Darke
County, Ohio, May 81, 1888, son of Calvin and Phoebe (Wright) Cloyd. His father was a
native of Iowa and his mother of Randolph County, Indiana, and they are now farmers near
Farmland. Emerson Franklin Cloyd attended public schools, including the Farmland High
School, and was twenty years of age when he took charge of a one-room district school, He
remained with that one school for four years. In 1915 he was graduated with the A. B.
degree from Earlham College of Richmond, and in other intervals of teaching has taken
graduate study at the University of Chicago and the University of Cincinnati. For five
years he was principal of schools at Williamsburg, Indiana, and on coming to Cambridge
City was principal of the high s!
chool for four years and was then made superintendent of the Cambridge City and Jackson
Township schools. Mr. Cloyd since 1917 has also been a licensed minister of the Friends
Church. He is a member of the National Education Association and its superintendents’
division. He is a member of the Friday Night Club, Kiwanis Club, Masonic fraternity and a
Republican in polities. He married in March, 1910, Miss Elsie Nixon, who was born in Jay
County Indiana, daughter of James G. and Amelia (Adams) Nixon. Her father was born in Jay
County and her mother near Farmland. Mr. and Mrs. Cloyd have one son, Robert F., born
February 4, 1917.