As reported on page two of The Bulletin of the John Clough Genealogical Society- June 1, 1954, Vol. 9 No. 1.
Note: The Editor was also able to secure the following article from The Granite Monthly, NH State Magazine, Volume LII, Concord, NH, November 1920 (Public Domain). Please open the PDF here Hon Jeremiah A Clough.
Hon. Jeremiah Abner Clough (No. 1641, Page 60).
When the Genealogy was published, only the briefest biographical data was found about this prominent farmer and statesman who was born either in Canterbury or Loudon, N. H., on November 22, 1846. Ezekiel, great- grandfather of Jeremiah, settled in Loudon about the time of the Revolution and on Clough Hill began to clear a farm about a mile from Loudon Center. Jeremiah’s father, Abner, lived for a time in Canterbury and Jeremiah may have been born there before his parents went to Loudon to live on the Clough farm.
In Loudon, Jeremiah attended the district school and later went to Pittsfield Academy. He married Nellie Peverley of Canterbury and they lived with his parents in Loudon where Jeremiah became “one of the most prosperous and enterprising farmers in Merrimack County.” He carried on so-called “mixed farming” and later specialized in dairy production and maple sugar. Corn was a famous crop and a distant cousin, Col. David M. Clough of Canterbury (# 1601, page 417) was known as “The Corn King of New Hampshire.” On the death of his father, the son inherited the Clough farm and also owned out-laying lands to the extent of over 500 acres.
During the following twenty years, Jeremiah managed his farming lands, but in 1901 he purchased a home on South State Street in Concord where he re-sided the remainder of his life. No children were born, but the couple made several boys welcome to their home. One, Dr. Wilson E. Hunt of Malden, Mass., graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard, was the pride of Jeremiah’s old age.
In 1897, Jeremiah represented Loudon in the State Legislature and again in 1907 and in the State Senate in 1908, serving in both bodies upon important committees. His biographer summed up his career thus: “He was an honest, upright, public-spirited citizen, interested in all matters pertaining to the public good.”