Clover Family Research Compendium
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By June Clover Byrne
for the Clover Family Historical Society
California
Clover Records
On this Page:
Custom's Service
Newspaper Clippings
Vital Records: Births and Marriages
Passenger Lists
WW I Draft Registration (partial)
Other California Pages
Clover Censuses and City Directories
Clover Deaths in California
Clover Cemeteries and Obituaries in California
Clover in the Custom Service
J. G. Clover Customs Department 1899, San Francisco District
Newspaper Clippings
Newspaper Clipping from the Los Angeles (California) Times, published 16 July 1891, page 8
Personals Column [This consists mostly of individuals who were newly arrived in town and gave the name of where they were staying.]
San Francisco people who registered at the Hollenbeck [Hotel] were J. A Clover, W. T. Pridham, William Peters, and G. L. North.
Los Angeles Times 4 March 1932
Poison Blamed for Jail Death
Promoter Succumbs After Grand-Theft Arrest
Collapses Before Officers Could Book Him
Coronor Declare Suspect Swallowed Cyanide
Cyanide poisoning late yesterday was declared by the Coroner's office to have been the cause of death Howard K. Clover. 65 years of age, 165 South Serrano Avenue, who suddenly was stricken and died shortly after being arrested and taken to County Jail on a warrant charging grand theft and violation of the Corporate Securities Ace.
Clover was taken in custody at an office at 1039 South Fairfax Avenue yesterday morning by Deputy sheriff Williams of the Sheriff's fugitive detail. A few minutes later Williams said he saw Clover put something in his mouth and on being questioned told the officer that it was medicine for heart disease. He collapsed before he could be booked in jail and was taken to the jail hospital here efforts of Dr. Benjamin Blank, jail physician, and an inhalator squad to revive him were futile.
The cause of death was determined in an autopsy ordered by Coroner Nance. Clover was identified at the County Morgue by his brother, J. B. Clover, and his daughter, Mrs. Dawn Clover Hoffman.
Clover was charged with seven counts of grand theft amounting to approximately $14,000. and five of violation of the Corporate Securities Act in a complain issued by Dep Dist. Atty. Lindley.
According to Lindley, Clover obtained this money from Mrs. Helen G. Sutton of 1026Sanborn Street and Clyde Berglund of 1316 South Sycamore for the announced purpose of exploiting a perfume formula which he asserted belonged to him. ht money was misappropriated, Lindley charges.
Among the witnesses listed is J. Stuart Blacton of 3505 West Sixth Street, who told officers that he had spent $24,000 in an attempt to exploit the perfume formula but had failed to create a definite market for it.
The complaint was issued by Lindley on 8 February last.
[Howard K. Clover was a son of Isaac N. Clover and Mary Kizer. Issac was a son of Gamaliel Clover.]
Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1924
Wild Dog Has Isle Worried
Half-Dozen San Clemente Inhabitants Seek Sheep – Killer
Thanks to Pat Vaseska for typing this.
A wild dog has the half-dozen inhabitants of San Clemente Island on the run. For three months employees of the San Clemente Cattle Company and George Michaelis, the hermit of Mosquito Harbor, have been attempting to catch sight of the mysterious canine.
The dog, apparently faring abroad only at night, is said to have killed more than 800 sheep on the island. The killer, it is believed, was left on the island by a hunting party and, deserted among the desert mountains, reverted to its wild nature. News of the animal was brought to the mainland by the crew of Capt. William Clover’s yacht, Loafer, which returned from a sword-fishing expedition in San Clemente waters.
Los Angeles Times November 9, 1924, Schooner – Yacht Long Overdue Is Back at Harbor
Thanks to Pat Vaseska for typing this for us.
The thirty-seven-foot auxiliary schooner yacht Loafer, almost three weeks overdue from the Lower Mexican West Coast, made port yesterday morning after she had been buffeted for days by a series of Northwest gales that laid her on her beam, ends. Hope had been practically abandoned for the safety of the crew of three adventurers since they were last heard from a month ago at Asunclon Island.
They are Capt. William Clover, Capt. Bert S. Coleman and George D. Crocker, Hollywood cameraman. They left this port two months ago to secure actual fighting scenes of marlin swordfish and gray whales at sea. Success in the form of 2100 feet of film marked their efforts.
