Wilbur Fiske Clough (M)
b. about 1836, d. 1896
3 Generation Pedigree
Relationship=Father of John Casper Clough.
Relationship=7th cousin 4 times removed of Seth Alexander Moore.
Reference=11

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Clough Family Timeline
Ancestors of John Casper Clough
Descendants of Reverend Mace Richard Clough

     Wilbur Fiske Clough was born about 1836 at Georgia.^1,2 He was also reported to have been born at Maine.^3,4,5 He was the son of Reverend Mace Richard Clough and Caroline True Harmon. Wilbur Fiske Clough appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Woolwich, Lincoln County, Maine, in the household of his parents Mace and Caroline.⁶
     The activities of the underground railroad before the start of the Civil War were, by necessity, kept very secret. However, on January 25, 1859, Wilbur was a participant in one of the few such actions to ever be made public. The full account of the event can be found in John Doy's book: The Narrative of John Doy, of Lawrence, Kansas which you can read by clicking here.^7,8,9 Wilbur Fiske Clough appeared on the 1860 Federal Census of Wakarusa Township, Douglas County, Kansas, in the household of his parents Mace and Caroline.¹⁰ Wilbur also appeared on the 1860 Federal Census, of Mountain City, Arapahoe County, Kansas, enumerated 20 September 1860, in the household of L.J. Immions.¹¹ He lived in 1866 at Black Hawk, Gilpin County, Colorado.¹² He married Jennie Case, daughter of Frank Case and Laura Arthur, on 6 March 1866 at The Tremont House, Denver, Arapahoe (now Denver) County, Colorado.^12,13 Wilbur Fiske Clough was a farmer in 1875 at Centropolis Township, Franklin County, Kansas.¹⁴ Wilbur and Jennie appeared on the 1875 Kansas State Census, of Centropolis Township enumerated 1875, the value of their real estate was listed as 1300 and personal property at 300. Their children Mace Richard, Ernest W., Caroline T. and John Casper were listed as living with them.¹⁵ Wilbur and Jennie appeared on the 1880 Federal Census of Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas, enumerated 11 June 1880. Their children Mace Richard, Ernest W., Caroline T. and John Casper were listed as living with them.¹⁶ Wilbur and Jennie appeared on the 1885 Kansas State Census, of Baker, Crawford County, Kansas, enumerated 1 March 1885. Their children Mace Richard, Ernest W., Caroline T. and John Casper were listed as living with them.¹⁷ Wilbur Fiske Clough died in 1896 at Choteau, Mayes County, Oklahoma. He was buried at Pawnee, Pawnee County, Oklahoma.

Children of Wilbur Fiske Clough and Jennie Case

Mace Richard Clough b. 13 Apr 1868, d. 4 Nov 1945¹⁸
Ernest W. Clough b. 20 Feb 1870, d. 28 Nov 1905¹⁸
Caroline T. Clough b. 13 May 1872, d. 26 Nov 1962¹⁸
John Casper Clough b. 7 Jul 1874, d. 16 Mar 1973¹⁸

Notes and Citations:

