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Clyde Girod, of Fairview township, is not only the leading Holstein breeder of pace bloods in Butler county, but stands in the front rank of that industry in the United States. Clyde Girod is a native son of Butler county. He was born in Fairview township. June 26, 1886, and is a son of Irenu and Martha (Shrader) Girod. The father is a prominent farmer and stockman of Fairview township, and a pioneer of that locality, He homesteaded in Fairview township, in 1870. Irenu Girod is a native of Leige, Belgium, and a Son of a Protestant French minister. Martha Shrader, the mother of Clyde Girod, is a native of Illinois, and a daughter of Jacob and Martha Elizabeth (Ford) Shrader, the former a native of Ohio, and the latter, of Kentucky. The Shrader family were very early settler in Kansas, coming to this State from Sangamon county. Illinois, in 1859. They first settled in Jefferson county, and remained there until 1874, when they came to Butler county, and the father homesteaded in Fairview township. He died in 1900, and his wife departed this life in 1909.

Clyde Girod is one of a family of nine children, born to his parents, as follows: Jacob, farmer, Butler county; Paul, farmer, Haskell county; Philemon, Bellingham, Wash.; Irenus, Cawley county, Kansas; Clyde, the subject of this sketch; Estella, married Dare Wait, Towanda township; Mae, married Irvin Sciklebower; Harvey, resides at home, and Ernest, deceased .

Source : Mooney, Vol. P.  : History of Butler County, Kansas; Lawrence, Kan.: Standard Pub. Co., 1916, 894  pgs.