Marin-Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Clark, Samuel 1827 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Samuel Clark. This worthy gentleman and pioneer was born in Erie county,
Pennsylvania, Sept. 9, 1827, and is the son of D. A. and Mary Clark. When about
fourteen years of age he left home, went to New York and shipped on board a
vessel bound for Liverpool. He continued to follow a seafaring life till the
Fall of 1852, at which time he arrived in San Francisco. At the time of his
arrival he was very ill with the Panama fever, and he went to Washington, Yolo
county, to a hospital, where he was finally cured by an old-fashioned Arkansas
doctor. In the Spring of 1853 he came to Bolinas, and began boating and hunting.
In 1855 he went to Arizona, and followed steamboating on the Colorado river for
one year, when he returned to Bolinas and located permanently. Mr. Clark has
always been a public-spirited and enterprising gentleman, and has been honored
with more than one position of trust, by the suffrages of his neighbors. In 1856
he was elected constable, and in 1867 he was chosen to represent his district as
Supervisor, which position he filled to the great satisfaction of his
constituents. In 1873 he was again elected to the same position. He has also
been Justice of the Peace for Bolinas township. In 1863 the "Pike County Gulch
Copper Mining Company" was organized, and Mr. Clark was chosen as President, and
when, in 1874, the "Bolinas Steam Navigation Company" was organized, he was
honored with the chief position in the corporation. He has held the office of
school trustee for a number of years, and takes great interest in the
advancement of education, recognizing in it one of the great civilizing agents
of the world. In Capt. Samuel Clark is to be found one of Nature's true
noblemen, plain, unassuming, honest, truthful — in truth a very gentleman. He
was married June 22, 1867, to Miss Frances Nott, who was born at Bolinas in
1851. Their children are Colfax, born April 14, 1869; Marcia, born June 27,
1870; Gordon, born July 24, 1874; Helena, born December 25, 1875; Frances, born
April 25, 1877; Ellis, born August 16, 1878.

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HISTORY OF MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA;
INCLUDING ITS
Geography, Geology, Topography and Climatography;
TOGETHER WITH
A Full and Particular Record of the Mexican Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the most Authentic Sources; Names of Original Spanish
and American Pioneers;

A Full Record of its Organization; A Complete Political History, including a
Tabular Statement of Office-holders since the Formation of the County;

Separate Histories of Bolinas, Nicasio, Novato, Point Reyes, San Antonio, San
Rafael, Saucelito, and Tomales Townships;

Incidents of Pioneer Life, and Biographical Sketches of its Early and Prominent
Settlers and Representative Men;
ALSO
An Historical Sketch of the State of California,
In which is embodied the Raising of the Bear Flag

ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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