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Excerpt from Genealogy and History of the Clay Family In some respects the Clays were a peculiar people. They have mostly led very quiet and uneventful lives. Most of them have been engaged in agricultural pursuits. Some have been mechanics; a few in trade. Hardly any in what is called the professions. Some have been active in town and county affairs. But none have ever reached a very high position in the state or nation. In this respect we fall far behind our distant kinsmen, the Southern Clays. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.