Capt. Coleman reported the finding on Sacramento Reef, south of San Geronimo Island of the wreck of a 10,000-ton freight steamer, which surf action had worked out on the crest of the reef since the vessel foundered on the shoals there several years ago.
Los Angeles (California) Times, 25 April 1925
The following is part of a list of ship arrivals.
One of the yachts returning from a cruise, reported meeting Billy Clover's party on his boat, The Loafer, near Cape San Lucas, also meeting Zane Grey's party, on his boat, The Fisherman. They reported catching great quantities of tuna including specimens of upward of 225 pounds, and swordfish almost twice that size.
California Miscelleneous This was sent to me by Jill Taylor and typed by Pat Vaseska.
Fresno California Bee, February 20, 1990
Cora Louise Clover
Cora Louise Clover would like her motto to be, “Gone fishin.”
“Mama used to say it was the only time I was still, and I don’t doubt it was true. I would give anything to go fishing now.”
Clover last dropped her line into a mountain lake in her 80’s when she was still hiking the high country. Today her walking is confined to the flatlands, but she is still moving, sometimes to the consternation of her daughter, Mary Louise Hensley of Clovis.
It seems that Clover likes to walk several blocks from her apartment at the glen Agnes senior citizens complex to a nearby grocery store. Hensley worries and wants her to go with someone, so Clover recently assured her daughter on the telephone that “we” – as in Clover and someone else – were about to set off to the store.
Turns out that “we” was Clover and her shopping cart.
She is one agile 101 years old. Skeptics need only follow Clover into her bedroom, watch her fall backwards onto the bed sad see her kick her legs over her head. She holds a tight pike position for 10 seconds and then straightens her legs.
Clover does this 30 times during her morning workout. She also eats wisely and takes vitamins. In addition, one more thing explains her longevity, Clover said, New England roots.
“My daughter says – and she’s a real reader – that the people who have lived the longest have been in New England states.” Clover’s Vermont granny lived to be 94.
There are other pieces to the wonderfully complex Cora Louise Clover, former sales clerk, former secretary, and former teacher. She was married three times and had three children. (“We won’t talk about husbands!”) Her motto is adjust, don’t whine. (“I don’t mind change. If it’s something you have to do, just do it.”)
She is a woman of the Christian faith, who coped with her adult son’s death by reading her Bible. (“I just keep going through the special things that Jesus said.”)
Clover fills her days at Glen Agnes by making ceramics and running the library. She also likes to make people there laugh, which she does easily and often.
Clover gets a particular hoot out of the little sign she has posted in her kitchen.
It reads: “Age Is Not Important Unless You Are Cheese.”
The Census Bureau says that by 2030, the number of people 65 and older will total 66 million, twice the number living today. Of that 66 million, roughly half a million will be 100 or older, according to the census Bureau projections. That is a huge increase from the 36,000 centenarians counted in the 1990 census.
Therefore, the story, of 101 year old, Cora Louise Clover, is not only the story of today, but also of tomorrow.
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Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913
http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/26069?c=search&first=&last=clover
Clover, Samuel
This same year Major Ben. C. Truman, formerly editor of theStar, together with George D. ice & Sons established theGraphic, which is still being published under the popular editorship of Samuel T. Clover. In 1900, Truman was one of the California Commissioners to the Paris Exposition. After his foreign sojourn, he returned to Los Angeles and, with Harry Patton, started a weekly society paper called theCapitol. Rather recently, by the advantageous sale of certain
property early acquired, Ben and his good wife have come to enjoy a comfortable and well-merited degree of prosperity. Clover came to Los Angeles in 1901; was editor and publisher of the Express for four years; and in 1905 started the Evening News, continuing the same three years despite the panic of 1907. A year previously, he purchased the Graphic, more than one feature of which, and especially his "Browsings in an Old Book Shop," have found such favor.
W. A. Spalding, whose editorial work on Los Angeles newspapers—dating
from his association with the Herald in 1874, and including service with both the Express and the Times—in 1896 assumed the business management of his first love, the Herald. After again toiling with the quill for four years, he was succeeded by Lieutenant Randolph H. Miner.
Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913. Family Tree Legends Records
page 665
One incident of this period of excitement and strain is perhaps worthy of record as evidence of the good fellowship existing between Los Angeles and the prostrate city. On May 2d the Executive Committee of the Associated Jobbers passed resolutions discouraging any effort to
take advantage of San Francisco's plight, and pledging to help restore her splendid commercial prestige; whereupon Samuel T. Clover made this editorial comment in the Los Angeles Evening News:
We commend the reading of these expressions of kindly good will to every pessimist in the country, as an evidence that all commercial honor is not wiped out in this grossly materialistic age. The resolutions, as passed, are an honor to the Jobbers' Association in particular, and a credit to Los Angeles in general. The Evening News desires to felicitate President Newmark and his associates on the lofty attitude they have taken in the exigency. We are proud of them.
Vital
Records
Clovers in the California Birth
Index: 1905-1910
| Child’s Name | Sex | Date | Mother's Maiden Name | County |
| CLOVER LESLIE E | 10/02/1905 | MALE | BUZZARD | YOLO |
| CLOVER KENNETH | 11/13/1906 MALE | BALLARD | LOS ANGELES | |
| MACGREGOR | 01/14/1906 | MALE | CLOVER | SONOMA |
| BARNES | 03/01/1907 | FEMALE | CLOVER | SONOMA |
| CLOVER ADDELLA J | 09/16/1908 | FEMALE | BALLARD | LOS ANGELES |
| CLOVER DORA | 04/25/1908 | FEMALE | BUZZARD | YOLO |
| GREELEY | 06/05/1908 | MALE | CLOVER | ALAMEDA |
| WACHTEL JOHN C | 12/15/1908 | MALE | CLOVER | LOS ANGELES |
| GORHAM JESSIE | 01/05/1909 | FEMALE | CLOVER | LOS ANGELES |
| CLOVER WILBUR R | 05/11/1910 | MALE | BALLARD | LOS ANGELES |
| GORHAM JOHN A | 08/11/1910 | MALE | CLOVER | LOS ANGELES |
California
Clover Marriages
MACPHERSON CALVIN A 48 CLOVER ALICE E 41 1975 08 16 FRESNO
GODDARD SCOTT L 24 CLOVER ALMA R 19 1981 08 15 ALAMEDA
WINTERFELDT DANIEL B 22 CLOVER ANITA G 18 197503 01 MERCED
OLIVERO ROBERT A 20 CLOVER ANNA B 20 1963 08 30 MERCED
BAUM HOWARD C 29 CLOVER BARBARA A 26 1963 04 20 IMPERIAL
BRUMFIELD ROBERT B 46 CLOVER BETTY J 46 1971 09 02 PLACER
KAPLAN SAMUEL W 25 CLOVER CAROL J 19 1960 08 06 SHASTA
CREAN ANDREW 19 CLOVER CARYL L 20 1970 12 21 LOS ANGELES
CRAWFORD JERRY L 47 CLOVER CATHLEEN A 34 1983 06 13 LOS ANGELES
WILLIAMSON JOHN A 37 CLOVER CECILY 28 1968 04 11 SAN MATEO
BECKWITH GLENWOOD J 33 CLOVER CECILY A 34 1974 11 30 SIERRA
THORNTON WILLIAM E 30 CLOVER CHERYL D 23 1977 07 21 EL DORADO
HOBSON JOHN D 17 CLOVER CHERYL L 16 1965 09 05 ORANGE
JOSEPH IRVING B 25 CLOVER CHRISTIN A 27 1978 06 08 INYO
LEAVITT ALAN W 23 CLOVER CHRISTIN A 23 1974 10 05 INYO
LINCOLN KRIS N 20 CLOVER CHRISTIN A 19 1971 01 16 VENTURA
PENA JOHN A 21 CLOVER COLLEEN P 18 1970 11 07 RIVERSIDE
ROBBINS JAMES K 21 CLOVER CONNIE J 19 1972 01 22 LOS ANGELES
MINHOTO MANUEL A 32 CLOVER CONSTANC R 44 1977 06 11 SANTA CLARA
BULIS ALBERT L 72 CLOVER CORA F 74 1972 06 28 SISKIYOU
SIGLER RUSSELL E 20 CLOVER CYNTHIA L 19 1977 05 07 FRESNO
MACKAY DENNIS E 21 CLOVER DAYLENE N 19 1960 09 04 SACRAMENTO
STONE MICHAEL A 30 CLOVER DEBBIE L 22 1979 04 07 FRESNO
WALKER EDWARD A 23 CLOVER DEBORAH D 18 1971 05 01 SACRAMENTO
