PVT Clayton J. Tiffany

1895 – 1959

USAR

WWI

Clayton Joseph Tiffany was born in Chicago on July 2, 1895 to Thomas F. and Elizabeth Kelly Tiffany.

He served as a Private in World War I, enlisting September 5, 1918 and assigned to Camp Grant in Rockford. He was honorably discharged on February 9, 1919 as troops were dismissed following Armistice Day, November 11, 1918.

He married Frances M. Brockway in 1923; they raised 3 daughters.

Tiffany was raised on a dairy farm in McHenry County, but lived in Mundelein after his marriage, where he served as the Police Chief for 18 years before becoming a Deputy Sheriff in Newport Township in Lake County. He was raised in a family of policemen -- his father was a policeman in Chicago at the time of the Haymarket Riot in 1886, and his brothers Lester and Frank were also Chiefs of Police in Lake County.

Private Clayton Tiffany died in Wauconda on January 17, 1959 and is buried with his wife in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.

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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.