Background
The son of Cassius M. Clay and Mary Jane Warfield Clay, Brutus Junius Clay II was born in Madison County, Kentucky, on February 20, 1847.
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Brutus Junius Clay II
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University of Michigan.
Career
He received a civil engineering degree from the University of Michigan in 1868, and worked as a wholesale and retail grocer. He lived at a Richmond, Kentucky home he called Linwood, and was also the owner and operator of lumber mills, stone, kaolin and potters clay quarries, gas and oil wells, and other businesses. In addition, he owned farms in Illinois and Kentucky, and a Mississippi cotton plantation.
Active in politics as a Republican, In 1897 he was offered appointment as Minister to Argentina by President William McKinley, but declined.
In 1900 he was a United States. Commissioner at the Paris Exposition. In 1904 he was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention.
In 1905 he was appointed Minister to Switzerland, serving until 1910. Clay died in Richmond, Kentucky, on June 2, 1932.
He is buried in Richmond"s Richmond Cemetery.
Brutus J. Clay II was married twice. Belle Lyman Clay, b. November 4, 1872
Christopher Field Clay, b. December 19, 1874
Orville Martin Clay, b.
May 7, 1879
Mary Warfield Clay, b.
September 26, 1882
Charlotte Elizabeth Clay, b. May 31, 1889
The Pattie A. Clay Infirmary, later the Pattie A. Clay Hospital, relocated several times and is now part of Baptist Health Richmond.
Clay"s home, now known as the Brutus and Pattie Field Clay House, is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Political Party
Republican party