Fresno County Biographies

B. R. Clow

Submitted by Sally Kaleta, May, 2007

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	B. R. Clow, M. D., resident physician of the town of 
Grangeville, was born in Lyons, Wayne County, New York, October 13, 1854. His 
preliminary education was received at the public schools and in the academy of 
his native town. At the age of eighteen years he went to Memphis, Missouri, and 
began reading medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. P. E. Minckler, a Canadian 
physician of considerable prominence, with whom he began his practice. He 
subsequently located at Marcella, Arkansas, where he was married in 1880, to 
Miss Mary L. Hill, of Nashville, Tennessee. In 1881, Dr. Clow took one course at 
the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, the oldest Eclectic college 
in the country, chartered in 1845, and for thirty years under the presidency of 
Prof. J. M. Scudder. After completing his course Dr. Clow pursued his practice 
at Moody, McLennan County, Texas. In 1884, he attended clinics at the Bellevue 
Hospital College in New York City. Returning to Moody he continued his practice 
until the fall of 1888, when he took a third course at Cincinnati and graduated. 
In June, 1889, he moved his family to Grangeville, and has since followed a 
general practice in that locality and the surrounding country. Besides his town 
property the Doctor owns forty acres adjoining the Lucerne vineyard, which is 
fully planted in vines and trees. Mr. and Mrs. Clow have three children - Mattie 
B., Abby L., and Scudder B. The Doctor is a member of the Masonic Order of 
Hanford and of the Farmer's Alliance.  

Source: "The Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, 
Tulare, and Kern, California," Lewis Publ. Co., 1892, p. 415.