Plumas-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Clark, Stephen J. 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

STEPHEN J. CLARK came from New York, and settled at Elizabethtown, where he
engaged in mining. He was not successful, however, and turning his attention to
politics, he sought and obtained the republican nomination for county treasurer
in 1861, and was elected over C. T. Kaulback and W. S. Ingersoll: the former
unconditional union, and the latter democratic. Clark was perhaps the best
political organizer the county ever had, and no politician ever had more devoted
friends or more inveterate enemies. The fusion between the two wings of the
union party was ruptured at the union convention in Quincy in the summer of
1865, when Clark became the nominee for sheriff, defeating Elisha H. Pierce, who
led the other wing. The result was a bolt, with another ticket, on which L. F.
Cate's name appeared for sheriff. Clark was defeated by Yeates, the democratic
nominee, through a sell-out by others on the ticket. [See the paragraph
preceding this.] Clark was again pitted against Yeates in the fall of 1867, and
was defeated through the action of Overton, candidate for county clerk, who
traded him off a second time. Soon after his retirement from office, Clark went
to San Francisco, but returned in the campaign of 1869 to defeat Overton's
deputy, who was running for clerk, which he accomplished by hard work. He then
went back to San Francisco, and obtained a position in the custom-house, where
he remained several years. He is still residing in the city. Clark was as true
to his friends as the needle to the pole, and the fidelity of his friends to him
has never been excelled in the history of parties.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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