BIO: H. B. CLARY, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 953 & 954.
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  H. B. CLARY,* postmaster at Grampian, Pa., and engaged in business as a 
painter and paperhanger, was born in Bloom township, Clearfield county, Pa., 
September 29, 1870, and is a son of John and a grandson of Rev. James Clary.
  John Clary was born in 1842, in Mercer county, Pa., and when twenty years of 
age came to Clearfield county, accompanying his parents.  His father was Rev. 
James Clary, who came to Penn township to preach the Baptist faith.  When the 
Civil war broke out, John Clary enlisted for service in the 105th Pa. Vol. Inf., 
known as the Wildcat regiment, and he was honorably discharged near Petersburg, 
Va., August 27, 1864.  He came home but never fully recovered from the injuries 
he had received, having been wounded thrice at the battle of Gettysburg and once 
at the battle of the Wilderness.  He survived until 1876, Thanksgiving Day in 
that year being the day of his burial.  He married Mary Ellen Hepburn, in Bloom 
township, who was born in Greenwood township, a daughter of John Hepburn, and 
she resides at Bell Landing, Pa.  He was a member of the Baptist church.  In 
national affairs he was a Republican but in local matters voted with the 
Democrats.  He served as a school director and as a justice of the peace in 
Bloom township.  While developing a farm and improving it, in Bloom township, he 
was also interested in lumbering.  He had four children:  Edgar Early, H. B., 
Kearney Patton (deceased) and Alice Blanche, who lives at Covington, Ky.
  Edgar Early Clary, the eldest of the family started to work in a tannery as a 
laborer and continued until he had worked his way up to the top and is now 
superintendent of one of the largest tanneries in the country, located at 
Richwood, W. Va.  He married Jennie Neff, of that place.
  H. B. Clary with his brothers and sisters attended school in Penn and 
Greenwood townships and afterward he learned the painting and paperhanging trade 
and for some years worked at it in different parts of the state.  At the 
outbreak of the Spanish-American war he enlisted for service, entering Co. L, 
5th Pa. Vol. Inf., of which he became corporal, and continued until the close of 
the war, returning home unharmed.  In 1902 he was appointed postmaster of 
Grampian and he has shown much public spirit and enterprise both in the manner 
of conducting the public office as well as in the management of his affairs.  He 
now has two rural mail routes established and the entire business of the office 
is carried on rapidly and efficiently.  In politics he is a Republican and he is 
a member of the borough council and is also borough auditor.
  In May, 1900, Mr. Clary was married to Miss Christiana Enzbranner, who was 
born in Blair county, Pa., December 23, 1876, a daughter of Peter and Margaret 
Enzbranner, natives of Germany.  Mr. and Mrs. Clary have two children, Jean 
Margaret and Frank Harris.  The grandmother of Mr. Clary, Susan Bigler, was a 
sister of Hon. William D. Bigler, once governor of Pennsylvania.