Surnames: Clemmer, Butler, Lowie, Massey, Garred
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 celbrated "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.