Imperial-Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Park, Clarence John 1877 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

CLARENCE JOHN PARK.—Prominent among the representative men of Brawley may be
mentioned Clarence John Park, who came to Imperial County in 1907. He is
enterprising and progressive, and is essentially a self-made man. Mr. Park was
born March 24, 1877, a son of Hiland H. and Lydia (Putnam) Park. His parents
settled in Wisconsin in 1852, coming from Vermont, where his ancestors settled
previous to the Revolutionary war. Mr. Park is eligible to join the Sons of the
American Revolution, on both sides of the family. Mr. Park's parents are both
deceased and are buried in Dodge Corners, Wisconsin. The subject of this review
attended the schools of Springfield, Missouri, where he entered Drury College.
At the age of twenty he went to Colorado, where he worked at surveying. Later he
went to Montana and assisted in the survey of the Burlington Missouri Railroad.
He worked in the surveying department on various railroads in Missouri,
Arkansas, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. In 1905 he removed
to Los Angeles, where he followed his profession until he came to Imperial
County as United States deputy surveyor for the re-survey of the county, in the
summer of 1907. Mr. Park then opened an office which he has maintained, except
in 1912, when he was appointed superintendent of Water Company No. 5 of
Holtville. Mr. Park settled on a homestead eleven miles east of Brawley. Here he
has erected substantial buildings and is putting his land under cultivation.
Fraternally Mr. Park is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge. He is a thirty-second
degree Mason, a member of the Consistory of Los Angeles, and holds membership in
the Al Mel Aika Temple of Los Angeles. He served as the first master of Brawley
Lodge. From 1910 to 1913 he was inspector of the Blue Lodges of Imperial County.
He is past patron of the Alamo Chapter of the Eastern Star of Brawley. Mr. Park
was married in Petersburg, Tennessee, October 17, 1912, to Miss Bertice Hart,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Hart of Petersburg, Tenessee. To Mr. and Mrs.
Park have been born one son, Jean H., born July 7, 1913.

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THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918

Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco

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