Compared to the rest of the country, Clovis's cost of living is 2.10% Lower than the U.S. average. As of 2014, Clovis's population is 37,538 people. Since 2000, it has had a population growth of 15.12 percent. Average Commute time is 15 minutes.
On this day in 1918, Ernest Hemingway, an 18-year-old ambulance driver for the American Red Cross, is struck by a mortar shell while serving on the Italian front, along the Piave delta, in World War I.
Hemingway was the second child and first son born to Clarence and Grace Hemingway. Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, was a physician, and his mother, Grace Hall-Hemingway, was a musician.