Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — THE GUNMAKER OF ILION. [ARTICLE]

THE GUNMAKER OF ILION.

JEFFERSON M. CLOUGH REFUSES A TEMPTING OFFER FROM THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. * $ His Health Was Too Poor to Permit Attention to Business—A Great - Suffer or for Many Years, bnt Has Now Recovered'; (From the Springfield, Mass., Union.) There isn’t a gun manufacturer ia the United States who does not know Jefferson M. Clough, and why 7 Because he has been intimately associated all his life with the development of the tyjo best American rifles? the Remington and Winchester. For years he was superintendent of the E. Remington & Sons’ great factory at llion, N. Y. After leaving there he refused a tempting offer of the Chinese Government to go to China to superintend their Government factories—and accepted instead the smierintendency of the Winchester-Arms Co., at New Haven, at a salary pf $7,500 a year. v It was after this long term of active labor as a business man that he found himself incapacitated fot.further service by the embargo which rheumatism had laid upon him and resigned his position more than two years ago, and returned to Belcliertown, Mass., where tie now lives and own the Phelps farm, a retired spot where he has 500 acres of land. Being a man of means he did not spare the cost and was treated by leading physicians and by baths at celebrated springs without receiving any benefit worth notice. During the summer of 1803 and the Winter of 1894 Mr. Clough was confined t 6 his house in Belchertown, being unable to rise from his bed without assistance, and suffering continually with acute pains and with no taste or desire for food, nor was he abre to obtain sufficient sleep. Early in the year 1894 Mr. Clough heard of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. He began taking these pills about ths first of March, 1894, and continued to do so until the first part of September following. The first effect noticed was a better appetite, and he began to note more ability to help himself off the bed and to be better generally. Last August (1894) he wns able to go alone to his summer residence and farm of 188 acres on Grenadier Island, among the Thousand Islands, in the River St. Lawrence, where from the highest land of liis TfiTrfi' he'. commands a view for thirteen miles down the river, and sixty of the Thousand Islands can be seen. Instead of being confined to his bed Mr. Clough is now and has been for some time able to be-about tlie fnrm to direct the men employed there, and he is thankful for what Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills have done for him. These pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold only in boxes bearing the firm’s trade mark and wrapper, at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and are never sold in bulk. They may be had of ali druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co.