Clyde Clark

CLARK, LEWIS

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 3/6/2007 at 20:37:17

Clyde Clark

Clyde was born at Story City, Iowa, in 1892. He was raised on a farm near Cedar Rapids, until the family moved to Chamberlain, South Dakota, in 1907. For five years he worked on a ranch and rode range, tending livestock along the Missouri River.

In 1912, he came to Terrill, Iowa, and worked as a railroad mail clerk on the Milwaukee railroad run from Algona, Iowa, to Chamberlain, South Dakota.

In 1917, he married Zola Lewis. They lived on a farm south of Superior, Iowa, from 1918 until 1941, when they purchased the King farm two and one half miles east of Harris.

They had four children: Wanda in Minnesota; Bonnie in California; Lewis (Bud) in Montana; and Allen who lives with his wife Marge on the home place. Clyde also resides on the home place. His wife died in 1977, at the age of 77.

Clyde will be 97 years old on February 11, 1989, our centennial year.