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NEWTON J. CLYMER, M. D.— The birth of this physician
and surgeon occurred March 24, 1837, in Miami county, Ind., where
his parents, Joseph and Eliza (Keever) Clymer, settled as early as
1832. The father was a son of Henry Clymer, who was a native of
Pennsylvania, and a cousin of George Clymer, of Declaration fame.
At the close of the Revolutionary war, in which he was a soldier, he
married Miss Phebe Wharton, whose father was also a soldier in
the war of Independence. Subsequent to this marriage Henry Clymer came west and located on the Ohio river, becoming one of the
early settlers of Cincinnati, where his son, Joseph, our subject's
father, was born in 1805. Later he removed to Warren county,
Ohio, where his death occurred. He was the father of six sons and
five daughters. When the subject of this review was nine years of
age his father died, and the care of six children was thrown upon
the mother; but possessing that magnificent ingenuity with which
woman is ever provided with she managed to keep her family of four
sons and two daughters upon the home farm until they reached manhood and womanhood. Dr. N. J. Clymer spent his youth upon the
farm. At eighteen years of age he was fortunate enough to be the
teacher at a neighboring school. At twenty years of age he began
the study of medicine in the office of his brother, Dr. Keever Clymer
at Wawpecong, Ind., where he remained for two years, and then located for the practice of his profession in LaSalle county, Ill., but
one year later returned to Indiana and located at Bourbon, and in
1862 he came to Fulton county and from that time until the fall of
1893 he was located at Bloomingsburg (now Talma), where for
rnany years he had an extensive practice. Near this place the doctor
now owns two valuable farms. Feb. 9, 1860, occurred the marriage
of Dr. Clymer to Miss Leonora A. Moore, who was bom at Ashta-
bula, Ohio, Nov. 16, 1844, a daughter of George W. and Elizabeth
Moore. When she was but two years of age her parents removed
to Canada, and from thence to Detroit, Mich., in August. 1849, in
which year her father died, leaving the mother and the following
children, viz.: Eli B., Sophronia A., Julia. George W., Anna E.,
M. Augusta, and Leonora A. Mrs. Clymer received her education
at the schools of Buffalo, N. Y., and at Bourbon, Ind. To bless the
union of Dr. and Mrs. Clymer there have come four children, viz.:
Charles A., George M., Florence and Harry C. Dr. Clymer has
taken an active part in social and fraternal afifairs. He was one of
the organizers of the Masonic lodge. No. 489 and I. O. O. F. lodge,
No. 516, at Bloomingsburg. He and wife are members of the order.
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