Yolo-Sierra-Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Clark, Jesse 1821 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

JESSE CLARK, a retired farmer and an old resident of Woodland, was born December
8, 1821, in Christian County, Kentucky, a son of Henry and Priscilla Clark; his
father, a farmer, was a native of Tennessee, and his mother of North Carolina.
When a small boy Henry Clark was taken to Kentucky, where he remained a number
of years; he then moved to Cole County, Missouri, on the Osage River, and
resided there nine years; then moved to Chariton County, Missouri, where he
remained until his death in 1861, at the age of eighty-four years. His wife died
in 1865. In their family were six sons: Isaac, Benjamin, Henry, Michael and
Ephraim, besides the subject of this sketch.

  Jesse Clark was brought up on a farm. At the age of eighteen years he left
home for two years; at the age of twenty-four he married and commenced farming
for himself, and remained in Missouri until April 6, 1852, when he started
overland with ox teams to California, in a train of five wagons and about forty
persons, arriving in this State August 13. In company with his brother Henry he
engaged in mining about a year in Sierra County; then spent a winter in the
Sonoma Valley, while his brother continued in charge of the mines in Sierra
County. In 1854 he began searching for a ranch where he could make his home, and
after hunting around considerably he settled three miles southwest of what is
now Woodland, on 160 acres. After a residence there of fifteen years, and making
a fine farm, he moved into Woodland, where he now resides, in a beautiful
residence on West Main street. He sold his farm in 1884, since which time he has
been taking life easy. When he first settled in this county his trading post was
Cacheville, and Woodland was unthought of.

  In 1845 he married Miss Sarah Sanders, a native of Missouri, and they have had
eight children, six daughters and two sons. The daughters are: Mary Jane,
Priscilla, Margaret Frances, Usith, Amanda and Pesthania. The first mentioned is
dead; the second married S. T. Pendegast; Margaret married A. J. Hall; Amanda
became the wife of R. M. Huston; Usith is now Mrs. Hanford Hubbard; and
Pesthania married P. J. Flannigan. The two sons—H. C. and R. L.—are married.
Henry resides in Lassen County, farming, and R. L. resides in San Francisco.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

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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