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Frank H. Clark

CLARK, ROBISON, DE MERET

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Date: 1/16/2010 at 18:10:58

FRANK H. CLARK

Frank H. Clark, engaged in general agricultural pursuits on section 23, Twin Lake township, has been a resident of Hancock county since he was fourteen years of age. He was born in Indiana, on the 26th of August, 1863, a son of John B. and Mary (Robison) Clark, the former a native of Massachusetts, while the latter was born in Ohio. They removed westward to Iowa and established their home upon a farm in Wright county when Frank H. Clark was six months old. He began his education under the direction of his father, who was a school teacher. He herded cattle when eleven years old and when fourteen he was farming with his brother-in-law in Hancock county. After this brother-in-law died he conducted the farm for his sister. Then for several years he broke prairie and worked with his team at whatever he could get to do. When twenty-seven years old he rented land for a year and then became owner of a forty-acre tract, for which he traded a pair of horses and an old wagon. This was situated on section 12, Twin Lake township, Hancock county. With characteristic energy he began the development of the farm and after some years he became the owner of three hundred and twenty acres on section 22 of the same township. When two years had passed, however, he sold that place and invested in one hundred and sixty acres on section 23, Twin Lake township, where he now makes his home. He carries on general farming, carefully tilling the soil in the production of those cereal? best adapted to climatic conditions here. His labors have brought to him a comfortable competence.

On the 9th of August, 1912, Mr. Clark was married to Miss Emma De Meret, a daughter of John and Harriet De Meret, natives of Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have a son, Harold F. Politically Mr. Clark is a republican but has never sought nor desired office, preferring to concentrate his time and energies upon his business affairs, which have been wisely managed. His life has been one of diligence and illustrates what may be accomplished through persistent, earnest effort and laudable ambition.

Source: History of Winnebago County and Hancock County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Vol. II. Pioneer Publishing Company (Chicago), 1917. pp. 443-444.


 

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