C. Clavin, a prominent representative of financial interests in
Macoupin county, is the cashier and business manager of the First
National Bank at Mount Olive. His birth occurred in Keytesville,
Missouri, on the 5th of November, 1880, his parents being William and
Elizabeth (Hibler) Clavin, who were natives of Ireland and Kentucky
respectively. The father crossed the Atlantic to the United States in
early manhood, landing in New York city on the day of President
Buchanan’s election in 1857. Making his way westward, he was married in
Brookfield, Missouri, where his wife’s parents had settled after leaving
the Blue Grass state. Following his arrival in Missouri, William Clavin
was for some time engaged in construction work on the Hannibal & St. Joe
Railroad, while subsequently he was employed on a large plantation in
that state. At the time of the outbreak of the Civil war, having been
associated with the southern people and being an employe of a heavy
slaveholding planter, he enlisted for service with the Confederate
troops and fought under General Price. He was captured at the battle of
Wilson Creek and confined as a prisoner in Alton, Illinois, until the
cessation of hostilities, when he was discharged and returned to
Missouri. In that state he followed farming throughout the remainder of
his life, passing away in November, 1904, at the age of sixty-five
years. His wife was called to her final rest in January, 1902, when
fifty-eight years old.
C. Clavin was reared under the parental
roof and supplemented his early education, obtained in the public
schools, by a six years’ course of study in St. Francis College at
Quincy, Illinois, from which institution he was graduated in 1902 with
the degree of A. B. Five days after his graduation he entered the
Farmers Bank of Keytesville, Missouri, as bookkeeper, acting in that
capacity for about a year and a half. On the expiration of that period
he went to Marine, Illinois, to accept the proffered position of cashier
of the Bank of Marine. At the end of nine months, however, he severed
his connection with that institution and came to Mount Olive, here
organizing the First National Bank, of which he was made cashier and
business manager. Under Mr. Clavin’s able management the bank has built
up an extensive banking business and has become one of the leading
moneyed institutions of Macoupin county.
On the 5th of November,
1906, Mr. Clavin was united in marriage to Miss Clara Rumpf of Mount
Olive, her father being Frederick W. Rumpf, now deceased, who for many
years acted as agent of the Pacific Express Company. Unto our subject
and his wife have been born two children: E. Marian and C. Grattan.
Mr. Clavin is a member of Litchfield Lodge of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks and also belongs to the Knights of Columbus.
Both he and his wife are faithful communicants of the Catholic church
and are numbered among the leading and esteemed residents of Mount
Olive.
Extracted 15 Nov 2018 by Norma Hass from History of Macoupin County, Illinois: Biographical and Pictorial, by Charles A. Walker, published in 1911, Volume 2, pages 396-397.
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