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CLEMENT, A. F., furniture dealer, P. O. Clarinda; born August 21, 1832, in New York state. At seventeen he went to Kenton county, Kentucky. There he matured to manhood, and was educated in the common schools. At the age of nineteen he began to learn the boat builder’s trade, at which he worked for about two years, after which he was a pilot on tow-boats. In 1857 he went to Grant county, Wisconsin, where he bought and improved three farms, selling them as fast as he got them under a good state of cultivation. In 1867 he came to Iowa, and located in Osage, Mitchell county, where he opened a furniture store, which he ran for two years. In 1869 he came to Page county, locating in Clarinda, and bought out the furniture store of Mr. Clevenger, on the south side of the public square, where he did business until 1875. He then built his present fine and commodious building, and moved his stock therein He was married July 22, 1855, to Miss Eliza Casteel, of Cincinnati. They have a family of four children: Mary A. (teacher in the public school) , Jennie (wife of Jacob Loy, Jr.), Alice and Minnie. Have buried one son: Stillman, who was drowned in Nodaway river, in 1869, soon after arriving here.