William Clancy, WWI hero

Stories From Ipswich and the North Shore

Harold Bowen wrote inTales fromOlde Ipswich that William Clancy’s family lived in the Old Post Office on North Main Street. Thomas Franklin Waters spokeabout historic actions by William Clancy in a 1917 address to the Ipswich Historical Society, reprinted from the Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society.

“Ipswich pride was stirred by the story that found place in London papers and in the New York Sunday magazines that William Clancy, Boston-bor...