Bio of Clark, William (b.1825) Wabasha Co., MN
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Clark, William, farmer, of Plainview township, was born in the Allegheny
mountains, Hardy county, in the State of Virginia, April 23, 1825. His
father, Hendricks Clark, owned a mill and distillery. In 1835 the family
removed to Canton, Ohio, and engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1844,
when in his twentieth year, our subject went to Indiana, where for eight
years he did farm work summers and taught school winters near Goshen. In
1852 Mr. Clarke crossed the plains to California, performing the entire
journey from Omaha to Sacramento on foot. He tarried in the mining-camps
of Downieville, on the Yuba river, for one year, and spent another year
farming near Benicia before returning to the states. On May 12, 1856, he
located his claim on section 18 in Plainview. To his original
quarter-section he has made additions and now owns four hundred acres of
fine land just west of Plainview village. Mr. Clark's father was a Quaker,
and sought to bring up his children in the way they should go, but his son
William was not always the most tractable boy, and when ten or twelve
years old used to devote more time to hunting, fishing and nutting than to
Sunday schools; but notwithstanding his wildness there was no innate
wickedness in his heart, while his mind was endowed with those literary
tastes which rendered him a fine student.