Daniel C. Clark , Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

DANIEL C. CLARK is a general merchant of Lecompte, and although he has had
to make his own way in the world, and is now only in the prime of life, he
has done well financially, and is now in independent circumstances.  He was
born in this parish in 1855 to Dr. Kenneth M. and Martha T. (Carnal) Clark,
and in this parish received his early education and rearing, afterward
entering the Christian Brothers College of Mississippi, in which
institution he remained for over two years.  He remained with his parents
until he was grown, at which time he entered the mercantile business, a
calling he is still successfully pursuing, employing one clerk.  He owns
the building in which he does business besides other property, and is a
gentleman who has always supported the men and measures of the Democratic
party, although he does not aspire to office.  His mother was born in
Rapides Parish, La., in 1827, and received her education in Baltimore, Md.,
and in New Jersey.  At about the age of seventeen, her education being
completed, she returned to Louisiana, and here met and married Dr. Kenneth
M. Clark, their union taking place in this parish in October, 1852.  Dr.
Clark was born, reared and educated in the Old North State, but after his
removal to Louisiana he began practicing medicine in the pine wood for
several years, continuing for several years after his marriage.  In 1872 he
removed to Lecompte and being a physician of much merit he soon acquired a
widespread reputation and a very large practice, accumulating thereby an
excellent property.  He was left at home to practice his calling during the
war, and was following this as his life work when death overtook him May 8,
1882.  A family of eight children in time gathered about their hearthstone,
their names being as follows:  Walter, David, Betsey, Reuben, Smith,
Kenneth, Clane and Rosa.  The mother of these children is residing in
Lecompte, La., and is a daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth (Williams) Carnal,
both of whom were born in North Carolina, moving to Louisiana after their
marriage and making their home here the rest of their lives, the father
being a successful agriculturist.  The grandfather, Carnal, died before
Mrs. Clark was born, and her mother's father, Gen. William Williams, was an
extensive slave owner and cotton planter of North Carolina and was of
Scotch descent.  The Clark family are members of the Episcopal Church.