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CLEMMONS, DR. C. P. physician and. surgeon, for the past twenty years in practice at Carrollton, was born in Davidson Co., North Carolina, January, 1817; at twenty-one he became a resident of Louisville, Ky., where he entered the medical university, remaining three years, graduating as an M.D. in 1848. It may be here stated, that Dr. C. is, in every sense of the word; a self-made man; whose studies in the medical profession were made under difficulties that many would have given way under, and never have risen to any worthy position in life. From this institution he graduated with high honors. In 1841 he took up the practice of medicine. For eighteen years, he was a resident of Pike Co., Ill., where he obtained a large and lucrative practice. In 1858 the Doctor moved to Carrollton, where his skill as a physician soon becoming known, he secured a very liberal patronage. In 1862 he erected the large brick building east of court-house, where, from ‘62 until ‘76, he transacted a large drug business. In addition to this Dr. Clemmons owns some four or five other substantial dwellings in the city, and a country property, consisting of 227 acres of land, within a short distance of the city. In Nebraska he also owns two sections of valuable land. For three terms has been alderman of Carrollton. In 1851 he was married to Miss Matilda Thomas, daughter of the Hon. Samuel Thomas, by whom he has four children: Emma, who married Dr. Lindsay, of Carrollton; Thomas, a farmer; Charles, a graduate of St. Louis Medical College, and Eliza, now attending Godfrey College, at Monticello Ill.