Background
Clune was born in Rochester, New New York
Clune was born in Rochester, New New York
He attended West High School and for a short time was a student at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
As a young boy he lived in the Linden Street neighborhood of the fourteenth ward. At the age of twenty, Clune joined the staff of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, first as a volunteer, then as a paid employee. Foreign almost forty years his column "Seen and Heard" appeared in the paper approximately three times a week.
The column captured the color and flavor of life in Rochester, and was based on thousands of interviews Clune conducted with residents and visitors to the city.
In 1933 a compilation of Clune"s newspaper columns was published in the book Seen and Heard. Family
The Clunes, who had four sons, lived for many years in Scottsville, New New York
Clune died on October 9, 1995 at the age of 105. Mistress Clune died in 1990 at the age of 91.