Marriage and Issue
On February 4, 1908, Dillon married Anne McEldin Douglass (b. September 26, 1881, Peoria, Illinois - d. November 8, 1961, Far Hills, New Jersey) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Anne was the daughter of George Douglass (Chillicothe, Ohio, July 19, 1843 - Milwaukee, September 29, 1919) and his wife and second cousin (m. near Lafayette, Ohio, October 6, 1867) Susan Virginia Dun (near Lafayette,August 21, 1846 – Richmond, Virginia, January 8, 1937).
Their son, C. Douglas Dillon (later Secretary of the Treasury, 1961–65) was born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1909. Their daughter, Dorothy, was born in 1913 and died on June 8, 2005 in Far Hills, New Jersey. She was predeceased by her husbands, Philip Allen, Sydney Shepherd Spivack and Eric Eweson.
Clarence purchased show dog Fontclair Festoon from Dody Jenkins. This dog would go on to win best-in-show at the Westminster Kennel Club in 1959. The dog was handled by Anne Rogers Clark.
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