WILLIAM ROCKWELL CLOUGH # 2427, page 408.
While searching for another article, in “The Granite Monthly” of November 1920, the Editor discovered two obituaries with the photographs of these prominent men. The first was William Rockwell Clough who died on September 29, 1920 at Alton, N. H. He was the son of John Chesley and Lydia Jones Cloueh, was born in Manchester, N. H., ‘but spent his boyhood in Alton, the birthplace of his father. He was educated in the schools of Alton, Franklin Academy in Dover and the East-man Business College in Pough-keepsie, N. Y. As an expert ac-countant he was employed by the U. S. Internal Revenue service in Boston. In the Civil War he was commissioned a first lieutenant.
In early manhood he began his career as an inventor of such articles as miniature corkscrews, paper clips, and the machinery for their manufacture. In 1875 he established this business in Newark, N. J., then ten years later he transferred the factory to Alton. He received high awards at international expositions at Philadelphia, Paris, Chicago and St. Louis and he had extensive interests in England, France, Italy and Germany where he traveled widely. In his home town he served on the school board and was justice of the District Court. Three terms in the State Legislature, 1897, 1899 and_1917 gave him state wide prominence. He was a 32nd degree Mason, Knight Templar and Shriner, member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
He was twice married and his second wife, Nellie Sophia Place of Alton survived him; also a daughter by his first marriage, Mrs. Gertrude Clough Dugan, and a son, William Rockwell, Jr. by his second marriage. “He was a successful man of affairs, interested in the public weal, and of wide acquaintance both in this country and over seas.”
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