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CLAY TALLMAN HAS WORKED HIS OWN WAY UP Clay Tallman, Democratic candidate for Congress, who will speak here to-morrow evening, says the Ely Expositor. was born in Ionia County, Michigan in 1874, his parents being old New England stock. He was born and brought up on a little Michigan farm without much on it but a mortgage, to clear off which the whole family had to dig. His parents were of extraordinarly good habits and industrious, and both did all in their power for the assistance of his brother and himself and made innumerable sacrifices for the boys though their lot was to work and to work hard at all times. Clay Tallman went to the common public school and in due time succeeded in procuring a common and limited high school education. He then taught for a year in a country school in order to collect funds with which to go to college, and about '92 entered the Michigan Agricultural College from which he was graduated in 1895 with a Bachelor's degree, at the age of 21 years. His parents assisted him materially, but he was able to and did earn a large part of the expenses during this college course, principally by teaching country schools during the Winter months. From 1895 to 1898 he was engaged in public school work in Michigan, as principal and superintendent, and who is known there as county examiner. In 1898 he came west to Colorado and entered Colorado University at Boulder, where he was a graduate student and first year law student for one year. Thereafter he entered public school work in Colorado, which occupation he followed for three years. In the Fall of 1902 he returned East and entered the law department of the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Law in 1904. Mr. Tallman came to Nevada in the Spring of 1905, seeking the southern desert country. He went to the Bullfrog district on the first six-horse stage, when Rhyolite consisted of a habitation of a couple of thousand people, all living in tents. At that place he resided until four or five months ago, when he removed to Tonopah. During his residence at Rhyolite he was closely identified with the development of that section of the country. During the last two years of his residence there his practice was connected with the affairs of the Bullfrog Bank & Trust Company, which failed during the recent panic, and later he became the receiver of the First National Bank of Rhyolite under the direction of the Comptroller of the Currency. There is scarcely a branch of the law that he has not had some active part in during his residence in Nevada. In 1908 he was elected to the Nevada Senate to represent Nye County, which was his first active experience in Nevada politics. During the session of 1909 he was chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee and of the joint committee appointed to investigate affairs at the University of Nevada and wrote the report of the committee which was adopted and published. He compiled and introduced the Banking Act of 1909, which became a law. As originally prepared and introduced, the bill included provisions for a bank guarantee of deposits, which clauses were amended out in the face of all