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Clayton Abbott was born in a log house three and one-half miles east of Stockton on March 9, 1900, the fourth child in a family of nine.
Clayton completed the first six grades of school in the Alder District, then entered the seventh grade in Stockton, commuting daily from his home. After five years in the Stockton Schools and a hitch in the Navy, he entered the Southwest Missouri State College at Springfield, where he graduated with the B.S. degree in 1924. He taught one year in the high school at Momence, Illinois, then entered the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and earned the Master of Arts degree from there in 1926. He later taught school three years in the Philippine Islands, and one and half years in California.
Clayton was married in California in 1931, and has three children: Stella Emery of Eugene, Oregon; Mary Kenner of Los Angeles, California; and James, a son who was born mentally retarded, and now is in an institution at San Jose, California. Clayton's marriage was terminated by divorce in 1946.
In 1935, Mr. Abbott accepted employment with the California State Employment Service at Stockton, California. This was at the height of the great influx into California of refugees from the dust bowl areas of the central west. As Supervisor of the Placement Division, Mr. Abbott directed these migrant workers to employers in the fruit and vegetable growing areas of the San Joaquin Valley. When World War II started he was transferred by the Department to Long Beach, the center of national defense activities in the southern part of the state. There he supervised the distribution of war workers to defense jobs throughout the Pacific Coast.
Mr. Abbott retired in the spring of 1962, and since then has pursued many hobbies. He enjoyed golf, fishing, and hunting. In his younger days he was quite competent in competitive athletics, and in 1923 played football on a team at SMS which won the State Championship. His greatest athletic honors were in track and field events, in which on two different years he won the running high jump for the Inter-Collegiate Championship for the State of Missouri.
After retirement Clayton returned to his home county and began to realize his life-long ambition of writing its history. His first book was a small paperback entitled, "Back to the Walls," which was about his family, starting with the Wall Family who migrated to Cedar County by ox-drawn covered wagons in 1849. He has also written a number of historical articles for periodicals. In the fall of 1967 "Historical Sketches of Cedar County" was published and by 1970 two printings of 1000 copies has been sold.
In June of 1967, Mr. Abbott married Mildred Kirkpatrick Nelson, a Stockton High School teacher.
Clayton's brothers and sisters are: Lessie Gannaway, Loma, Sherman, U.F., Orba Rickman, Noble, Nola Dickman, and Virginia Francis. Lessie, Nola and Virginia Francis are now deceased.
Mr. Abbott is buried in the Stockton Cemetery, Stockton Missouri as you enter into the cemetery to the right. He & his quest for history will be missed in Cedar County.
Clayton Abbott was born in a log house three and one-half miles east of Stockton on March 9, 1900, the fourth child in a family of nine.
Clayton completed the first six grades of school in the Alder District, then entered the seventh grade in Stockton, commuting daily from his home. After five years in the Stockton Schools and a hitch in the Navy, he entered the Southwest Missouri State College at Springfield, where he graduated with the B.S. degree in 1924. He taught one year in the high school at Momence, Illinois, then entered the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and earned the Master of Arts degree from there in 1926. He later taught school three years in the Philippine Islands, and one and half years in California.
Clayton was married in California in 1931, and has three children: Stella Emery of Eugene, Oregon; Mary Kenner of Los Angeles, California; and James, a son who was born mentally retarded, and now is in an institution at San Jose, California. Clayton's marriage was terminated by divorce in 1946.
In 1935, Mr. Abbott accepted employment with the California State Employment Service at Stockton, California. This was at the height of the great influx into California of refugees from the dust bowl areas of the central west. As Supervisor of the Placement Division, Mr. Abbott directed these migrant workers to employers in the fruit and vegetable growing areas of the San Joaquin Valley. When World War II started he was transferred by the Department to Long Beach, the center of national defense activities in the southern part of the state. There he supervised the distribution of war workers to defense jobs throughout the Pacific Coast.
Mr. Abbott retired in the spring of 1962, and since then has pursued many hobbies. He enjoyed golf, fishing, and hunting. In his younger days he was quite competent in competitive athletics, and in 1923 played football on a team at SMS which won the State Championship. His greatest athletic honors were in track and field events, in which on two different years he won the running high jump for the Inter-Collegiate Championship for the State of Missouri.
After retirement Clayton returned to his home county and began to realize his life-long ambition of writing its history. His first book was a small paperback entitled, "Back to the Walls," which was about his family, starting with the Wall Family who migrated to Cedar County by ox-drawn covered wagons in 1849. He has also written a number of historical articles for periodicals. In the fall of 1967 "Historical Sketches of Cedar County" was published and by 1970 two printings of 1000 copies has been sold.
In June of 1967, Mr. Abbott married Mildred Kirkpatrick Nelson, a Stockton High School teacher.
Clayton's brothers and sisters are: Lessie Gannaway, Loma, Sherman, U.F., Orba Rickman, Noble, Nola Dickman, and Virginia Francis. Lessie, Nola and Virginia Francis are now deceased.
Mr. Abbott is buried in the Stockton Cemetery, Stockton Missouri as you enter into the cemetery to the right. He & his quest for history will be missed in Cedar County.
