Remembering people who are part of Clare County’s history.
 | Alward, Dennis “Denny” | 1859-1930 | politician, Michigan Senate secretary (find-a-grave, CS 01 July 1910, CS 06 June 1930) |
 | Bates, George | 1890-1979 | sheriff (1935-1939), arrested Jack Livingston, probate judge (1940-1956) (find-a-grave, CCC 08 February 1979) |
 | Bennett, Harry | 1892-1979 | Henry Ford’s head of security, owned and developed Lost Lake estate & lodge (find-a-grave, CS 15 July 1965, CCC 04 February 2010, CCC 02 August 2012) |
 | Bicknell, Willard | 1904-1993 | owned Doherty Hotel, ran Bicknell’s Department Store, AJ Doherty’s grandson (find-a-grave, CS 19 October 1993) |
 | Bisbee, Jasper “Jep” | 1843-1935 | “old time” fiddle player from Paris, MI, performed at Doherty Hotel & Doherty Auditorium, friend of Henry Ford (find-a-grave, Michigan Fiddle, NYT 24 November 1923, CS 08 May 1925) |
 | Bransdorfer, Alfred “Al” | 1926-2004 | journalist, owned Clare Sentinel newspaper (find-a-grave, MDN 07 January 2004, CCC 15 January 2004) |
 | Calkins, John “Tip” | 1846-1923 | Calkins House (find-a-grave, CS 25 December 1902, CS 19 January 1923) |
| Callam, Peter | 1833-1895 | surveyed Clare, first general store, first postmaster, first “private dwelling” (CSDP 19 July 1895, CC 19 July 1895, ICE 26 July 1895, CS 27 July 1923) | |
 | Caple, William | 1884-1960 | Clare mayor, businessman (find-a-grave, MDN 06 June 1960, CS 09 June 1960) |
 | Cornwell, William | 1868-1944 | Cornwell Ranch, Saginaw Beef Company, Bancroft Hotel in Saginaw, Cornwell Lumber Company, banker (find-a-grave, CS 21 July 1944) |
 | Doherty, Alfred “AJ” | 1856-1929 | businessman, founder of Doherty Hotel, Michigan senator, Clare mayor, Clare utilities manager, Mackinac Island utilities manager (find-a-grave, CS 27 September 1929) |
 | Doherty, Alfred “Fred” Jr. | 1889-1956 | Mackinac Island utilities manager, owned Doherty Hotel, engineer (find-a-grave) |
 | Doherty, Floyd | 1878-1933 | Mackinac Island utilities manager, electrician, racecar driver, “first automobile in Clare,” Saginaw’s first radio station, hotel owner (find-a-grave, OCH 31 July 1930, CS 08 September 1933) |
 | Doherty, Helen | 1900-1990 | pianist, music teacher, Irish Festival grand marshal & hostess (find-a-grave) |
| Dunlop, John | 1857-1930 | doctor/druggist, Clare’s first brick building, “Golden Rod Balm” remedy (find-a-grave, CS 08 January 1915, CS 24 October 1930, CS 24 September 1959) | |
 | Dunlop, John | 1897-1949 | Clare mayor, Michigan congressman, cafe owner (find-a-grave, Legislator Details, CS 09 April 1937) |
 | Ford, Henry | 1863-1947 | Ford Motor Company, owned Ford Farm in Greenwood Township (find-a-grave, ICTN 10 April 1947, CN 11 April 1947, LCS 11 April 1947) |
 | Garfield, Sam | ?-1981 | Mammoth Oil company, landlord of Garfield Memorial Library (CS 24 June 1981) Small-Town Citizen, Minion of the Mob by Robert Knapp |
 | Gerrish, Winfield “Scott” | 1849-1882 | lumber baron, first logging railroad in mid-Michigan, first telephone in mid-Michigan (PBAOCM, FFFY, PG 28 June 1878, CCP 04 October 1878, GTH 28 November 1878, ER 26 May 1882, GCR 23 May 1884) |
 | Gershon, Julian | 1924-2025 | doctor, WWII veteran, centenarian (WWIIM, CS 11 June 1980, CS 09 November 1983, CS 07 October 1997, CCC 23 July 2025) |
 | Hammerberg, Kuno | 1901-2002 | doctor, WWII veteran, centenarian (find-a-grave, CS 28 November 1979) Kuno: One of the Last of the General Practitioners by Kuno Hammerberg |
 | Harriger, Robert | 1919-1983 | Clare High School graduate, WWII veteran, US Air Force colonel, Master Mason (CS 31 July 1942, CS 09 April 1943, CS 03 November 1944, CS 11 January 1962, CS 19 January 1983) |
 | Holbrook, Donald | 1909-1986 | judge, co-founded Eagle Boys Village (find-a-grave, CS 28 May 1969, CS 18 February 1986) |
 | Holbrook, Thomas “Carl” | 1897-1986 | lawyer, WWI veteran, assistant to Michigan Supreme Court Judge Harry S. Toy (find-a-grave, CS 04 January 1935) |
