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NEWTON CLIFFORD, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Shirley; was born May 20, 1851, in Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio, where he remained until he was 17 years old, attending school and clerking for D..B. Gardner in the wholesale and retail grocery business; he then moved to Minonk, Woodford Co., Ill., and engaged in building hedge fences for D. Mooney, working by the month at $40 and $50 for three years; from there he went to L. H. Kerrick’s farm in Funk’s Grove, and engaged in farming until 1867, when he made a sale and moved on Mr. F. M. Funk’s farm of 2,000 acres, which he mostly controlled; he receives a salary from Mr. Funk for his care of some five hundred head of cattle. He also rents of Mr. Funk. He was married Jan. 5, 1876, to Miss Alice Norton, the daughter of Alexander Norton, of Champaign Co., Ill.; she was born in 1858; they have one child, viz., Edith. Mr. Clifford superintends the Sunday school at the McIlvaine Schoolhouse.