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Clammer, Jacob (1836-1904)
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History of Ritchie County
by Minnie Kendall Lowther
Wheeling News Litho. Co., Wheeling W.Va., 1911

Pages 548-549

Jacob Clammer was born in Fayette county, Maryland, in 1836, and
came to West Virginia, in 1859; and worked at the carpenter's trade
at Reedy, Roane county, for two years, before going to Calhoun
county, in 1861, where, on December the 22nd of that same year, he
enlisted as a Union soldier, in Company C. of the 11th Regiment,
West Virginia Infantry, and followed the old flag for three years,
being commissioned captain, on January 21, 1864. At the close of
the war, he returned to Calhoun county, where, in 1867, he was
married to Miss Rachel Stevens, a native of Marion county; and in
1875, he came to Smithville, as contractor and builder of the M. E.
church; and here he remained until he found a resting-place in the
village cemetery, in January, 1904. He served the town in the
capacity of miller, merchant (for fifteen years) and post-master
(for ten years); was justice of the peace for a number of years,
and was an official member of the M. E. church throughout his
residence here.

His widow and sons, G. M., S. H., Homer, Okey and Walter are all
residents of Colorado; and his daughter, Mrs. Isa Deem, lives in
Illinois; and Maggie and Albert lie in the Smithville cemetery. His
second son, S. H. Clammer is now Mayor of Ft. Collins. Colorado.

The Clammers are of German descent. Captain Clammer's father came
from the Fatherland, early in the nineteenth century — more than
ninety years ago — and settled in Maryland, when he was a young man
of twenty-six years, and there married a Dutch maiden, of
Pennsylvania, who died when some of the children were quite young.
The father then went to Iowa, where he died the following year. He
spelled his name "Klammar" when he arrived, but when it was
translated into English, it was spelled "Clemmer and Clammer."
Other relatives came at the same time, and some adopted the former,
and some the latter, mode of spelling it.

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