Columbiana County OhArchives News.....Fifty Six Years. Celebration of an Unusual Anniversary by an Old Citizen October 21 1893
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East Liverpool Crisis
Celebration of an Unusual Anniversary by an Old Citizen.
	The celebration of the golden wedding anniversary, indicating fifty 
years of married life, is not an unusual event among the sturdy stock that 
compose a large part of American citizenship, but beyond that point they become 
rare. One was celebrated yesterday at Wellsville which was unusual and 
additionally noteworthy as an event in the life history of a venerable couple 
whom all respect and delight to honor. On the 20th day of October, 1837, 
William L. Clark, then a stripling of twenty-three, was married to the lady who 
for fifty-six years has been his companion and helpmeet, and on yesterday the 
day was quietly celebrated by the couple, whose appearance would indicate that 
they may live to celebrate many more such anniversaries.
	Mr. And Mrs. Clark are among the oldest of the old residents of 
Wellsville, which has been their home for nearly sixty years. Mr. Clark is one 
of the oldest printers and editors in the State, having been connected with the 
newspaper business in an editorial or mechanical way for sixty-six years.
	He was born in Snow Hill, Maryland, and at the age of twenty-one came 
to Wellsville, where he set the first type that was ever set in that city. 
Before leaving the East he assisted Mr. Lewis Caton select and pack the type in 
Baltimore, which they brought with them, hauling it in a wagon across the 
mountains, and Mr. Caton, on reaching here, commenced the publication of 
Wellsville’s first paper, the Commerical Advertiser. In 1847 Mr. Clark bought 
the American Patriot from Alexander McBane and at the end of the first year 
changed the name of the paper to the Wellsville Patriot. Since owning and 
publishing the Patriot, he has been connected with a number of papers at 
different localities, in one capacity or another.
	Mr. Clark is still hale and hearty, with mental faculties unimpaired, 
and continues firm in the Democratic faith that has sustained him politically 
for more than three-fourths of a century.


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