Yolo County Biographies


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E. J. CLANTON
 
E.J. CLANTON, a fruit drier at Woodland, is the son of J.M. and Mary (Riggs) 
Clanton, the former a native of Tennessee, born in 1808, a farmer by trade and 
now living in Woodland, at the age of eighty-one years, and his mother, a native 
of Kentucky, born in 1810, died in Woodland in 1867. They came to California in 
1853, bringing all their children with them except the eldest son, D.R.., whose 
sketch appears elsewhere in this work. E.J. was born in Adams County, Illinois, 
May 1, 1832. Leaving Quincy, in that county, April 1, 1853, for California, he 
arrived in Yolo County, September 17th. His present home, just outside the 
limits of Woodland, on Maine street, consists of forty acres, on which he raises 
grapes and other fruits and dries raisins, at the rate of about thirty tons a 
year. Besides, he dries one ton of apricots and a small quantity of Bartlett 
pears.
      Mr. Clanton was first married in 1863, to M.A. Kelsay. Their children 
were: Josephine, now the wife
of James England and residing in Lakeport, Lake County; and Jennie A., who 
married D.G. Hartman and lives near Dunnigan, Yolo County. His present wife, nee 
Mary D. Kettle, was born in Indiana in 1847. Her parents are now living in 
Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Clanton were married in Callaway County, that State, 
September 10, 1874. Mr. Clanton is a member of Woodland Lodge, No.111, I.O.O.F. 
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California
The Lewis Publishing Co., 1891
Page 615
Transcribed by: Bonnie Phelan