IMAN EDWARD J 23 CLOVER DEBORAH D 21 1970 09 10 SAN DIEGO
BOSCHEN JOHN L 20 CLOVER DEBRA S 19 1973 10 13 SONOMA
LINDBERG MAX D 37 CLOVER DEE A 27 1968 10 01 SAN FRANCISCO
FERNANDEZ GUADALUP P 20 CLOVER DIANA L 18 1975 06 21 FRESNO
SMITH DELBERT R 21 CLOVER DIANE E 20 1964 12 18 FRESNO
ORME FREDRICK R 21 CLOVER DONNA L 19 1963 10 19 CONTRA COSTA
MOSELEY EDWARD P 65 CLOVER DOROTHY 62 1977 08 13 ORANGE
LANCE LARRY 67 CLOVER DOROTHY J 63 1983 12 03 STANISLAUS
SALSIG WILLIAM W 26 CLOVER EILEEN L 20 1973 06 30 SONOMA
CLOVER THOMAS S 38 CLOVER ELIZABET A 32 1961 09 22 KERN
BOATWRIGHT DOYLE W 25 CLOVER ELIZABET A 26 1962 05 22 SAN DIEGO
TIFFANY EDWARD M 21 CLOVER ELLEN G 18 1973 01 21 LOS ANGELES
JORDAN CLYDE D 46 CLOVER ENID W 32 1968 09 16 ORANGE
MCELWAIN ALAN G 21 CLOVER ESTELLA L 20 1961 04 22 LOS ANGELES
REATH DONALD C 22 CLOVER GEMZE G 22 1977 01 15 SACRAMENTO
CLELAND LARRY R 24 CLOVER GERALDIN L 18 1967 08 12 YOLO
CLARK MICHAEL P 23 CLOVER GLENNA R 22 1963 06 15 SANTA BARBARA
DOYLE MATTHEW J 33 CLOVER HELEN M 39 1963 04 27 SANTA CLARA
Ventura County, California 1878-1928
CLOVER, Daisy Stella Lee DITTMAR, Ruben Henry 2-Oct-1927 Bk 21:499
CLOVER, Eleanor Christiana CATCHING, William Kenneth 12 Jul 1924 Bk 16:343
http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/westernStatesRecordDetail.cfm?recordID=685937
Merrell N. Remmick, of Indian Diggings, married Nancy E. Clover of Indian Diggings, on 16 June 1861, at Cedarville, El Dorado County, California. Book A: 177.
| Clover | Spouse | Date | County | Source |
| Pharobe | H. Tillman | 1854 | Sacramento | NGSQ, Vol 54 p 138(Ref Vol A-60) |
Death Records are on a separate page. Clover Deaths in California
California Passenger and Crew
Lists, 1893-1957
Barry Edward Clover 23 Jun 1955 Sydney, Australia Orsova
Benton Lee Clover 18 May 1945 1913 Male
Benton Lee Clover 27 Sep 1945 1913 Male
Collenn Clover 12 Aug 1949 abt 1948 Female Yokohama, Japan General Nelson M Walker
Cuoier L Clover 11 Dec 1908 abt 1865 Male Ports of China and Japan Korea
Dustin G Clover 27 Jan 1956 Honolulu, Hawaii Permanente Silverbow
Elizabeth Clover 3 Jul 1923 abt 1895 Female Honolulu, Hawaii Matsonia
Emil Fred Clover 24 Oct 1929 abt 1886 Male Yokohama, Japan Asama Maru
Emma Clover 6 Apr 1921 abt 1892 Female Honolulu, Hawaii Wilhelmina
F Clover 7 Mar 1917 Matsonia
Frances Clover 18 Jun 1951 abt 1925 Male Manlia, Philippines President Harrison
Francis Clover 11 Oct 1921 abt 1901 Female Honolulu, Hawaii Maui
Geoffrey D A Clover 2 Jul 1936 abt 1910 Male Hamburg, Germany England Tacoma
H A Clover 7 Mar 1917 Matsonia
Harvey Clover 3 Aug 1925 1887 Male Havana, Cuba Manchuria
Henry A Clover 11 Oct 1921 abt 1893 Female Honolulu, Hawaii Maui
Isabelle Helen Clover 26 Apr 1934 abt 1856 Female Varrous Ports England Empress Of Britain
John Clover 27 Jun 1907 abt 1878 Male Yokohama, Japan England Korea
Laura W Clover 13 Jun 1952 abt 1930 Female Manila, Philippines General Charles Gould Morton
Mary Clover 2 Jul 1936 abt 1907 Female Hamburg, Germany England Tacoma
Mary E Clover 3 Aug 1928 Female Yokohama, Japan Shinyo Maru
Nelson Clover 13 Mar 1931 abt 1888 Male Wellington, New Zealand New Zealand R M S Makura
Patricia Clover 12 Aug 1949 abt 1918 Female Yokohama, Japan General Nelson M Walker
