Rev. William Daily Clayton Bernalillo County, New Mexico

Rev. William Daily Clayton, a retired minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now living in Albuquerque, came to New Mexico in 1883. He was born at what is now Clayton, St. Louis County, Missouri, in 1838, the town having been named in honor of his father, Ralph Clayton, who gave one hundred acres for the county seat, and who lived there, a most respected citizen, for sixty-three years.

The children of Rev. Clayton are: Dr. Edmund Mills Clayton, of Albuquerque: William Moore Clayton, a practicing attorney, and a daughter, Delia McKnight, at home.

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Source: History of New Mexico, Its Resources and People, Volume II, Pacific States Publishing Co., 1907.