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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of Rutson Y. CLAUSON 

[Surnames: CLAUSON, PATTON, YOUNG] 

CLAUSON, RUTSON Y. 

    
Upon the farm upon which he now lives in Joshua Two., Rutson Y. Clauson was born Aug. 19, 1875, and here he has spent his entire life. The property bears many evidences of the industry and good management of his father, Isaac A. Clauson, who as a young man, journeyed from New Jersey in the early days and underwent the trials and discomforts of Illinois pioneering. While yet his competence was a matter of speculation solely he married Caroline YOUNG, a native of Joshua Twp., and with the aid of his young wife struggled to a position of financial and general importance in the community. 
    
Trained to agriculture from early youth, Rutson Y. Clauson attended the public schools and in time assumed the management of the farm of his father, to which he has added as opportunity arose, and now has 280 acres in Deerfield and Joshua Twps. He is engaged in general farming and stock-raising, and is an intelligent and progressive exponent of the best thus far achieved in his time honored calling. In politics he is a Democrat and in religion allied with the Dutch Reformed Church. Mr. Clauson renounced bachelorhood Nov. 28, 1900, marrying Jennie PATTON, a native daughter of Fairview Twp., and born July 11, 1880. In character and purpose Mr. Clauson sustains the reputation achieved by his father.