Maricopa-Mohave County AZ Archives Biographies.....Clark, Augustus C. 1868 - living in 1896
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Author: McFarland & Poole

p. 494, 497

  AUGUSTUS C. CLARK. Augustus C. Clark, the present marshal of the City of
Phoenix, Arizona, is a young man worthy and well qualified in every way for the
position he now occupies; a most agreeable and social gentleman and deservedly
popular with the public. The life of this worthy young man has been
characterized by good impulses, successfully carried out by faithfulness to
every duty no matter how trivial and by the most honest methods in all his
business transactions. He was born in Austin, Nevada, March the 5th, 1868, and
was the first white boy born there. His father, N. W. Clark, is a Virginian by
birth, who emigrated to California in 1849, was successful in mining and made
quite a little fortune. He went into business with David Wood and they built a
tall bridge across the Uba River. The former also made the toll road from
Marysville over the Sierra Nevada Mountains to Virginia City. He married Miss
Mattie Curtis, at French Corrale, Nevada County, in 1866. Miss Curtis was born
in Wisconsin and came with her parents to California in 1859. She was the
daughter of Henry Curtis, a survivor of the Black-Hawk war, and now a United
States pensioner and a resident of Phoenix. City Marshal Clark's mother died at
French Corrale when he was but six months old. He was left with his grandparents
until his fifteenth year. They lived at Ventura, California, then moved to Los
Angeles County, and later to San Diego, where their grandson got most of his
schooling. In his fifteenth year he came to Arizona to his father, who had
failed in business in California and was in Arizona on the Sandy, in Mohave
County. While with his father Gus was employed as time-keeper on a toll road
being built near the Arnold mine. About this time his grandparents moved to
Phoenix and he returned to them, learning the tinner's trade and remaining in
the same shop some nine years, the last eight years as foreman for the business
for D. H. Burtis. He gave satisfaction to his employer and those from whom the
latter had patronage. He was popular and rated as a mechanic of rare ability,
proving thoroughly reliable in all contracts under his supervision. His kindness
to his grandparents has been loving and unwavering, he never forgetting the care
they gave him. In this he is an excellent example to many young men who have had
more opportunity than fell to his lot during his stay with them. In 1895 he was
elected to the office of City Marshal of Phoenix, Arizona, and is a most
faithful, efficient and capable public servant. Socially he is a member of the
Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 2 of Phoenix, and is a wideawake, progressive young
man of the place.


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A Historical and Biographical Record of the Territory of Arizona
Published by
McFarland & Poole, Chicago, 1896


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