Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Clark, John L. 1835 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Ann Anderson ann.g.anderson@gmail.com November 20, 2005, 9:34 pm

Author: Warner, Beers & Co.

   JOHN L. CLARK, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Logan County, Ohio, October
16, 1835, and is a son of Alvan and Mary (Laughlin) Clark. His father was born
in Beaver County, Penn., March 5, 1809, and his mother in Erie County, Penn.,
March 3, 1809. Their parents had removed to Guernsey County, Ohio, during the
early settlements of that State. Alvan Clark's parents were Thomas B. and Nancy
Clark. The latter died in Guernsey County, Ohio, leaving a family of five
children, and Mr. Clark subsequently remarried and in 1832 removed to Logan
County. He had five children by his second wife. He died in 1851, aged
seventy-one years. Our subject's maternal grandparents were John and Deborah
Laughlin, also Pennsylvanians, who removed to Guernsey County, Ohio, prior to
the war of 1812. The father of our subject was married, in 1834, in Guernsey
County, whence he removed in the fall of the same year. He died there on the
farm of his settlement, August 10, 1878. Mrs. Clark died September 18, 1881.
They had six children, three living, of whom our subject is the eldest. The
subject of this sketch was reared on the homestead, and educated at the academy
in Washington, Guernsey County, Ohio. On leaving school, be engaged in buying
and shipping stock, in which business he remained for ten years. In October,
1861, he enlisted in Company D, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served
in the eastern division. He fought in the battle of Port Republic. He was a
member of the band of engineers, from which he was discharged by order of the
Secretary of War August 4, 1862. On May 10, 1864, he was enrolled as First
Lieutenant of Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-second Ohio National Guards, and
was engaged on garrison duty in Virginia. He received honorable discharge at
Columbus, Ohio. in September, 1861. His father also served in the late war; in
September, 1861, he recruited Company D, of the Sixty-sixth Regiment Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, and was Captain of Company D, of the same regiment. He was
discharged, on account of disability, in October, 1862, and died from troubles
contracted in the service. His son, Robert S., was a member of Company C, One
Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment Ohio National Guards. Our subject, on his
return from the war, lived in Logan County, Ohio, until 1876, when he purchased
and settled on 220 acres of land in Buck Township, Hardin County. He has since
been occupied in farming and stock-raising. He was married, January 15, 1867, to
Elsie J., a daughter of William and Martha Ritchey, and born in Logan County,
Ohio, February 11, 1844. Mr. and Mrs. Clark are the parents of five children,
viz.: William B., Alvan L., Walter H., James P. and Mary J. Mr. Clark and his
wife are connected with the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Clark is a member of a
Masonic order. In politics, he is a Republican, and for one year was Trustee of
Buck Township, and several years of Richland Township, Logan County.

Additional Comments:
Excerpt from

"The History of Hardin County, Ohio"
           containing
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES,
 SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY
   RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT
         MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY;
             HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS
                  MATTERS, ETC., ETC.

              CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO.
                          1883

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hardin/bios/clark327bs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/

File size: 4.0 Kb