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William Pitt Clough was descended from John Clough of Watertowm, Massachusetts, who came from England in the ship Elisabeth in 1635. He was born on March 20, 1845 at Freetown, New York, United States. He was the son of William Parks Clough and Sabrina (Vunk) Clough, a member of an old Dutch family. In 1848 the family moved to Erie County, Pennsylvania.
Clough received his early education in Erie County, Pennsylvania. He later entered the Northwestern State Normal School at Edinboro, Pennsylvania, taking a classical course, and graduating in 1862.
About 1862 Clough became a school-teacher, reading law at intervals, following which he went to Oil Creek, Venango County, Pennsylvania, in 1865 and spent two years in that region. In June of the same year he removed to Minnesota, settling at Rochester, where he entered a law office. Admitted to the bar of Olmstead County, Minnesota, July 3, 1868, he practised in Rochester till June 1872, when he moved to St. Paul, and, in association with John M. Gillman, acquired an influential legal connection.
In 1873 he was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the office of state attorney-general, but the nomination was made in his absence and without his acquiescence. In 1880 he became western counsel for the Northern Pacific Railway. In this position his outstanding ability attracted the attention of James J. Hill, then president of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway, who induced him to join the executive of the latter as assistant to the president, June 1, 1887. From that time he continued a close associate with Hill in all his enterprises. He became second vice-president January 1, 1888, remaining with the company until its absorption early in 1890 by the Great Northern Railway Company, of which he was then elected vice-president.
For some years Hill and J. Pierpont Morgan were considering means whereby the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroads might be brought under a unified control. Finally with that object in view the Northern Securities Company was formed in November 1901, and Clough, who had taken a leading part in the formulation and working out of the plans, became its fourth vice-president and general counsel, with headquarters in New York City. On the dissolution of the Northern Securities Company he continued in New York City as Hill’s personal representative, and, when the latter resigned the vice-presidency of the Northern Pacific Railway in July 1912, was elected to that office, becoming two years later chairman of the board of directors. Of a retiring disposition, he avoided publicity, and in later life was little known outside his immediate circle of business associates.
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Clough was married on May 19, 1867 to Dacia Alathea Green of Erie County, Pennsylvania.
