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O. K. CLARDY

O. K. Clardy, attorney-at-law and publisher of the Plaindealer, of Fredericktown, a native of Platte County, Mo., born in 1855, is the son of Dr. Erasmus S, and Mary M. (Ott) Clardy. The father was born in Kentucky, in 1825, and was of Irish descent. His father, Johnson B. Clardy, came to Ste. Genevieve, Mo., about 1848, and represented the people in the State Legislature. He was a merchant and farmer by occupation. Dr. Erasmus S. was about grown when he came into the state, and graduated at the Louisville Medical College when about twenty-three years of age. He was married in St. Francois County, and immediately afterward moved to Old Mines, in Washington County, where he commenced his practice. About 1851 he moved to Platte County, and located at Parkville, where he resumed his practice, at which he continued until his death, which occurred in 1858, while he was yet in the prime of life. He was shrewd business man. His wife, Mary M. Ott, was born in New York in 1828, and was of Swiss origin. She is yet living, is a resident of San Antonia, Tex., and is an indefatigable temperance worker, having made temperance lectures in the South and West for the last twelve years. She is a very intelligent lady, being a graduate of the Albany Female College at Albany, N.Y. She is an ardent advocate of prohibition, and has done much to promote the good work. She is the mother of only one child, the subject of this sketch. He was educated in the common schools of Missouri, and the public schools of Albany, N.Y., for four years, and also attended at Arcadia College for three years. In 1878 he began the study of law, his preceptor being Hon. John B. Duchouquette. In 1879 he was admitted to the bar at Fredericktown, and in August 1882, he purchased the Plaindealer, and has since been publisher and prorietor of the same in Fredericktown. Mr. Clardy is a live newspaper man, and the columns of the Plaindealer are newsy and spicy. It is a Democratic paper. January 9, 1879, he married Miss Annie E. Roussin, a native of Madison County, Mo., born in 1858, and the daughter of Thomas Roussin. She is a member of the Catholic Church.