George Clementson
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George Clementson (b. March 13, 1842- d. 1903), American attorney, later elected Judge of Wisconsin's Fifth Judicial Circuit. George Clementson was born in Yorkshire, England, to Joseph Clementson, a wheelwright, and Elizabeth (Peacock) Clementson; in 1849, the Clementson family emigrated from England to the United States, settling in Hazel Green, Wisconsin.
George Clementson married Mary Asenath Burr on May 11, 1869. Their first child was George Burr Clementson, who followed in his father's footsteps, establishing his own law practice in Lancaster; within three years of his 1892 graduation from Cornell Law School, George B. Clementson had authored the first treatise on bicycle law.