Clark, William

CLARK

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 11/5/2008 at 13:57:55

William Clark

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.242, Valley Twp.)
William Clark, farmer, P. O. Oakland, was born in Ohio, near the Pennsylvania line, March 1, 1837, son of Charles and Sarah (McCreary) Clark. Mr. Clark had six sisters, three of whom are dead, and five brothers, three of whom are dead. The parents make their home with our subject. When fifteen years old, Mr. Clark moved, with his parents, to Illinois; in 1860, the moved to Kansas, remained there a short time and then came to Pottawattamie County, iowa, where Mr. Clark has since engaged in farming and stock-raising. In 1863, in Mercer County, Ill., Mr. Clark married Miss Martha A. Humbert, born in Indiana, daughter of E. M. Humbert, who died in March, 1881. Mrs. Clark has three sisters and three brothers living, and is the mother of five children - Fred, Sarah, Carrie, William and an infant. Mr. Clark has lived in this county twenty-one years, and on his present farm six years. He commenced with nothing, and now has a farm of 400 acres, all in cultivation and apstrure; he raises a fine grade of cattle, feeding most of his grain. He has one of the largest dwellings on the township, and has on his place a fine orchard of two and a half acres. Mr. and Mrs. Clark are memgers of the Baptist Church.