1. [S114] Wilbur F. Clough household, 1875 Kansas State Census Kansas State Census, Franklin County, Kansas, population schedule, Centropolis Township, enumeration date 1 March 1875, page 18, line 1, dwelling 1, family 1 (Online: Ancestry.com, Inc., 2002), Image 10 of 16, http://www.ancestry.com/, subscription database, (Digital scan of original records from the Kansas State Historical Society, micropublication ks1875_7), accessed 25 August 2007, lists age as 37 and birthplace as Ga.3.
2. [S59] Mace R. Clough household, 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Douglas County, Kansas, population schedule, Wakarusa Township, enumeration date 5 July 1860, page 60, line 1, dwelling 433, family 408 (Online: Ancestry.com, Inc., 2002), Image 60 of 240, http://www.ancestry.com/, subscription database, (Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC, micropublication M653_349), accessed 30 November 2001, , age listed as 24 and birthplace as GA.
3. [S48] Mace R. Clough household, 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Lincoln County, Maine, population schedule, Woolwich, enumeration date 29 Aug 1850, page 498/246B, line 2, dwelling 221, family 275 (Online: Ancestry.com, Inc., 2002), Image 34 of 34, http://www.ancestry.com/, subscription database, (Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC, micropublication M432_261), accessed 19 November 2001, , age listed as 14 and birthplace as Maine, attended school during the year.
4. [S131] L.J. Immions household, 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Arapahoe County, Kansas, population schedule, Mountain City, enumeration date 20 September 1860, page 465/275, line 33, dwelling 5406 (Online: Ancestry.com, Inc., 2002), Image 277 of 865, http://www.ancestry.com/, subscription database, (Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC, micropublication M653_348), accessed 30 November 2001, , age listed as 24 and birthplace as Maine.
5. [S124] W. F. Clough household, 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Franklin County, Kansas, population schedule, Ottawa, ward 1, enumeration district (ED) 87, enumeration date 11 June 1880, page 37/119A, line 15, dwelling 370, family 370 (Online: Ancestry.com, Inc., 2002), Image 37 of 47, http://www.ancestry.com/, subscription database, (Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC, micropublication T9_381), accessed 8 March 2002, , age listed as 41 and birthplace as Maine.
6. [S48] Mace R. Clough household, 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Lincoln County, Maine, population schedule, Woolwich, enumeration date 29 Aug 1850, page 498/246B, line 2, dwelling 221, family 275 (Online: Ancestry.com, Inc., 2002), Image 34 of 34, http://www.ancestry.com/, subscription database, (Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC, micropublication M432_261), accessed 19 November 2001, .
7. [S372] John Doy, The Narrative of John Doy, of Lawrence, Kansas (New York: T. Holman, 1860; reprint http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/: University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service: Making of America (online), 2003), Doy never gives Wilbur's first name in his account.
8. [S374] William G. Cutler, History of the State of Kansas (Chicago: A. T. Andreas, 1883; reprint http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/: Kansas Collection, 1999), "In January, 1859, Dr. John Doy, his son Charles, and Mr. Clough, all of Lawrence, started from that city to conduct thirteen negroes by way of the Underground Railroad, through Nebraska, and taken refuge in Lawrence. The party was intercepted on the north bank of the Kaw, a few miles from Lawrence, and fifty miles from the eastern boundary of the Territory, by a treaty of Missourians and Pro-slavery Kansans and taken across the Missouri to St. Joseph, where, after a pretended examination before a Justice of the Peace, in default of $5,000 bail, Doy and his son were committed to prison in the Platte County Jail on a charge of stealing negroes from Missouri- a crime punishable with death, according to the statues of that State. On Doy's first trial, the jury failed to agree; on the second trial, which took place at St. Joseph, June, 1859, the jury brought in verdict of guilty and Doy and his son were sentenced to the penitentiary for five years. Gov. Shannon and Gen A. C. Davis, of Kansas Territory, and Judge Spratt, of Platte County, Mo, had been employed as prisoners' counsel, and in accordance with a motion made by the defense, judgment in the case was arrested sixty days, and the prisoners remanded to the St. Joseph jail, from whence Charles Doy effected his escape. Doy's friends in Lawrence saw that the time had now arrived for them to attempt his rescue-before he should be removed from the jail at St. Joseph. A party for that purpose was accordingly formed, led by Maj. James B. Abbott, now of DeSoto, Johnson Co., Kan., and consisting, besides himself, of Silas Soule, Joshua A. Pike, S. J. Willis, Joseph Gardner, John E. Steward, Thomas Simmons, Charles Doy, Lenox and George W. Hays. The party organized at Lawrence, and then dispersed to meet and arrange their plan of operations at Elwood, opposite St. Joseph. The party crossed the Missouri during the night of Saturday, July 23, a little below the St. Joseph ferry, and after remaining some little time in the city, under assumed characters, familiarizing themselves with the streets and localities, and establishing communication with the prisoner, they finally made their way to the jail on a dark night, and in the midst of a driving storm, and on pretense of securing a horse thief whom they had caught, and who could not well be examined before morning, induced the jailer to give them access to the interior of the building. As soon as they had accomplished this purpose, they made their way to the cell of Dr. Doy, and prevailed upon the jailer, by the unanswerable argument of a loaded revolver at his heart, to offer no resistance to the consummation of their design. The prisoner was released, and the party proceeded, unmolested to the street, and by mingling with the crowds just leaving the theaters, and aided by the alarm and confusion occasioned by a fire alarm, succeeded in gaining the opposite shore in safety, where they were met by friends and conducted to Lawrence."
9. [S373] Letters of Julia Louisa Lovejoy, 1856-1864 (Part Four 1859), online http://www.kancoll.org/khq/1948/48_1_lovejoy.htm, Kansas State Historical Society (The Kansas Collection, http://www.kancoll.org/index.html), "Last week a party of fugitives had fled from the land of bondage and stripes, and reached Lawrence. There the good Samaritans procured a team, hired a teamster, and Dr. [John] Doy, a member of our church, set off with the company on their way to Iowa. The pro-slavery men hired a spy for $500 to watch their movements and report. The team with fugitives passed over the country unmolested, not suspecting they were betrayed, crossed the Missouri River at Kickapoo, a few miles below Sumner; and when they had reached a convenient spot a company of men rushed upon them and seized the whole party, and conveyed them as prisoners to Weston, Mo. The teamster was discharged on their being convinced that he was not an accessory in the plot-only hired to drive the horses; but Doy and his son were sentenced to be publicly whipped if they escaped with their life."
   
