William Bruce Crampton

CRAMPTON, HALLESS, CLEMENT, ROBSON

Posted By: Barbara Gehlsen Nugent (email)
Date: 7/25/2011 at 11:37:10

Wolfe's History of Clinton County, Volume 2, pages 1015 and 1016 Excerpt:

WILLIAM BRUCE CRAMPTON

This is the day of Anglo-Saxon supremacy, and proud should those persons be in whose veins flows the pure English blood, for theirs is the race and the strain which have given the color and form to the two greatest nationalities of the day. the American and the British. There are persons in these nationalities of many and various descents, but the English element has pressed its dominant stamp on all the national characteristics, and they are to all practical purposes English nations throughout. This review records the doings of a family who exemplify the strongest English traits.

William Bruce Crampton was born on June 16, 1881, in Clinton county, Iowa, the son of William Crampton. William Crampton was born in Lincolnshire. England, on December 7, 1851, the son of William and Mary Crampton. His parents came to this country in 1852, and located in Eden township, where a number of English families had colonized, and there purchased a farm, following agricultural pursuits until their deaths, at the respective ages of seventy-five and eighty-five. They were the parents of ten children, six of whom are living, all in this county except Benjamin. Those resident in Clinton county are John, George, Eliza (now Mrs. Halless), Mrs. John Clement and William.

William Crampton received his education in the common schools, and was married in this county to Eliza Robson, who died on July II, 1881, and was buried in Elvira cemetery. There were born to them four sons, Frankie (deceased), Elmer E., Oliver and William Bruce. The three last named live near each other on one hundred and sixty acres each of fertile land improved with good buildings. Their father retired from the farm in 1904, first moving to Clinton, and later purchasing property at Low Moor, where he now resides. He began married life on the farm Where his son, Elmer E , now lives, and by good management and industry accumulated property until he was, when he retired, the owner of five hundred and sixty acres of fine farming land, the most of which lies in Center township.

William Bruce Crampton, the youngest member of the family, resides upon his farm of one hundred and sixty acres, located one mile east of Elvira. He is a young man of sterling qualities and one of the successful young farmers of his county. In politics he is a Democrat, in religion a member of the Lutheran church, While fraternally he is a member of the order of Eagles. He is unmarried. None of the younger residents of the township are more popular or better liked than is Mr. Crampton, nor have a more promising future.