Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Clark, S. Wesley 1872 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis



    HON. S. WESLEY CLARK was born December 28th, 1872, at Plattville, Grant

county, Wisconsin, of English ancestry. His father, Samuel P. Clark, was born in

the state of Vermont, and his mother Lizzie O. (Huntington) Clark was born at

Liverpool, England.



    The family moved to Dakota Territory, in July, 1882, and located in township

118, range 66, in Faulk county. There were only four other families in the

county at that time, their nearest neighbor being three miles distant. Mr.

Clark, Sr., stood among the most active and influential of Faulk county

pioneers. A post office was promptly established and he became the first

postmaster. A legal township organization was effected. Both the postoffice and

town ship were named after the subject of this sketch, (Wesley).



    In 1890 both Mr. and Mrs. Clark, Sr. on account of ill health, went to

California where they made their permanent home and where Mrs. Clark died in

1906, and the following year Mr. Clark, while east on a visit, died at Glenwood,

Wisconsin. They were both buried at San Jose, California.



    The subject of this sketch, then in his eighteenth year, was left in this

county to look after their property interests, and enjoy the school advantages

that had been built up in the new town of Wesley and subsequently finished his

education at the college, at Red field, where he has since made his home.



    In 1887 he was admitted to the bar as a practicing attory; in 1900 he was

elected states attorney of Spink county and served four years; in 1906, Mr.

Clark was elected attorney general of South Dakota and in 1908 he was reflected

to that office.





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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



ILLUSTRATED

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