Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Elisha Gatchell CLOUD
He was a leading farmer and Influential citizen of East Marlborough township, Chester County, is a representative of one of those old families which have been resident in the county since the early colonial period.
He received his education at the Unionville Academy and the Freeland Institute. At the latter school he enjoyed the benefit of the instruction of the well known Professor Fetterolf, now president of Girard College. Shortly after Nr. Cloud completed his education, by the death of his father, he succeeded to the homestead, where he has since resided, devoting himself with intekkigent and assiduous zeal to his duties as farmer, in wich he makes a specialty of cattle-feeding. Although a youth at the time of the Civil War he can show a military record, having served six months in the army. Not withstanding the fact that the care of his estate absorbs the greater part of his time, he has attention to bestow on other interests, and is now one of the directors of the West Chester Dime Savings Bank. In politics he is an Independent Republican, and is deservedly popular with his party, having been elected in the autumn of 1894 to the office of Prothonatary. He entered upon the discharge of his duties the first Monday in the first month of the following year, and held the office for three years. He is a birthright member of the Society of Friends, adhering to the religious belief of his ancestors.
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