Clough, Thomas M. (1817-1878)

CLOUGH

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Date: 6/28/2021 at 23:37:00

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.916

THOMAS M. CLOUGH
(October 5, 1817 - April 10, 1878)

Prominent among the pioneers of this section of the state was T. M. Clough, now deceased, who came to Warren County in 1846, and bore an active part in its early development and prosperity. He was a native of Ohio, born in Wash­ington County on the 5th of October, 1817, and was a son of Aaron and Sarah (Delano) Clough. The former was a representative of an old New England family and was born in Massachusetts March 9, 1765. He spent his early life in the east and in 1788 removed with Rufus Putnam's company to Mari­etta, Ohio. The mother of our subject was born June 26, 1871.
In the state of his nativity T. M. Clough passed the days of his boyhood and youth and on reaching manhood he was married July 3, 1854, to Miss Lydia Rice, of Meigs County, Ohio, who was born on the 20th of September, 1829. Prior to his marriage Mr. Clough had come to Iowa in 1846, and settled on a farm near Summerset, where throughout the remainder of his life he en­gaged in agricultural pursuits, owning and operating a well improved place. He died on the 10th of April, 1878, honored and respected by all who knew him. He had many friends in Warren County, and his death was deeply mourned.