 | Holbrook, Thomas Charles | 1864-1949 | Holbrook Bazaar and Bargain Store (“book, grocery, and bazaar business,” “specialty of school books”) (find-a-grave, CS 26 August 1910, CS 23 December 1910, CS 29 March 1912, CS 13 April 1916, CS 05 August 1949) |
 | Kleinhardt, Charles | 1886-1950 | pastor (Brown Corners, Harrison U.B., Elm Grove, Colonville, Maple Grove, Arthur Center, & various schoolhouses), farmer (find-a-grave, CCC 02 February 1950, CS 03 February 1950) |
 | Knapp, Robert | 1946-2023 | historian, author, professor at University of California-Berkeley (CCC 10 April 2014, CCC 27 September 2023, University of California, Berkeley) books on Amazon.com |
| Littlefield, Josiah | 1845-1935 | Farwell village president, lumberman, provided land for Farwell School Forest (find-a-grave, CD 25 January 1889, CS 19 April 1929, CS 29 March 1935, CCC 22 June 2023) | |
 | Livingston, Carl “Jack” | 1894-1950 | oilman, from the Oklahoma Livingston family, murdered Isaiah Leebove in Doherty Hotel (CS May 20 1938) Mystery Man. Gangsters, Oil, and Murder in Michigan by Robert Knapp |
 | Leebove, Isaiah “Lee” | 1894-1938 | lawyer, Mammoth Oil company, murdered by Jack Livingston in Doherty Hotel, developed Wildwood estate & wildlife sanctuary (CS 22 October 1937, CS May 20 1938) Mystery Man. Gangsters, Oil, and Murder in Michigan by Robert Knapp |
| Maurer, Patricia “Pat” | 1946-2025 | journalist, owned Clare County Review newspaper (CCR 07 March 2025, CCR 14 March 2025) | |
 | McArthur, Grace | 1898-1986 | oil paint artist, “Michigan’s Grandma Moses,” sold paintings to Ford Times magazine (CS 13 September 1956, CS 20 April 1961, RC 07 November 1969, CS 24 February 1982, CS 28 October 1986, CCC 31 August 1989) |
| McEwan, William | 1824-1887 | lumber baron, owned & platted land that became Village of Clare (MTB, Bay County, MI Genealogy Trails) | |
 | McKenzie, Pearl | 1908-? | Modern Maid gas stations (CS 26 August 1938, CS 09 December 1938) |
 | Meek, Forrest | 1928-2012 | teacher, historian, author (CS 20 September 1978, CCC 16 August 2012) |
 | Meyer, John “Spikehorn” | 1870-1959 | naturalist (find-a-grave, CS 06 December 1994, CCC 30 September 1999, CCC 06 April 2000) Spikehorn–The Life Story of John L. Meyer by T. M. Sellers |
| Mielke, Carl | 1873-1971 | “world’s oldest bellhop” at Doherty Hotel (CS 19 December 1963, CS 29 January 1969, find-a-grave) | |
 | Perry, Charles | 1846-1930 | first Clare city mayor, banker, lawyer, Clare Woodenware Company (find-a-grave) |
| Pettit, Walter | 1883-1955 | owned and developed Wildwood estate, provided land for Pettit Park (find-a-grave) | |
 | Rabe, Wilmer “Bill” | 1921-1992 | publicist, promoted Irish Festival (find-a-grave, CS 16 June 1992) |
 | Schoolcraft, Henry | 1793-1864 | geographer, geologist, ethnologist, United States Indian agent, named Kaykakee County (find-a-grave) |
| Seligman, Jacob “Little Jake” | 1838-1911 | clothing merchant, banker, Saginaw street railway, owned a store in Farwell with Scott Gerrish (find-a-grave, OCD 08 February 1893, CS 27 October 1911, CS 23 April 1969, CS 05 September 1973 RC 01 October 1975) | |
 | Smith, Hazel | 1889-1988 | author of Farwell history, naturalist, missionary in China, daughter of Josiah Littlefield, provided land for CMU’s Neithercut Woodland (find-a-grave, CS 03 February 1921) Farwell: The First Fifty Years by Hazel Littlefield |
| Sternaman, Earl | 1890-1947 | photographer (CS 09 October 1936, CS 20 June 1947, CS 05 September 1947) | |
 | Tatman, James | 1859-1937 | teacher, grocery businessman (find-a-grave, CS 16 April 1937) |
 | Wolsey, Louis | 1877-1953 | rabbi, public speaker, attended school in Clare, “largest Jewish congregation in the United States” (find-a-grave, CS 18 January 1935, CS 08 December 1939, CS 02 February 1940, CS 07 February 1941, CCC 12 March 1953) |