Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Clark, Jonas 1826 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co.

JONAS CLARK, M. D., Woodland, was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, September 23,
1853. His father, also named Jonas Clark, was a native of the same State, while
his mother, whose maiden name was Rachel S. Bagley, was born in Brookfield,
Vermont. He was educated at the Waltham school and at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, where he remained three years. He completed his medical
course at Harvard University, where he graduated in June, 1875. In 1874 he
received the appointment of Interne of the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear
Infirmary, which position he filled until 1877, thus obtaining special
opportunities in the treatment of the eye and the ear. He arrived in California
in March, 1877, and in June following located in Yolo County, where he has since
been engaged in his chosen calling. He first settled at Dunnigan's, then at Yolo
and Knight's Landing, and finally in 1881 opened an office in Woodland. His
competency is well attested by an extensive and lucrative practice. On the first
of August, 1889, he formed a partnership with Dr. L. M. Gray, under the firm
name of Clark & Gray. During his residence here he has also paid considerable
attention to citrus culture, having a ranch of 160 acres in Colusa County, where
he had at one time a nursery of 5,000 orange trees; but they were destroyed by
the rabbit pest two years ago. During the present year (1889) he set out on his
land about thirty acres of peaches. He also has ten acres of choice land at the
town of Escalante, at the mouth of Capay Valley, which was planted in 1889 to
citrus fruits.

  The Doctor is a member of the orders of Knights of Pythias, Chosen Friends,
Foresters and United Workmen,—all at Woodland. He is also a member of the
Medical Society of the State of California, the Yolo County Medical Society, and
for a number of years has been secretary of the Yolo County Board of Health.

  Dr. Clark was married in June, 1876, to Miss Nora Tiernay, of Boston,
Massachusetts, and they have two children, John and Marie, aged ten and twelve
years respectively.


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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.

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