Patrick L Clover 13 Jun 1952 abt 1949 Male Manila, Philippines General Charles Gould Morton
Peter Clover 27 Jun 1907 abt 1873 Male Yokohama, Japan England Korea
Peter Clover 27 Jun 1907 abt 1874 Male China and Japan Ports Korea
Philip Patric Clover 23 Sep 1928 1891 Male Shanghai, China President Jackson
Philip Petrie Clover 19 Sep 1928 abt 1892 Male Shanghai, China President Jackson
Philip Petrie Clover 30 Dec 1918 abt 1891 Male Shanghai, China Colombia
Richardson Clover 12 Jan 1906 abt 1847 Male Hong Kong, China Siberia
Robert Clover 27 Jun 1925 1900 Male Honolulu, Hawaii Calawai
Tillie Clover 17 May 1903 abt 1874 Female Victoria, British Columbia City Of Puebla
Victor O J Clover 25 Oct 1956 Vancouver, British Columbia Orcades
W H Clover 16 Oct 1936 abt 1902 Male Midway Island United States Hawaiian Clipper
William Clover 14 Jun 1926 1892 Male Ensenada, British Columbia Washington
Willis Clover 27 Sep 1939 abt 1901 Male Honolulu, Hawaii United States California Clipper
California Land
Patents
The following Clovers are in the index of the CA Land Patents at http://www.ca.blm.gov/landpatents/
CLOVER ABE; Trinity; CAE 0002959
CLOVER ABE; Shasta; CAR 0000214
CLOVER MILTON; Sonoma; CACAAA 019304
CLOVER PHILLIP R; Shasta; CACAAA 036073
You can obtain copies of the patent file from the National Archives and Records Administration by providing the patent number, date of the patent, name of the patentee and legal description at the following address:
Reference Branch (Lands) National Archives
Washington, DC 20408
(202) 501-5428
Submit your request for a copy of a Patent File on a copy of Form 84. To obtain the form, email a request to inquire@nara.gov or write to the above address.
Yolo County, California
http://www.cagenweb.com/yolo/yol_bio/
Coming to Yolo in 1868, Mr. Wilkendorf bought a raw tract of one hundred and sixty acres situated six miles southeast of Woodland. From that time until his death in August of 1889 he devoted his attention undividedly to the improvement of the property, which he increased by subsequent purchases until it embraced four hundred and eighty acres. To this ranch in 1869 he brought his bride, who was Miss Margaret Klipple, a native of Germany and a woman of industrious disposition, energetic and capable, devoted to her family and her home and of great assistance to her husband in his efforts to secure a competency. They were the parents of six children, namely: Mrs. Bertha Hucke, Herman A., Mrs. Agnes Clover, Frederick A., Otto F. and George I. After becoming a citizen of California Mr. Wilkendorf gave his support to all movements for its advancement and proved himself to be loyal and patriotic. Fraternally he held membership with the Order of Chosen Friends and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
WW I Draft Registration [partial list]
| Name | birth date | Ethnic | Birth site or other info | city/count | /state |
| Abe Clover | 18 March 1875 | W | sister lives MN | Trinity | CA |
| Earl M. Clover | 15 Sep 1886 | w | Glen Elder, KS | Yuba | CA |
WW II Enlistment Records (partial)
Ray B. Clover born 1920 Texas enlisted 11 Nov 1943 in California
William A. Clover born 1924 Texas enlisted 13 Apr 1943 in California
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