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WILLIAM M. CLUBB, farmer, section 29, post-office Carthage, was born in Lawrence county, Ark., Dec. 5, 1842. When but six years old he came with his parents to Jasper county, Mo., settling in Union township, where he was reared and educated. At the breaking out of the civil war our subject was of strong Union sentiments, and did good service for Uncle Sam during the late unpleasantness. He was a member of Captain Kemper’s company of the Ninth Regiment Enrolled Missouri State Militia. Subsequently he enlisted in Company M, Thirteenth Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, going into active service in the Department of the West, in the campaigns against the hostile Sioux Indians. He was in many skirmishes and some pitched battles during his service on the plains, and participated in the campaign against Price in Missouri and Kansas, and in all the engagements of that time. He was present at the house of Dr. Stemmons, in McDonald township, when the house was attacked in 1862; saw the Doctor and Lantern Duncan killed, and was himself severely wounded, but managed to escape, with several others. He was discharged from the United States service in January, 1866, and then went to Cole county, Mo., where he was married to Miss Mary E. McDonald, a native of Callaway county, Mo., on July l5th of the same year. The following year he returned to Jasper county, and has since been a permanent resident. His family consists of four children: James W., William M., Mary A., and Henry A. His father, Peter Clubb, was a native of Kentucky, and served during the war in the Ninth Regiment of the Missouri State Militia, and died while in the service on Sept. 17th, 1863.