Tulare County Biographies

GRANT F. CLAYTON, D. O.

Transcribed by Jeannie Miyama

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Dr. Grant F. Clayton, a widely known practitioner of osteopathy in Tulare 
county, with residence and office in the pleasant village of Earlimart and an 
office in Delano, the owner of a fine ranch in the Earlimart neighborhood and in 
other ways interested in the general affairs of the community, has been a 
resident of California for a quarter of a century and never ceased singing the 
praises of this favored state as a place of residence, particularly stressing 
the manifold delights of the beautiful and fruitful San Joaquin valley.  Dr. 
Clayton is a native of the state of Illinois, born in the city of Ottawa, the 
county seat of La Salle county, in the northern part of that state, not far 
southwest of the city of Chicago, November 7, 1964, a son of John S. and Julia 
A. (Surdan) Clayton, members of pioneer families in that section of the state.  
John S. Clayton, who was a substantial farmer and landowner, was a son of 
William Clayton, who was one of the real pioneers of La Salle county and who 
became a well-to-do farmer and stockman.
 
Reared on the home place in the immediate vicinity of the city of Ottawa Grant 
F. Clayton attended the schools of that city and his young manhood was devoted 
to the labors of the farm.  While thus engaged he became interested in the 
theory and practice of osteopathy as a curative medium and after some 
preliminary study along that line entered the S. S. Still Osteopathic School at 
Kirkville, Missouri, and after a thorough course of study was graduated from 
that institution in 1899, a member of the fourth class thus graduated from the 
Still school.  Thus equipped for the practice of the profession to which he had 
devoted his talents, Dr. Clayton opened an office for practice in Chadron, Dawes 
county, Nebraska, and was there for about three years, at the end of which time 
he closed out his interests and came to California, where he ever since has made 
his home and where he is quite content to remain.
 
Upon coming to California, Dr. Clayton engaged in practice in Los Angeles, 
taking there a downtown office, and was thus occupied until 1907 when, seeking 
retirement, he came to Tulare county and bought a tract of one hundred and 
eighty acres of fruit land in the Earlimart neighborhood, which he began to 
improve and develop, with a view to giving his attention to fruit culture.  It 
was not long until it became known in the community that he was a doctor of 
osteopathy and presently the calls made upon his professional services became so 
numerous that he decided after all that the time had not yet come for him to 
retire from practice and he abandoned his ranching activities and resumed his 
formal practice, with office and residence in Earlimart, where he since has been 
located and where he has acquired a wide practice.  The Doctor also maintains a 
part time office in Delano and is widely known throughout the county.  He 
disposed of one hundred acres of his ranch but still owns eighty acres and finds 
much satisfaction in the manner in which his initial work has developed there.
 
On November 29, 1889, in Utica, Illinois, Dr. Clayton was united in marriage to 
Miss Sarah. I. Irwin, who also was born in La Salle county, Illinois, a member 
of one of the old families of that section of the state.  To Dr. and Mrs. 
Clayton four children have been born, sons all, namely:  Irwin, who died at the 
age of eighteen years; Grant E., who is now living in Los Angeles, and Howard C. 
and Elmore E., who are at home with their parents.  Mrs. Clayton also is 
graduate osteopath physician and has for years been practicing in association 
with her husband, the two having offices together, a very effective and 
convenient arrangement.  Both are members of the California State Osteopathic 
Association and are widely known in professional circles throughout the state.
 
History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen Edwards Small & 
J. Larry Smith, Vol. I, Chicago, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1926, Page 
200