Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Angell, Clark L. 1838 - 
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  CLARK L. ANGELL, photographer, is one of the pioneers of Minnesota, as well as one
of the first settlers at Litchfield, after the village was platted. He was born in
Jefferson county, N. Y., in May, 1838, and is the son of Nicholas and Aseneth
Angell. His parents were both natives of Vermont, but were removed by their families
to New York in their childhood. His father was enrolled among the brave defenders of
his country, during the last war with Great Britain in 1812-1815, and it is within
the recollections of his mother viewing the battle upon Lake Champlain, as they
lived at or near Plattsburgh. After their marriage the parents of our subject
removed to Jefferson county in the same State, where the elder Mr. Angell died, at
the age of sixty-one. His widow came to Minnesota, where she died at the advanced
age of eighty-eight.

   Clark L. was reared in the Empire State, but at the age of eighteen years
commenced life for himself, starting for the West in the fall of 1855, stopping
first at Dunlieth, Ill., which was then the terminus of the railroad. From there he
took a boat up the Mississippi river to St. Paul, and the following spring, of 1856,
he claimed government land near Rockford, Minn., that being previous to the laying
out of the village. H remained there, improving his claim, until the war broke out,
when, in the fall of 1861, in response to the first call for men, he enlisted in
Company A, Third Minnesota Infantry. He spent a year in the army, serving in
Tennessee and Kentucky, and was finally discharged on account of sickness, and soon
returned to Minnesota. He then learned photography, and spent most of his time on
the road, until the fall of 1869, when he settled in Litchfield and opened the art
gallery, which he still conducts. He at once erected a house and brought his family
here in the spring of 1870. Litchfield has since been his home, and he now has one
of the finest and most complete galleries in this part of the State. Mr. Angell is
an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was one of the charter
members of the first post organized at Litchfield. He also a member of the Masonic
fraternity, having been one of the charter members of Golden Fleece Lodge, No. 89.


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Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888

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