A most instructive booklet, “Fundamental Truths Taught by the New York State Milk Pricing Experiment and Services and Protection Rendered by the Division of Milk Control,” was sent by Rev. Maxwell L. Clough to the editor. The brother of Cousin Maxwell has been a member of our Society since its beginning. He is Laurence L. Clough of Delmar, N. Y., and is Assistant Director of the New York Division of Milk Control. He has been employed by the Department of Agriculture in New York since 1933. This booklet contains 29 pages of information about licensing and bonding milk dealers, producer price fixing, standards of dairy products and state and federal control laws with many additional topics that are informative reading for consumers and agriculturists. Mr. Clough has taken an active part in the development of marketing programs for milk control and lectures in Leadership Training School classes sponsored by the Metropolitan Cooperative Milk Producers Bargaining Agency.
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Members may recall Cousin Eda Clough Martin of Littleton, N. H., who was one of the speakers at the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Mass., when Cousin Will Clough was president. Cousin Eda is a veteran member of the New Hampshire State Legislature (she is referenced in a few locations within this PDF– Editor) with her hat in the ring this year for the position of State Senator, which she has earned by years of experience in the House. In 1925 Eva Clough Speare was elected President of the New Hampshire Federation of Women’s Clubs, an organization of 14,000 women in the state. In 1958, Mildred Clow Culick, of Exeter, N. H., will become President. Although she is the daughter of Dr. Fred Clow, late of Wolfeboro, N. H., a skilled physician in his native town and hospital, Eva and Mildred are descendants of John Cluff, as his pension papers spell his name, from Arundel (Kennebunkport) Maine. Thus the Cluffs, Clows and Cloughs prefer to write their names, although all three are descendants of Samuel Clough-4.
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The mail brings knowledge of many members of the clan if not of the family of John Clough. During the winter an exchange of letters with Forest Weldon Clough of Fort Worth, Texas has presented a lineage problem. The great-grandfather of Mr. Clough was born in Georgia about the beginning of the 19th century, and soon became an orphan. No previous lineage can be traced in Georgia and this grandfather moved to Texas when a youth. No descendant of our John is known to have lived in Georgia before Jonathan True Clough emigrated there from Northfield, N. H., in 1837. Wish that the lineage of Forest might be traced to our branch, because he is a man with the stamina of the family. He writes that he is 49 years of age and has been crippled by polio the greater part of his life. He proves his courage, for he gets about in wheel chairs, is employed by KFJZ-TV Channel 11, lives a mile from the office and, in pleasant weather, he rides back and forth in a battery powered motor chair. In inclement weather his wife drives the car for him. He has two children, Susan, now 15, and George, 11 years of age. On February 13, 1958, Dr. George 0. Clough, father of Forest, died in a Dallas hospital, at the age of 80 years. He was a prominent educator, founder of Tyler Junior College in 1926 and head. of the Southern Methodist University Extension Division from 1934 until his retirement in 1948. He was a graduate of Texas University in both B.A. and M.A. degrees and Ph.D. from New York University. He was famous for his vocational guidance work and held the office of president in teachers associations in Texas. Can anybody suggest a clue to this line of the Clough Clan?
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At Christmas, Susan Clough Bausch wrote from her New York City apartment, “Here I am, safe and sound, after seven cruises to South America, a total of 90,734 miles,” and she was leaving immediately for another trip. She has a position on board ship in the gift and book shop.
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Vivian is in Washington, as we go to press, for D. A. R. Congress, Erskine is flying frequently to conferences in Chicago for the leather business, Dan and Norma have their time filled with three children and Robert and Martha and two children are in Paris living not far from the Eiffel Tower in an apartment hotel and Robert is studying with a famous blind organist.
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The most recent communication arrived the last of February from Mrs. M. C. O’Donnal of Danville, Illinois, who was searching for her Revolutionary data in order that her daughters might become members of the D. A. R. From John-1, John-2, Benoni-3, Ichabod-4, Zacheus-5 their revolutionary ancestor, they trace to William-6 who went to Canada, David-7, Moses-8 born in Danville, Canada, Heber-9 of Provo, Utah, Sarah Ann-1 born in Pima, Arizona, Melvin C.-11 born in Chihuahua, Mexico, and Beverly. O’Donnal-12, born in Tucson, Arizona. What an interesting geographical trail. In this connection, Ruth Cluff Knight has been puzzled -by references to Canada East and Canada West. Recently she discovered in Johnson’s New Universal Encyclopaedia, 1874, Vol. 1, page 746: “Upper Canada was settled mostly by English emigrants. In 1791 Canada was divided into two provinces called Upper and Lower Canada (afterward called Canada West and Canada East)” Canada West corresponded, generally speaking, to the Province of Ontario. The William-6 line went to Canada East and helped to found the town of Danville in 1804. Other Cloughs were at Stanstead, Canada. For the information of the Vermont Cloughs from Jabish of Charlestown, Vermont, who cannot be identified as yet, recently vital records of Canada East have been printed and when time permits, more study will be given with the hope that the line that went to Iowa from Concord, Vermont, may be discovered, because it seems probable that Jabish was ‘born in Canada. Cousin Clarence has been interested to help this lost Iowa line to find their connection with our John of Salisbury.
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Henry and Ruth Knight are too busy to follow the Cloughs at present. Henry drives to Dover, N. H., to work on a night position, Son Dave has completed his house and is living there near his parents with his wife and baby son. Son Bob, in Limestone Air Base, has a son about a year and a half in age and a second baby will soon arrive. Ruth is too busy being a grandmother to bother with her hobby in the Probate Court House in Alfred.
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The name of our family with its many forms of spelling is no exception to the plight of many others. Since the last Clough Bulletin was issued, Mrs. Charlotte Duston of Contoocook, N.- H., has corrected two mistakes that were printed in the article, “The Hopkinton Clough.” Our information was that Mary, daughter of Charles-6 married George F. Putnam. (See page 326 for the list of children of Charles-6 in the Clough Genealogy.) Mary married Edward Wayne Stanley, but Flora married George F. Putnam. The youngest daughter Josie married Arthur M. Duston who were parents of Freeman C., Arthur S., and John C. Note the spelling with the final syllable ton, not tin as is usually used. Mrs. Duston states that on the marriage certificate of Thomas and Hannah (Eastman) the name is spelled Duston. Mrs. Duston’s mother is Caroline (Emerson) Fitts, a direct descendant of Hannah (Emerson) Duston who scalped the Indians at Penacook, N. H. Since the lines of Isaac-3 of Salem married daughters of the first Thomas Dustin or Duston, the puzzle to trace the cousin relationship between the Clough and Duston Families would be a task for expert genealogists.