Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....W.B. Clark  1858 -  Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., Published by the Atlanta Historical Society in 1895

Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895
Page 504

W. B. Clark

W.B. Clark, is one of the active and successful business men of Meriwether 
county, is a native of this county, born in 1858; his parents, Henry G. and 
Nancy J. (Ray) Clark, were among the first settlers of this county, the father 
being a native of Virginia and a son of Samuel and Susan (Drake) Clark. Samuel 
Clark was of Irish nativity, and having emigrated to this county in his early 
years, served in the war of 1812, and later came to Georgia. His son Henry’s 
wife, Nancy, was a daughter of George R. and Nancy Ray, who were also early 
settlers of this county. W.B. Clark spent his early years, until he reached 
the age of twenty-one, upon the farm, making the most of such education as he 
could obtain in the country schools of his neighborhood. He them came to Rocky 
Mount and engaged as clerk with J.H. Salmon (a Scotchman who came to this 
country in 1878). After five years young Clark bought out his employer’s 
business, which he continued to carry on with great success, and has acquired 
a considerable fortune by his own industry and economy. In 1890 he married Ann 
Braswell, a native of Meriwether county, born in 1873, and the daughter of 
Hugh and Fannie (Roe) Braswell, old settlers of the state, the father a 
soldier in the late war.



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