The Yorkville Enquirer reported on April 12, 1877 (an ad), – A New Medical Partnership, with an office adjacent to York Drug Store. J. Harry Clawson, M.D. has returned to Yorkville and has formed a partnership with Dr. J.F. Lindsay, an old and successful practitioner. Dr. Clawson has been at the Un. of Maryland for two years and was the assistant resident physician at University Hospital, the Baltimore Infirmary.”
The Yorkville Enquirer contained an ad on Dec. 8, 1881 – “From J.F. Lindsay stating, due to ill health I offer all my property for sale, except my dwelling house. This includes a 135 acre farm known as the Coka Place, two miles from Yorkville on the Pinckney Ferry Road. This farm has good cotton land, a frame dwelling, outbuildings, and an orchard. It is adjacent the lands of Katharine Miller and Mrs. Templeton. A second parcel of 186 acres known as the Rawl’s Tract and adjacent to the first. A tract of 38 acres about three miles from Yorkville near the Chester Road and bounded by B.T. Wheeler, John McFadden and others. Also for sale my equipment including an Erie City Engine of 10 HP, needle gin, and steam power press.”
The Herald reported on Jan. 25, 1883 – “An attempt was made to burn the old gin house belonging to Allen and Iredell Jones a few miles from town on the old Clawson Place. The fire was discovered and controlled. The gin house was full of corn, wheat, and cotton.”
City Directories and History: DEATH OF W. I. CLAWSON, ESQ.
Medical bill to David Hutchison for treatment of ailments of his “negro woman” from Dr. J. “Jacob” H. Clawson in 1836
The bill was not satisfied until Aug. 22, 1840
Samuel Burns owes David Hutchison, $17., dated April 1830, signed by J.H. Clawson, JP. Hutchison Group 2021
Although not unprepared for the intelligence, the many friends and acquaintances of W. I. Clawson, Esq., (attorney), were pained to learn of his death, which occurred at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr. J. W. Marshall, near Fort Mill, in this county, on the night of the 22nd ultimo, in the 62nd year of his age. William Israel Clawson, was the son of Dr. Jacob H. Clawson, (doctor), and was born February 22nd, 1815, in this county about four miles north of the present town of Rock Hill. He was the eldest child of a family of four children. At an early age he entered the academy at Ebenezer, then conducted by Mr. Meredith Shurley, and after passing through the regular courses of this school, he entered Randolph Macon College, in Virginia; where he remained until the end of his junior year. He then returned to his home, and soon after came to Yorkville and commenced reading law under the late George Williams, Esq. In this, his chosen profession, he made rapid progress, and was admitted to the bar in 1837, when, under the strict regulations then prevailing, something more than a mere cursory reading was essential to the admission of a candidate for legal honors.
*** SEE ABOVE BILL: Note of payment from Wm. Daniel to David Hutchison, 1833. Mr. Clawson serving as Justice of the Peace.
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After his admission to the bar, Mr. Clawson formed a co-partnership with Mr. Williams, with whom he continued to be associated in the practice of his profession until 1839, when he was elected to the office of Commissioner in Equity, which position he held for three terms. He was afterwards elected to the State Legislature, representing this county in the House of Representatives for one or two sessions.
Retiring from political life, Mr. Clawson resumed the practice of law, also devoting some attention to planting, which pursuits he continued unremittingly until June, 1867, when he was commissioned Registrar in Bankruptcy of this district, by Judge Bryan, which position he held up to the time of his death. Mr. Clawson was twice married. In 1840 he married a daughter of Col. Thomas Williams, by whom he reared a family of three sons and four daughters, those of the former who have entered man’s estate being useful citizens, and his daughters estimable and accomplished ladies. His second wife, who survives him, was Miss Fair, of Newberry. As showing the high esteem in which Mr. Clawson was held by the people of the community, despite the very inclement weather, a large concourse of sorrowing friends attended the funeral services, which were conducted on Monday of last week, in the Presbyterian church, by Rev. L. A. Johnson, of the M. E. church, who delivered a discourse fitting and appropriate to the sad occasion.
In his public career, as well as in the private walks of life, Mr. Clawson was essentially an old time Carolina gentleman. Strict and upright in the discharge of his duties; an industrious, indomitable worker, courteous and affable in manner, of liberal mind and public spirit, his loss will be deplored by the entire community.
-The Yorkville Enquirer, January
(Information courtesy of and from: YCGHS – The Quarterly Magazine)
RAILROADS COME TO YORK COUNTY – Several additional facts about the rail line from Columbia to Rock Hill may be of interest to the reader. First, the men from York District who attended the convention concerning the building of a railroad from Charlotte to Columbia were Colonel W. C. Beatty, William A. Latta, John Miller Ross, Robert Gadsden McCaw, William Moore, W. Giles, J. Beatty Smith, and Joel W. Rawlinson. This initial meeting of interested parties was held at Winnsboro on May 24 and 25, 1847.
Subscribers for stock in the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad Company on September 9 and 10, 1847, were these: Colonel W. C. Beatty, John Miller Ross, Colonel William Wright, John S. Moore, W. I. Clawson, William A. Latta, George W. Williams, Colonel Edward Avery, Harvey Hugh Drennan, Rev. Archibald Whyte, Thomas D. Spratt, James D. Spratt, A. M. White, George P. White, William E. White, and Captain John Massey.
(Along the Landsford Road, by Wm. B. White, Jr. Vol., I – 2008)
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