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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  WILLIAM CLARK. A veteran of the Mexican war and a pioneer of Nobles county is

William Clark, who resides at Worthington. He was born at Belfast, Ireland,

February 12, 1820. Although Ireland is his native country, his parents were

English and Scotch. His father was Joseph Clark, a native of England, and his

mother's maiden name was McCashlin, a Scotch family.



  William Clark's boyhood days were spent in England. When about fifteen years

of age, in 1835, he started for Australia, got as far as the Cape of Good Hope,

then changed his mind and came to America. He made his home in New York for many

years, working at different occupations. In 1857 he joined a party of pioneers

who were coming west. During the trip a short stop was made at Marengo, Ill.,

and there on March 20, 1857, he was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Lane,

another member of the party, a lady who has been his life's partner for over 50

years. Mr. and Mrs. Clark came to Lake City, Minn., and became pioneers of the

state, as later they did of Nobles county. Near Lake City Mr. Clark purchased a

farm, and there he and his wife made their home until 1873.



  On the last named date they came to Nobles county and purchased a farm in

Ransom township, where they made their home until 1882. Then they moved to

Worthington, at which place they have lived ever since.



  Mr. Clark is one of the few surviving veterans of the Mexican war. During

several of the campaigns of that war he served as orderly to General Winfield

Scott. He left the service shortly after the battle of Mexico.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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