   Later in the same work:
   
   "Dr. Doy and son, after suffering the greatest indignities from the hands of a Missouri mob at Weston, having suffered maltreatment on their persons in the most shameful manner, were taken to a filthy jail in Platte City, and locked up in a loathsome place, that the Doctor in a letter says "is like a dark, small, filthy, iron cage, and no light allowed them but what they furnish from burning the fat from the pork which is allowed them for food." Their trial came off last Monday, when Mrs. Doy and her daughter went over, accompanied by Govs. Robinson and Shannon. The Herald of Freedom came in last night, in which was the following notice: "They would have been set at liberty but for fear of the mob, who were ready to take the matter into their own hands." They are remanded back to prison, but the probability is that by some means they will soon be restored to their family.
   We can now give definite information concerning the kidnapped and the kidnappers. The party were captured not far from Oskaloosa; the teamster was the son of Rev. Mace Clough, formerly of the Maine Conference; the captors were pro-slavery men, and among them Dr. Garvin, our postmaster at Lawrence; Mr. Whitley, formerly of Boston, and Jake Hurd, a drunken fellow.".
10. [S59] Mace R. Clough household, 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Douglas County, Kansas, population schedule, Wakarusa Township, enumeration date 5 July 1860, page 60, line 1, dwelling 433, family 408 (Online: Ancestry.com, Inc., 2002), Image 60 of 240, http://www.ancestry.com/, subscription database, (Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC, micropublication M653_349), accessed 30 November 2001, .
11. [S131] L.J. Immions household, 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Arapahoe County, Kansas, population schedule, Mountain City, enumeration date 20 September 1860, page 465/275, line 33, dwelling 5406 (Online: Ancestry.com, Inc., 2002), Image 277 of 865, http://www.ancestry.com/, subscription database, (Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC, micropublication M653_348), accessed 30 November 2001, , Arapahoe Co. is now part of Colorado, but was counted in 1860 in Kansas. The 1860 census for Mountain City is very confusing. William Walling, Wilbur Clough, and Louise (Clough) Walling all appear in different dwellings with other unrelated people. My only guess is that the enumerator visited work places on this day, which was a Thursday, and listed the people he found there.
12. [S56] Anonymous, "Rocky Mountain News Marriages 1866", Colorado Genealogist vol. 6 no. 1 (Jan 1945), page 6, "At the Tremont House, Mar. 6 1866, by Judge P. P. Wilcox, Mr. W.F. Clough of Black Hawk and Miss Jennie Case of Cold Spring Ranche."
13. [S115] The Arapahoe County Marriage Committee, compilers, Marriages of Arapahoe County, Colorado, 1859-1901: Including Territory that became Adams, Denver and other counties (Denver: The Colorado Genealogical Society, 1924), page 45, groom listed as W.F. Clough brides name listed as ARTHUR, Jane/Jennie Case.
14. [S114] Wilbur F. Clough household, 1875 Kansas State Census Kansas State Census, Franklin County, Kansas, population schedule, Centropolis Township, enumeration date 1 March 1875, page 18, line 1, dwelling 1, family 1 (Online: Ancestry.com, Inc., 2002), Image 10 of 16, http://www.ancestry.com/, subscription database, (Digital scan of original records from the Kansas State Historical Society, micropublication ks1875_7), accessed 25 August 2007, occupation listed as farmer.
15. [S114] Wilbur F. Clough household, 1875 Kansas State Census Kansas State Census, Franklin County, Kansas, population schedule, Centropolis Township, enumeration date 1 March 1875, page 18, line 1, dwelling 1, family 1 (Online: Ancestry.com, Inc., 2002), Image 10 of 16, http://www.ancestry.com/, subscription database, (Digital scan of original records from the Kansas State Historical Society, micropublication ks1875_7), accessed 25 August 2007.
16. [S124] W. F. Clough household, 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Franklin County, Kansas, population schedule, Ottawa, ward 1, enumeration district (ED) 87, enumeration date 11 June 1880, page 37/119A, line 15, dwelling 370, family 370 (Online: Ancestry.com, Inc., 2002), Image 37 of 47, http://www.ancestry.com/, subscription database, (Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, DC, micropublication T9_381), accessed 8 March 2002, .
17. [S599] Wilbur F. Clough household, 1885 Kansas State Census Kansas State Census, Crawford County, Kansas, population schedule, Baker Township, enumeration date 1 March 1885, page 18, line 11, dwelling 1, family 1 (Online: Ancestry.com, Inc., 2002), Image 37 of 131, http://www.ancestry.com/, subscription database, (Digital scan of original records from the Kansas State Historical Society, micropublication KS1885_32), accessed 26 August 2007.
18. [S334] Raymond B. Clough, Clough Genealogy (St. Mary's, West Virginia: published by the author, 1992).