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William McNeill Clough (Platte County, Missouri, lawyer. )

b. 1831-09-29 d. 1883-01-26

Platte County, Missouri, lawyer. Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, native. Son of William Clough and Mary Clough. Married to Mary Ann Scott Embry Clough in Platte County, Missouri, on May 1, 1855. Father of Mary Nancy Clough, James Clough, and Amanda R. Clough. Graduate of Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in 1853. Admitted to the Missouri and Kansas bars in 1854. Farmer in St. Charles County, Missouri, in 1850. Attorney in Platte County in 1860. Attorney in Lawrence County, Kansas, in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, St. Charles County, District No. 78, p. 53A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Missouri, Platte County, Pettis Township, p. 639.

Kansas State Census (1865), Population Schedules, Kansas, Leavenworth County, Leavenworth, Ward 1, p. 32-3.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kansas, Leavenworth County, Leavenworth, Ward 1, p. 286A.

"The Angel of Death," The Leavenworth Evening Standard (Leavenworth, KS), January 26, 1883.

"DEATH OF WM. MC N. CLOUGH." The Leavenworth Weekly Times (Leavenworth, KS), February 1, 1883.

"William McNeill Clough (1831-1883)," Find A Grave, Memorial 136371264, accessed July 5, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136371264.

Citation

Clough, William McNeill. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200666 (November 12, 2026).

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