WHITFIELD W. CLORE
A
factor in progress and advancement, always willing to bear his
share of time or money toward any worthy public enterprise,
Whitfield W. Clore occupies an important position in the life
of Lucas county, Iowa, where he owns a highly productive farm
of four hundred and sixty acres located on sections 10,13, 14,
23 and 24, Otter Creek township. Broad and liberal-minded, he has become
a power in his locality and his labors have not only been
conductive to his own prosperity but have raised the moral,
intellectual and material standards.
Born
in Parke County, Indiana, on December 31, 1859, he is a son of
Howard and Sarah (Deere) Clore, natives of Kentucky, in which
state the father was born in 1818. The father subsequently removed to
Indiana where the family settled in Parke county and where
both he and his wife became prominent and widely and favorably
known. He passed
away in that state in 1895, long surviving his wife, whose
death occurred in 1872, also in that state. In their family
were five children, one of whom died in infancy. The others are: Henry H., who
resides in Indiana; Sarah, also a resident of that state;
Howard D., born November 11, 1857, who makes his home in Otter
Creek township, this county; and Whitfield W., of this review. All of these
children were born in Indiana.
Whitfield
W. Clore was reared under the parental roof and in the
acquirement of his education attended the schools near his
father’s farm. He
remained in his native state until about twenty-seven years of
age, when in May, 1886, he came to Otter Creek township, Lucas
county, settling on sections 24 and 13, purchasing land on
which he engaged in agricultural pursuits, giving part of his
time to stock-raising. Energetic
and industrious, success has attended his labors and he is now
well known as one of the successful stock feeders of the
township, specializing in full blooded Percheron horses and
Hereford cattle. Diligence
and earnest efforts have resulted in a competence and today he
owns four hundred and sixty acres of land, all under high
cultivation and equipped with two sets of improvements. His well repaired
barns and outbuildings, his modern and up-to-date implements
and his richly-bearing fields bespeak the prosperity of their
owner. The
family residence is equipped with all modern conveniences, is
commodious and comfortable and rivals in elegance any city
home. As his
means have increased Mr. Clore has made other judicious
investments and owns four hundred acres of excellent land in
Texas. There his
eldest son now resides.
On
March 18, 1890, Mr. Clore was united in marriage to Miss Ella
F. Bond, who was born in Mahaska county, Iowa, on September
27, 1868, having always remained a resident of this state. Her parents were
George T. and Margaret (Johnson) Bond, natives of Maryland,
who died in Otter Creek township, the former on February 14,
1884, and the latter on February 16, 1908. In their family
were seven children, of whom two are living, Mrs. Clore’s
older brother, Charles R. Bond, being mentioned at length on
another page of this volume.
Mr. and Mrs. Clore became the parents of two sons, both
of whom were born at the home farm in Otter Creek township. Wayne Leland, born
January 3, 1891, acquired his early education in the common
schools, subsequently spending one year at the Chariton high
school and a year and a half in the seminary of Simpson
College, at Indianola. He
resides at present in Texas.
Charles Ober, born August 14, 1892, makes his home with
his father.
Politically Mr. Clore is a republican, well informed upon the issues of the day and taking an active and helpful interest in the community’s welfare. Mrs. Clore is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Norwood, to which organization and its allied societies she gives her material and moral support. Both she and her husband are highly regarded and esteemed in Otter Creek township and Lucas county where they are well and favorably know, having won good-will and high regard by their many high qualities of mind and character. The success Mr. Clore has attained is well earned and well merited for it is the outcome of a life rich in effort and labor, a just return which none can begrudge him.