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Harvard Portrait: Amanda Claybaugh

Academics sometimes say you can see the seeds of an entire career in a scholar’s first book. “I’ve always felt that’s not true about my book,” says professor of English Amanda Claybaugh about The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World, “but that is a question for me: What is the purpose behind literature? Is it enough to be good and meaningful? Should there also be some kind of social good?” After receiving her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2001, Claybaugh moved to Columbia, offering courses in English and comparative literature and earning praise for her teaching, as she had in Cambridge. (Having won two Bok Awards in graduate school, she became the first junior faculty member to win Columbia’s Presidential Teaching Prize.) She returned to Harvard in 2010. She’s currently at work on two books. One is a study of representations of the expanding federal government in post-Civil War literature: “Our political environment today is troubled by our inability to understand what the federal government does for peo

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Claybaugh History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Etymology of Claybaugh

What does the name Claybaugh mean?

The ancestry of the name Claybaugh dates from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britain. It comes from when the family lived in Cliburn, a small parish in the county of Westmorland (now part of Cumbria). The place name dates back to c. 1140 when it was listed as Clibbrun. Literally it means "stream by the cliff or bank," from the Old English words "clif" + "burna." 1

Early Origins of the Claybaugh family

The surname Claybaugh was first found in Westmorland at Cliburn, a village and civil parish, in the West ward and union 2, now in the Eden District of Cumbria. "The parish is pleasantly situated between the rivers Eden and Lavennet, which bound it on two sides, and is intersected by the small river Lethe." 2 Cliburn Hall, is a three storey Pele tower built by Robert de Cliburn in 1387. Richard Cliburn made changes to the hall in 1567 and added a stone which reads "Richard Cleburn this they me called. In which my time hath b

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VIP Biography for
William J. Claybaugh

William J. ClaybaughIndustryAgricultureTitleTreasurer/PartnerExpertiseComputersCurrent OrganizationTWJ Farms & FeedsType of OrganizationManufacturing companyMajor ProductFeedArea of DistributionNebraskaUniversity/DegreeKisswkee College, 1971; B.S., Animal Science, Iowa State University, 1973BornSeptember 26, 1951, Henderson, NebraskaHonors & AwardsNebraska Delegate to AFBF Beef Advisory Committee, 1988, 1995AffiliationsAmerican Farm Bureau; Nebraska Farm Bureau; Northeast Nebraska Cattleman; National Cattleman Beef Association; Nebraska Poultry Industries; Wayne Country Farm Bureau; U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Nebraska Chamber of Commerce; Past President, Carroll Community Club; Co-chairman, Carroll Centennial Committee; President of Volunteer Association, Carroll Volunteer Fire Department; Administrative Board, Board of Trustees, Wayne First United Methodist Church; Board Member, Providence Medical Center FoundationHobbies & SportsSelling and breeding cat

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