Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Clemmer, Upton Lawrence November 16, 1816 - May 25, 1888
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 497
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Upton Lawrence Clemmer, MD, of Redstone, deceased.  The 
late Dr Upton Lawrence Clemmer, one of the most prominent 
and highly respected physicians of Fayette county, was the 
eldest son of Lewis Clemmer and was born in Allegany county, 
Maryland, November 16, 1816.  
    His father was a native of Maryland where he married 
Miss Christina Butler, daughter of Rev Gideon Butler, and 
later removed to Pennsylvania.  He was a saddler and harness 
maker by trade, and after the death of his wife he married 
Polly Lowie of Uniontown where he died in 1866.  One of his 
sons is G G Clemmer, a banker in Iowa.  
    Dr Clemmer received his early education at New Geneva, 
where he began the study of medicine at the age of sixteen 
years under the tutelage of Dr J J Steele, a prominent 
physician of the county.  He attended lectures at the 
Reformed Medical College and after four years' practice, 
graduated in medicine in 1846.  
    He began the practice in Preston county, West Virginia, 
thence to Grandville, Monongalia county, West Virginia, and 
subsequently removed to Smithfield, Fayette county, where he 
continued successfully in the practice for eighteen years.  
From Smithfield Dr Clemmer removed to Brownsville, and was 
there engaged in the successful practice of medicine till 
his death, May 25, 1888.  
    On November 14, 1839, he was married to Miss Adelia H 
Massey, daughter of Wilfred Massey of West Virginia.  They 
had twelve children, of whom eight are living: George B 
Clemmer, born September 20, 1842, married Fannie Garred, 
April, 1875; Carolina A Clemmer, born July 14, 1852; Valonia 
V Clemmer, born November 10, 1854; Dora M Clemmer, born 
April 19, 1858; Elizabeth W Clemmer, born September 11, 
1861; Pearl M Clemmer, born December 30, 1862; Lawrence B 
Clemmer, born July 31, 1865; and Adelia B Clemmer, born June 
10, 1869.  
    Dr Clemmer served as an assistant surgeon in the Union 
army at Parkersburg, West Virginia, in 1864; was the 
inventor of the celebrated "Clemmer's Anti-Dysenteric 
Cordial," and the renowned "Clemmer's Little Liver Pills.  "
    He was a democrat, had been an Odd Fellow for fifty two 
years and one of the founders of Gallatin Lodge at 
Smithfield.  He had served as coroner of Fayette county and 
member of the Pension Examining Board.  At the time of his 
death he owned ten acres of valuable land heavily underlaid 
with coal and lime.  He was a man of strictest integrity and 
high medical ability, and was a man who lived up to his 
convictions of right. 

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