CLARK, George B.

CLARK, ELWOOD, BURGIN, JOHNSON, CRANE

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Date: 10/17/2001 at 16:17:31

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF BROOKFIELD TWP.

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)

GEORGE B. CLARK, farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Elwood; a native of Mercer Co., Penn; born in 1819. Married Miss Gertie Elwood in 1844; she was also a native of Mercer Co.; born in 1824. They emigrated to Jackson Co., Iowa, in 1851, and entered land in Fairfield Township; remained until 1867, when they moved to this township; they have five children-Thomas J. (married Lydia Burgin), John A. (married Eliza I. Johnson), Ettie G. (married R. W. Crane, of Jackson Co., Iowa), George W. and Ruth. Mr. Clark has been a member of the Republican party ever since attaining his majority; has held various local offices. Owns sixty-eight acres of land, a portion of which is underlaid with building-stone of an excellent quality; has twenty acres of fine timber, containing a spring of living water, making it one of the most desirable farms in Clinton Co.