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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 S. S. CLAYBERG 

[Surnames: BAUGHMAN, BOWEN, CLAYBERG, DAVIS, HULL, MINGS, SAUNDERS, THOMPKINS] 

CLAYBERG, S. S. 

    
For a period of thirty-three years the health and sanitation of Avon have been safeguarded by the zeal and skill of Dr. S. S. Clayberg, wha was born and reared and spent his entire life in Fulton County. His youth was spent in Cuba, where he was born Jan. 5, 1838, the year after the arrival of his parents, George and Elizabeth (Baughman) Clayberg. The father was born on a farm in Pennsylvania and when he arrived at a self-supporting age determined to cast his fortune with Ohio, which then had a widely scattered population. He saved more than he spent at farming and in time married Elizabeth Baughman who was born in the Buckeye State. He gathered his household belongings in the summer of 1837 and with a wagon and team drove across the country to Cuba, near which town he purchased land and engaged in farming and stock-raising on an increasingly larger scale. 
    
This farm he developed from raw prairie into a fine and paying property, and it still is a valued possession of the family. Six children played around his fireside. 
    
Notwithstanding the limited resources of his father, Dr. Clayberg studied in the public schools of Cuba, at the Michigan State University, Ann Arbor, which he attended two years, and the Rush Medical College, Chicago from which he graduated with the degree of M.D. engaging in practice with Dr. Hull, of Cuba, in 1873, he came to Avon and stepped into the practice of Dr. Saunders, and about five years ago established a partnership with Dr. E. E. Davis. The Doctor is a member of the Military Tract Medical Assoc., and is a frequent contributor to well known medical works throughout the country. 
    
On My 20, 1864, Dr. Clayberg was united in marriage to Sarah Belle Bowen, an native of Fairview, who died in 1870, leaving three children, of whom Sue Blanche is the wife of F. W. Thompkins; William Harry is employed at one of the banks of Avon, and Louisiana is deceased. 
    
On June 22, 1875, Dr. Clayberg married N. Abigail Mings of Fulton County, and the mother of a son, Jiles M. 
    
Dr. Clayberg is an ardent fraternalist and is connected with the Mason and I.O. O.F. (Avon Lodge). The Doctor was made a Mason in 1865 and is a member of Harmony Lodge (Avon), No. 350, A.F.& A.M; Canton Chapter, No. 68, R. A. M., and Galesburg Commandery No. 68.