John Claybrook
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John C. Claybrook (June 11, 1872 – July 21, 1951) was a logger, farmer and businessman in the United States. He owned property in Arkansas. He owned a semi-professional baseball team and developed Claybrook, Arkansas.
He was born in Florence, Alabama. He received a William E. Harmon Foundation Award for Distinguished Achievement Among Negroes.
He cut timber, acquired land, grew cotton, and developed a timber industry town of Topaz into what became known as Claybrook with a boarding house and mill. Ernie Pyle wrote a column about him in the Memphis Commercial Appeal June 18, 1936 (republished in 1947 in Pyle's Home Country. His semi-professional baseball team the Claybrook Tigers played in the Negro Southern League, winning a couple of championships with Ted Radcliffe.
He married, became a widower, remarried, and had a son John Claybrook Jr. and three daughters with his second wife Emma G. Claybrook.
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