Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 1901,
reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical Society.

WILLIAM E. CLAY is a son of James H. Clay, of near town.  Mr. Clay's early
life was one of privation and hardship, and it was by dogged persistency
that he secured a good education and a certificate of graduation in one of
the best law schools of the country.  After attending the common county
schools he went to Valparaiso, Indiana, and there worked himself through
college.  That was in 1893, and he graduated from that school of learning
in 1895.  In July of the latter year he was married to Miss Ella O'Hara.
Later he attended the law school at Chicago, from which institution he
graduated in 1898.  Previous to this, however, he had read law at home
and had been admitted to the bar in 1895 at the October term of court.
Since his graduation in law, Mr. Clay has been an active practitioner at
the Grant county bar and has been successful.  Last year he became a
candidate for the Democratic nomination for County Attorney, and won the
nomination with ease, and after the beginning of the next year will be
the County Attorney of Grant County.  Mr. Clay is only twenty-six years
old, and his future is indeed a bright one.

Clay O'Hara
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