A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . e resided until hisdeath. His widow survived him, dying in SouthDakota. He served for three years in the Civilwar, belonging to the Ninetieth Illinois Volun-teer Infantry, and for two years was employedin the Signal Service department. He was aman of much force of character, possessingstrong convictions, and in his political affiliationswas a sound Democrat. In Jo Daviess county. 111., E. L. Clancy re-ceived a common school education, afte
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . e resided until hisdeath. His widow survived him, dying in SouthDakota. He served for three years in the Civilwar, belonging to the Ninetieth Illinois Volun-teer Infantry, and for two years was employedin the Signal Service department. He was aman of much force of character, possessingstrong convictions, and in his political affiliationswas a sound Democrat. In Jo Daviess county. 111., E. L. Clancy re-ceived a common school education, after whichhe assisted for a few years in the care of thehome ranch. He was subsequently engaged inagricultural pursuits on his own account, re-maining in Illinois until 1883. Going then toSouth Dakota, he took up one hundred and sixtyacres of government land, and having begun itsimprovement there followed his independentcalling for seven years. Selling his estate in1891, he lived for thirteen years in Arizona, be-ing there employed as a machine hand in a plan-ing mill. Coming to San Diego county in 1904,he bought his present ranch of forty acres, near i. WILLIAM L . SIDWELL HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1031 TBonsall, and has since been profitably engagedin grain-raising and dairying. He keeps tencows, and in addition to caring for his dairymakes a specialty to a certain extent of raisingpoultry, an industry in which he is quite suc-cessful. In 1897, i Kansas, Mr. Clancy married MaryE. Verschelden, a native of Belgium, and oftheir union two children have been born, namely:Joseph, six years old; and August, two years ofage. In national affairs Mr. Clancy supportsthe principles of the Democratic party, but inlocal matters he votes for the best men andmeasures, regardless of party affiliations. Fra-ternally he united with the Independent Orderof Foresters at Flagstaff, Ariz. He is a mem-ber of the Mission Catholic Church, towards thesupport of which he contributes generously. W
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