The full biographical sketch as printed, transcribed from the public-domain book. Spelling and wording are the original author’s; a few scanning errors may remain.
JOHN CLEMENTS, who is living in practical retirement at Woodvillc, San- dusky County, Ohio, was formerly an oil producer and contractor and was identified with all of the important oil fields of the country at one time or another until recent years. He was born in New York City, August 26, 1849. an<l is a son of Thomas and Jane (Barkley) Clements.
Thomas Clements was one of the pioneer oil men of the country, moving from one oil field to another from 1861 until he died at the age of 76 years. He was born in 1814 and was married in New York to Miss Jane Barkley, who was a native of that State and was of Scotch-Irish descent. They had nine children, of whom three are now living.
John Clements spent his early boyhood in New York City and in Pennsylvania, in which State he received a public school edu- cation. He became identified with the oil industry as a boy, and has continued in it from the time he was about 12 years of age down to the time of his withdrawal from business affairs. His family moved from one oil field to another, wherever the terri- tory gave the greatest promise, and about the year of 1888 John Clements moved to Findlay. Ohio. Shortly afterward he moved to Portage. Ohio, and about the year 1802 located at Woodville, where he has since resided. He has met with good success and has productions in Wood and Sandusky Counties at the present t i nit-. He lias been assisting the United States Government in a history of the oil business, being recog- nized as an authority on the subject. He is
a Democrat in politics and has been on the council for eight years. He was president of the Board of Public Service for six years.
Mr. Clements was united in marriage with Miss Anna Gibson, of Venango •County, Pennsylvania, and they became parents of seven children: W. H. Clements, of Toledo; Robert J., who died in infancy; Lillie Rose, who died at the age of 10 years ; John T. Clements, who is in the oil business and lives at Nowater, Oklahoma; Minnie May, wife of George Schumaker, of Wood- ville: DeWitt. who lives at home; and Pearl, wife of W. \V. Rogers, who is super- intendent of the Ohio Oil Company, oper- ating in Illinois. The family belongs to the United Brethren Church. Mr. Clements is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Order of Foresters.
Source: Biographical Record of Sandusky County, Ohio. See the original pages at the Internet Archive.
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