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CLINTON L. CONKLING, Attorney and Counselor at law, is a native of Springfield, Illinois, born October 16, 1843. He was educated in Yale College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1864. Clinton studied law in the office of his father, Hon. James C. Conkling, of Springfield, and was licensed to practice in the courts of Illinois, November 23, 1866, and the United States in January, 1867. After practicing a few years he turned his attention to the manufacturing business, but in 1877 resumed the duties of his profession to which he now gives his whole time, devoting special attention to chancery and real estate law, and to the settlement of estates. For some years Mr. Conkling was secretary of the Lincoln Monument Association, and has been an active member of the fraternity of Odd Fellows in Central Illinois, besides being identified with other and similar benevolent societies. He has also been a member of the Board of Supervisors of the county, two terms. In his real estate practice he represents large land interests in this and other States.