Alameda-Mariposa County CA Archives Obituaries.....Clark, Galen March 24, 1910
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The Enquirer, March 25, 1910
"In Tomb Of Granite in Yosemite Valley, the Discoverer of Giant Trees Is To Be 
Buried.

San Francisco, Cal., March 24. - Galen Clarke [sic], discoverer of the Mariposa 
Grove of Big Trees, and for 20 years guardian of the Yosemite Valley, died to-
night at the home of his daughter, Dr. Elvira Lee, of Oakland.

Mr. Clarke was 96 years of age.  He had been confined to his room for a day or 
two by a cold, and to-night his daughter found him dead in bed.

Clarke was born in New Hampshire in 1814.  He discovered the giant Sequas [sic] 
in 1857 while hunting.

The aged guardian of Yosemite will be buried in the valley in a tomb which he 
cut out himself in a huge granite rock within a stone's throw of the Yosemite 
Falls." END

Additional Comments:
The Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio.  March 25, 1910.

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