George Clementson American

United States

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 attorney

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, later elected Judge

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 of Wisconsin

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's Fifth Judicial Circuit. George Clementson was born in Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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, England

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, to Joseph Clementson, a wheelwright

Wheelwright

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, and Elizabeth (Peacock) Clementson; in 1849, the Clementson family emigrated from England to the United States

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, settling in Hazel Green, Wisconsin

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George Clementson married Mary Asenath Burr on May 11, 1869. Their first child was George Burr Clementson

George B. Clementson

George Burr Clementson an American attorney and author of The Road Rights and Liabilities of Wheelmen. Published in 1895, The Road Rights and Liabilities of Wheelmen was the first treatise to address the legal rights and duties of cyclists; thus, Clementson was the first attorney to develop...

, who followed in his father's footsteps, establishing his own law practice in Lancaster

Lancaster, Wisconsin

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; within three years of his 1892 graduation from Cornell Law School

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, George B. Clementson had authored the first treatise

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 on bicycle law

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