Schley-Sumter County GaArchives Biographies.....Wm. C. P. Cleghorn January 5 1813 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Harris Hill harrishill@starband.net June 5, 2003, 9:42 pm Author: "Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia & Florida" This bio was abstracted form "Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida," reproduced from an 1889 edition in the publisher's private collection, Easley South Carolina. (Note: This is an non-copyrighted publication.) WM. C.P. CLEGHHORN was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Jan. 5, 1813. His father, Richard Cleghorn, was a prominent lawyer of Edinburgh and his mother was Jean (Piere) Cleghorn, the eldest daughter of Commodore John Piere of Edinburgh. W.C.P. Cleghorn was the sixth of a family of eight children. He was brought up in Edinburgh and graduated from the Edinburgh College when fifteen years of age. Very soon afterwards he became a sailor, which vocation he followed until 1834, when he settled in Jamiaca, W.I., and married his first wife there. He kept books until 1840, when he went to New York, but remained there a short time only, when he came south and located at Montgomery, Ala., and in that portion of the country taught school until 1857, when he removed to Americus, Ga., and followed school-teaching and bookeeping until 1870, when he removed to Ellaville, Ga., and took charge of a school, over which he presided for several years. Since that time he has been retired from active business. His first wife was Catherine Delpratt, whom he married in 1834. She bore him three children, all of whom died in infancy, and she herself died about 1839. In 1841 Mr. Cleghorn married Drady J. Barton, daughter of Benjamin Barton of Montgomery, Ala. To this union were born six children, viz.: William, Richard, Jane, Catherine, Isabella and Andrew J. The second Mrs. Cleghorn died in 1883. Mr. Cleghorn has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for more than forty years, and for many years has been a local minister. he is a man of rare conversational powers and can relate many incidents in his life that are interesting to both old and young. He has been in some seaport of every country on the globe, is one of the best informed men in the South, and is a Royal Arch Mason. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb