Person:Wilbur Clough (1)

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Wilbur Fiske Clough
b.Abt 1836 Georgia
d.1896 Choteau, Mayes County, Oklahoma
Parents and Siblings
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m. 2 Jun 1835
  1. Wilbur Fiske CloughAbt 1836 - 1896
  2. Louise Cora CloughAbt 1838 - 1896
  3. Caroline L. CloughAbt 1839 - Bef 1919
  4. Mary Ella Clough1846 - 1932
  5. Ada M. CloughAbt 1848 -
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Wilbur Fiske CloughAbt 1836 - 1896
  • W.  Jennie CaseEst 1845 - 1912
m. 6 Mar 1866
  1. Mace Richard Clough1868 - 1945
  2. Ernest W. Clough1870 - 1905
  3. Caroline T. Clough1872 - 1962
  4. John Casper Clough1874 - 1973
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Facts and Events
Name Wilbur Fiske Clough
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] Abt 1836 Georgia
Alt Birth[3][4][5] Maine
Other[6][7][8][12] 25 Jan 1859 Anecdote
Census[9][13] 20 Sep 1860 Mountain City, Arapahoe County, Kansas
Residence[10] 1866 Black Hawk, Gilpin County, Colorado
Marriage 6 Mar 1866 The Tremont House, Denver, Arapahoe (now Denver) County, Coloradoto Jennie Case
Occupation[11] 1875 Centropolis Township, Franklin County, Kansasfarmer
Census 1875 Centropolis Township, Franklin County, Kansaswith Jennie Case
Census 11 Jun 1880 Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansaswith Jennie Case
Census 1 Mar 1885 Baker, Crawford County, Kansaswith Jennie Case
Death? 1896 Choteau, Mayes County, Oklahoma
Burial? Pawnee, Pawnee County, Oklahoma
Reference Number 11
References
  1. ↑ 1860, Household: Mace R. Clough, County: Douglas, State: Kansas, Family Number: 408, Dwelling Number: 433, Image: 60 of 240, Page: 60, Line N. (Wakarusa Township, 30 November 2001, Census Date, 5 July 1860)
    age listed as 24 and birthplace as GA.
  2. ↑ 1875 Kansas State Census, Household: Wilbur F. Clough, County: Franklin, State: Kansas, Family Number: 1, Dwelling Number: 1, Image: 10 of 16. (Centropolis Township, 25 August 2007, Census Date, 1 March 1875)
    lists age as 37 and birthplace as Ga.3.
  3. ↑ 1850, Household: Mace R. Clough, County: Lincoln, State: Maine, Family Number: 275, Dwelling Number: 221, Image: 34 of 34, Page: 498/246B, Li. (Woolwich, 19 November 2001, Census Date, 29 Aug 1850)
    age listed as 14 and birthplace as Maine, attended school during the year.
  4. ↑ 1880, Household: W. F. Clough, County: Franklin, State: Kansas, Family Number: 370, Dwelling Number: 370, Image: 37 of 47, Page: 37/119A, Enu. (ward 1, Ottawa, 8 March 2002, Census Date, 11 June 1880)
    age listed as 41 and birthplace as Maine.
  5. ↑ 1860, Household: L.J. Immions, County: Arapahoe, State: Kansas, Dwelling Number: 5406, Image: 277 of 865, Page: 465/275, Line Number: 33, Fil. (Mountain City, 30 November 2001, Census Date, 20 September 1860)
    age listed as 24 and birthplace as Maine.
  6. ↑ Doy, John. The Narrative of John Doy, of Lawrence, Kansas, Second Publisher: University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service: Making of Amer. (T. Holman, New York, 1860, Second Date, 2003)
    Doy never gives Wilbur's first name in his account.
  7. ↑ Kansas State Historical Society. Letters of Julia Louisa Lovejoy, 1856-1864 (Part Four 1859), Url: http:/www.kancoll.org/khq/1948/48 1 lovejoy.htm
    "Last week a party of fugitives had fled from the land of bondage and stripes, and reached Lawrence. There the good Samaritans procured a team, hired a teamster, and Dr. [John] Doy, a member of our church, set off with the company on their way to Iowa. The pro-slavery men hired a spy for $500 to watch their movements and report. The team with fugitives passed over the country unmolested, not suspecting they were betrayed, crossed the Missouri River at Kickapoo, a few miles below Sumner; and when they had reached a convenient spot a company of men rushed upon them and seized the whole party, and conveyed them as prisoners to Weston, Mo. The teamster was discharged on their being convinced that he was not an accessory in the plot-only hired to drive the horses; but Doy and his son were sentenced to be publicly whipped if they escaped with their life." Later in the same work: "Dr. Doy and son, after suffering the greatest indignities from the hands of a Missouri mob at Weston, having suffered maltreatment on their persons in the most shameful manner, were taken to a filthy jail in Platte City, and locked up in a loathsome place, that the Doctor in a letter says "is like a dark, small, filthy, iron cage, and no light allowed them but what they furnish from burning the fat from the pork which is allowed them for food." Their trial came off last Monday, when Mrs. Doy and her daughter went over, accompanied by Govs. Robinson and Shannon. The Herald of Freedom came in last night, in which was the following notice: "They would have been set at liberty but for fear of the mob, who were ready to take the matter into their own hands." They are remanded back to prison, but the probability is that by some means they will soon be restored to their family. We can now give definite information concerning the kidnapped and the kidnappers. The party were captured not far from Oskaloosa; the teamster was the son of Rev. Mace Clough, formerly of the Maine Conference; the captors were pro-slavery men, and among them Dr. Garvin, our postmaster at Lawrence; Mr. Whitley, formerly of Boston, and Jake Hurd, a drunken fellow.".
