St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-13

was on the border land between the
farm and pine lands. Toopen the farm
required ceaseless toll and that of the
hardest kind. The BOYS we're early
pressed into this work and. as farming
alone would not support the growing
FAMILY, numbering was also taken up.
IN new country a farm does not
produce at once, and the question of
subsistence is serious one. The expe-
rience of the Clough family was no ex.
ceptIon. and there were no Iuxuries en-
Joyed in those early years. White -four
was almost curiosity, and to get their
corn ground into meal required trip of
thirty miles. Every comfort secured
was obtained by hard work, and vaca-
lions were unknown. The bows worked
on the farm in summer and went into
the woods in the winter. Their
school house was the open air.
and their books were the hoe.
the ak and the canthook. David's
entire education was picked I'D at
odd moments. At the age of fifteen he
was doing mans work and that of the
hardest kind. At sixteen he drove
slX-oX team in the woods, and at seven
teen ne earned mans wages on the
drive. For the next three years he
worked in the Minneapolis sawmilIs in
the summer and in the woods in the
winter. The money thus earned he
turned over to his father for the sup
port Of the younger ones at home. At
the age of twenty his father gave him
his time, and this, with a vigorous con-
stitution. steady habits and an ability
and disposition to work, was his start
in life.
while yet minor. April 4, 1857. Miss
Addle Barton became his wife, and they
commenced married life at Spencer
Brook, the little settlement where thew
had both been brought up. About this
time he began work by the month for
Henry F. Brown, and continued with
him for four years as a teamster in the
woods in the winter, on the drive in the
spring. and putting up hay and building
camps in the summer. After this he be-
gan lumbering for himself, and with his
brother Gilbert took contracts for cutting
and hauling logs in the adjacent pin
cries. In 1872 they removed to Mime
apolis, and the firm of Clough Bros.
became one of the substantial lumber
concerns of the city. They owned their
own timber, cut, drove and sawed their
own logs, and sold their own lumber
For more than ten years OF this time
Dave was one of the crew himself.
He made a hand wherever there was
work TO be done, and with such leader
it is no wonder that Clough Bros.
banked more logs in the winter than
n OIL
Being ambitious he availed himself
of every opportunity to improve, and
the education that comes to every self
made man he also secured. He
worked as hard with his head as he did
with his hands. and he prospered men
tally, socially and financially. He is a
prominent Mason, and for many wears
has been, with Gov. Pillsbury, a trustee
OF the First congregational church, of
Minneapolis. He is president of the
commission appointed to build the new
court house and city hall, director IN
the Commercial bank and vice pres
ident of the Bank of MINNEAPOLIS.
besides being sole manager of the ex-
tenSIYe lumber business of CIOugh
Bros, his brother Gilbert having died
some three years ago. Besides being
engaged in these other enterprises. Mr..
Clougn is also farmer, and owns the
farm on which his boyhood was spent
He has added to 1t by purchase, and it
now contains GAO acres. Following the
example of his early employer, 81. E.
Brown, he has invested largely in
stock and owns some of the finest
thoroughbreds. With convenient and
commodious buildings the Spencer
Brook farm is one of the best in the
state. Perhaps it was the reputation of
this farm, as we'll as the known energy
and business qualifications Of its pro-
prietor, that caused Mr.. Clough to be