Clyde R. Showalter From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 990.

TOWN OF FENNIMORE

CLYDE R. SHOWALTER, teacher of high school, Fennimore; son of John Showalter, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1833, and came to Lancaster when a young man. He married Phebe Roberts, who was born in Kentucky, and came to Grant Co. in 1840. They had two children - Clyde and Portia. Mr. John Showalter enlisted on the breaking out of the rebellion, in the 2d Wisconsin Cavalry; served three years, and re-enlisted for the war. He died from disease contracted in the army in June, 1865. Clyde graduated at the State Normal School at Platteville, in 1879.

 


This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.