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HON. C. W. CLANCY, M.D., deceased, for many years was a leading citizen of Jefferson County, a member of the Ohio Legislature and a physcian of high standing at Smithfield, in which place he located at the close of his long period of service in the Civil War. He was born in Morgan County, Ohio, in April, 1832, and was a son of William and Sarah Clancy. C. W. Clancy was reared on his father's farm and continued in agricultural pursuits until he was twenty-eight years of age, when he went to Cincinnati and there studied medicine and later settled for practice at New Alexandria, in Jefferson County, Ohio. He remained there for one year and was winning the confidence of the people in his professional ability, when his future was changed by the opening of the Civil War. In 1861 he enlisted and was commissioned captain of Co. B, 52nd O. Vol. Inf., and later became lieutenant-colonel of the regiment and continued in the service until the close of strife, when he was honorably discharged. He came then to Smithfield and resumed the practice of his profession and was a valued citizen of the place during his whole subsequent life. His death occurred on March 7, 1892. He was active in public affairs and was a leader in Republican politics. In 1887 he was elected to the State Legislature, in which he served ably fot two terms, retiring from public life with no stain on his name as a statesman. Dr. Clancy was married first to Hannah Martin, who died in 1881. On February 1, 1883, he was married to the estimable lady who survives him. She was Miss Amanda W. Carter and was born at Bloomfield, Ohio, a daughter of John W. and Mary (Carr) Carter, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Jefferson County. Mr. Carter conducted a saddlery business at Bloomfield for many years and died there. His widow passed away at Smithfield. Dr. Clancy belonged to the Masonic fraternity at Steubenville. Both he and Mrs. Clancy were active in social life and both were members of the Methodist Protestant Church, with which body Mrs. Clancy is still identified.  Return to Family Tales
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