Philip D. Clayton

Birth Date

1811-12-25

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Webster County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, deputy sheriff, court clerk, and attorney. Person County, North Carolina, native. Son of Richard Clayton and Nancy Day Clayton. Married to Nancy E. Cox Clayton in Hopkins County, Kentucky, on August 22, 1839. Father of William Clayton. Farmer from 1829 to 1852. Merchant in Vanderburgh from 1852 to 1857. Deputy sheriff of Webster County in 1859. United States census enumerator in Webster County in 1860. Clerk of the Webster County Court from 1860 to 1862. Admitted to the bar in 1862.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, Dixon, Subdivision 166, p. 202A.
J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State (Louisville: Battey Publishing, 1885), 1028-29.

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