Biographical Sketch of H. F. Clark, Johnson County, Missouri,
Warrensburg Township

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.

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H. F. Clark, ex-mayor of Warrensburg, and a highly respected pioneer
of Johnson county, was born in 1836 in Virginia.  He is the son of 
Richard Harvey and Mary (White) Clark, natives of Virginia.  H. F.
Clark is the only survivor of a family of eleven children.  One brother
A. P. Clark, died recently at the age of 85 years, in Lawrence, Kansas.
H. F. Clark received his education in the public schools of Ohio, to
which state the Clark family moved when he was a child.  When he was
thirteen years of age, his mother died and he was obliged to leave sch-
ool and to seek work.  Mr. Clark has at different times been a boatman,
a miner, and a grocer.  In 1861 he came from Ohio to Missouri and loca-
ted on the Missouri river in Gasconade county.  In the spring of 1864
he came to Warrensburg, where he opened a general store although he 
still engaged in farming near Warrensburg.  In 1861, H. F. Clark and
Rosa (Goff) Clark were united in marriage in Muskingum county, Ohio. 
To H. F. and Rosa (Goff) Clark were born the following children: John,
who was a pharmacist in Warrensburg, died at the age of 52 years; Mary,
died at the age of 16 years; Stanton, who was reared to maturity and
educated in the schools of Warrensburg, Mo., and died at the age of 23
years at Norman, Oklahoma, where he was engaged in the drug business;
two children died in infancy; H. C., a merchant of Warrensburg; W. S.,
who is at the head of the Warrensburg Wholesale Grocery business; Mrs.
Rose Bradshaw, wife of Ed. Bradshaw, a broker of New York City; and
Ethel, who is the wife of Charles Houx, a prosperous stockman of 
Centerview township and president of the Bank of Centerview, a sketch
of whom appears in this volume.  Mrs. Clark died in 1907 and her re-
mains were interred in the cemetery at Warrensburg, where the children
who preceded her in death were also buried.  Mr. Clark, who is now 81 
years of age, makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. Charles H. Houx.
He is one of Senator Cockrell's most valued friends.

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