CLIFTON, THOMAS A.: 1859-1935.
Thomas A. Clifton , son of Housen and Permelia Seeley Clifton, was born in Iroquois County, Ill., on Dec. 15, 1859. The family had lived in Indiana before the birth of Thomas and returned to the state before he was of school age.
Thomas was educated in the Fountain County, Ind., schools and attended De Pauw University, receiving the A.B. degree in 1885. He became a teacher and was sent to India, while still a young man, to establish a boys' high school. Returning to the U. S. , he continued to teach for several years.
Shortly after the beginning of the century he became editor of the weekly COVINGTON ( Ind. ) REPUBLICAN, continuing in newspaper work until his death in June, 1935.
Information from Roll–History of Indiana.
- Past and Present of Fountain and Warren Counties …
Indianapolis, 1913.