U S Navy WWI:
Clayton Abbott was born in a log house three and one-half miles east of Stockton on March 9, 1900, the fourth child in a family of nine.
Clayton completed the first six grades of school in the Alder District, then entered the seventh grade in Stockton, commuting daily from his home. After five years in the Stockton Schools and a hitch in the Navy, he entered the Southwest Missouri State College at Springfield, where he graduated with the B.S. degree in 1924. He taught one year in the high school at Momence, Illinois, then entered the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and earned the Master of Arts degree from there in 1926. He later taught school three years in the Philippine Islands, and one and half years in California.
Clayton was married in California in 1931, and has three children: Stella Emery of Eugene, Oregon; Mary Kenner of Los Angeles, California; and James, a son who was born mentally retarded, and now is in an institution at San Jose, California. Clayton's marriage was terminated by divorce in 1946.
In 1935, Mr. Abbott accepted employment with the California State Employment Service at Stockton, California. This was at the height of the great influx into California of refugees from the dust bowl areas of the central west. As Supervisor of the Placement Division, Mr. Abbott directed these migrant workers to employers in the fruit and vegetable growing areas of the San Joaquin Valley. When World War II started he was transferred by the Department to Long Beach, the center of national defense activities in the southern part of the state. There he supervised the distribution of war workers to defense jobs throughout the Pacific Coast.
Mr. Abbott retired in the spring of 1962, and since then has pursued many hobbies. He enjoyed golf, fishing, and hunting. In his younger days he was quite competent in competitive athletics, and in 1923 played football on a team at SMS which won the State Championship. His greatest athletic honors were in track and field events, in which on two different years he won the running high jump for the Inter-Collegiate Championship for the State of Missouri.
After retirement Clayton returned to his home county and began to realize his life-long ambition of writing its history. His first book was a small paperback entitled, "Back to the Walls," which was about his family, starting with the Wall Family who migrated to Cedar County by ox-drawn covered wagons in 1849. He has also written a number of historical articles for periodicals. In the fall of 1967 "Historical Sketches of Cedar County" was published and by 1970 two printings of 1000 copies has been sold.
In June of 1967, Mr. Abbott married Mildred Kirkpatrick Nelson, a Stockton High School teacher.
Clayton's brothers and sisters are: Lessie Gannaway, Loma, Sherman, U.F., Orba Rickman, Noble, Nola Dickman, and Virginia Francis. Lessie, Nola and Virginia Francis are now deceased.
Mr. Abbott is buried in the Stockton Cemetery, Stockton Missouri as you enter into the cemetery to the right. He & his quest for history will be missed in Cedar County.
Clayton Abbott was born in a log house three and one-half miles east of Stockton on March 9, 1900, the fourth child in a family of nine.
Clayton completed the first six grades of school in the Alder District, then entered the seventh grade in Stockton, commuting daily from his home. After five years in the Stockton Schools and a hitch in the Navy, he entered the Southwest Missouri State College at Springfield, where he graduated with the B.S. degree in 1924. He taught one year in the high school at Momence, Illinois, then entered the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and earned the Master of Arts degree from there in 1926. He later taught school three years in the Philippine Islands, and one and half years in California.
Clayton was married in California in 1931, and has three children: Stella Emery of Eugene, Oregon; Mary Kenner of Los Angeles, California; and James, a son who was born mentally retarded, and now is in an institution at San Jose, California. Clayton's marriage was terminated by divorce in 1946.
In 1935, Mr. Abbott accepted employment with the California State Employment Service at Stockton, California. This was at the height of the great influx into California of refugees from the dust bowl areas of the central west. As Supervisor of the Placement Division, Mr. Abbott directed these migrant workers to employers in the fruit and vegetable growing areas of the San Joaquin Valley. When World War II started he was transferred by the Department to Long Beach, the center of national defense activities in the southern part of the state. There he supervised the distribution of war workers to defense jobs throughout the Pacific Coast.
Mr. Abbott retired in the spring of 1962, and since then has pursued many hobbies. He enjoyed golf, fishing, and hunting. In his younger days he was quite competent in competitive athletics, and in 1923 played football on a team at SMS which won the State Championship. His greatest athletic honors were in track and field events, in which on two different years he won the running high jump for the Inter-Collegiate Championship for the State of Missouri.
After retirement Clayton returned to his home county and began to realize his life-long ambition of writing its history. His first book was a small paperback entitled, "Back to the Walls," which was about his family, starting with the Wall Family who migrated to Cedar County by ox-drawn covered wagons in 1849. He has also written a number of historical articles for periodicals. In the fall of 1967 "Historical Sketches of Cedar County" was published and by 1970 two printings of 1000 copies has been sold.
In June of 1967, Mr. Abbott married Mildred Kirkpatrick Nelson, a Stockton High School teacher.
Clayton's brothers and sisters are: Lessie Gannaway, Loma, Sherman, U.F., Orba Rickman, Noble, Nola Dickman, and Virginia Francis. Lessie, Nola and Virginia Francis are now deceased.
Mr. Abbott is buried in the Stockton Cemetery, Stockton Missouri as you enter into the cemetery to the right. He & his quest for history will be missed in Cedar County.
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