{"id":234,"date":"2009-06-20T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogybank.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2024-07-31T08:12:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:12:08","slug":"william-montgomery-clemens-1860-1931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/william-montgomery-clemens-1860-1931.html","title":{"rendered":"William Montgomery Clemens (1860-1931)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Genealogists who made a difference<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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William Montgomery Clemens (1860-1931)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
was a prolific genealogist and writer. Nephew to the more famous Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) – he was also a newspaper man and author. <\/strong><\/span>William M. Clemens started writing for the Pittsburgh Leader<\/em> in 1879 and continued his research & writing for more than five decades.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n

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(Illus. Samuel Clemens\/Mark Twain – 2nd from right).<\/span><\/span>
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\n<\/span>A prolific writer, he was the author of well over 100 books and hundreds of essays and newspaper articles.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n


\nHis regular column – “Notes on American Ancestry and Revolutionary Records<\/em>” regularly appeared as the “Genealogical Department<\/em>” in the Columbia, SC newspaper – the State<\/em>. <\/span><\/strong>
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Over 80 of Clemens’ genealogy columns appeared in the State. <\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Each one has genealogical details & information for families from across the country. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

He regularly received questions from his readers and posted them to this column. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Have a question about GenealogyBank<\/a> or hit a brick wall with your family history research? Write us and let us know.<\/span><\/strong>\"Screenshot:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Genealogists who made a difference \u00a0 William Montgomery Clemens (1860-1931) was a prolific genealogist and writer. Nephew to the more famous Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) – he was also a newspaper man and author. William M. Clemens started writing for the Pittsburgh Leader in 1879 and continued his research & writing for more than five decades. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[1128,643,3,1667,5,1878,1242,1129,1658,1036,12,644,1661,2191,1674,1829,642,641,1595,1874,5365,1038,27,1068,1929,1642,635,5426,5430,637,636,1140,494],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-american","tag-american-cancer-society","tag-ancestry","tag-authors","tag-books","tag-center","tag-columbia","tag-family","tag-family-history-2","tag-genealogists","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-mailing-lists","tag-genealogybank-2","tag-history","tag-id","tag-in","tag-internet-genealogy","tag-john-fuller","tag-montgomery","tag-ms","tag-nephew","tag-newspaper","tag-newspapers","tag-obituary","tag-or","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-leader","tag-records","tag-research","tag-samuel-clemens","tag-sc","tag-trenton","tag-us"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99912,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/99912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}