  8. ↑ Cutler, William G. History of the State of Kansas, Second Publisher: Kansas Collection, Second Address: http:/www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/. (A. T. Andreas, Chicago, 1883, Second Date, 1999)
    "In January, 1859, Dr. John Doy, his son Charles, and Mr. Clough, all of Lawrence, started from that city to conduct thirteen negroes by way of the Underground Railroad, through Nebraska, and taken refuge in Lawrence. The party was intercepted on the north bank of the Kaw, a few miles from Lawrence, and fifty miles from the eastern boundary of the Territory, by a treaty of Missourians and Pro-slavery Kansans and taken across the Missouri to St. Joseph, where, after a pretended examination before a Justice of the Peace, in default of $5,000 bail, Doy and his son were committed to prison in the Platte County Jail on a charge of stealing negroes from Missouri- a crime punishable with death, according to the statues of that State. On Doy's first trial, the jury failed to agree; on the second trial, which took place at St. Joseph, June, 1859, the jury brought in verdict of guilty and Doy and his son were sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. Gov. Shannon and Gen A. C. Davis, of Kansas Territory, and Judge Spratt, of Platte County, Mo, had been employed as prisoners' counsel, and in accordance with a motion made by the defense, judgment in the case was arrested sixty days, and the prisoners remanded to the St. Joseph jail, from whence Charles Doy effected his escape. Doy's friends in Lawrence saw that the time had now arrived for them to attempt his rescue-before he should be removed from the jail at St. Joseph. A party for that purpose was accordingly formed, led by Maj. James B. Abbott, now of DeSoto, Johnson Co., Kan., and consisting, besides himself, of Silas Soule, Joshua A. Pike, S. J. Willis, Joseph Gardner, John E. Steward, Thomas Simmons, Charles Doy, Lenox and George W. Hays. The party organized at Lawrence, and then dispersed to meet and arrange their plan of operations at Elwood, opposite St. Joseph. The party crossed the Missouri during the night of Saturday, July 23, a little below the St. Joseph ferry, and after remaining some little time in the city, under assumed characters, familiarizing themselves with the streets and localities, and establishing communication with the prisoner, they finally made their way to the jail on a dark night, and in the midst of a driving storm, and on pretense of securing a horse thief whom they had caught, and who could not well be examined before morning, induced the jailer to give them access to the interior of the building. As soon as they had accomplished this purpose, they made their way to the cell of Dr. Doy, and prevailed upon the jailer, by the unanswerable argument of a loaded revolver at his heart, to offer no resistance to the consummation of their design. The prisoner was released, and the party proceeded, unmolested to the street, and by mingling with the crowds just leaving the theaters, and aided by the alarm and confusion occasioned by a fire alarm, succeeded in gaining the opposite shore in safety, where they were met by friends and conducted to Lawrence.".
  9. ↑ 1860, Household: L.J. Immions, County: Arapahoe, State: Kansas, Dwelling Number: 5406, Image: 277 of 865, Page: 465/275, Line Number: 33, Fil. (Mountain City, 30 November 2001, Census Date, 20 September 1860)
    Arapahoe Co. is now part of Colorado, but was counted in 1860 in Kansas. The 1860 census for Mountain City is very confusing. William Walling, Wilbur Clough, and Louise (Clough) Walling all appear in different dwellings with other unrelated people. My only guess is that the enumerator visited work places on this day, which was a Thursday, and listed the people he found there.
  10. ↑ Anonymous. Colorado Genealogist: Rocky Mountain News Marriages 1866, Volume: vol. 6 no. 1. (Jan 1945)
    page 6, "At the Tremont House, Mar. 6 1866, by Judge P. P. Wilcox, Mr. W.F. Clough of Black Hawk and Miss Jennie Case of Cold Spring Ranche.".
  11. ↑ 1875 Kansas State Census, Household: Wilbur F. Clough, County: Franklin, State: Kansas, Family Number: 1, Dwelling Number: 1, Image: 10 of 16. (Centropolis Township, 25 August 2007, Census Date, 1 March 1875)
    occupation listed as farmer.
  12. ↑ The activities of the underground railroad before the start of the Civil War were, by necessity, kept very secret. However, on January 25, 1859, Wilbur was a participant in one of the few such actions to ever be made public. The full account of the event can be found in John Doy's book: The Narrative of John Doy, of Lawrence, Kansas
  13. ↑ in the household of L.J. Immions
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