THOMAS CLARKE - Biography

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This biography appears on page 637 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


THOMAS CLARKE, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Burlington. Thomas Clarke was born
in County Longford, Ireland, May 12, 1828; he came to Albany, in 1850,
where he was occupied in a stove foundry, taking charge of patterns,
etc. He remained there till 1861 ; then came to Burlington and bought
eighty acres of land in Sec. 21, with log cabins, barns, etc. , but only
partly improved. He afterward bought thirty-eight acres more land in
Sec. 22, and now owns 118 acres in all. He was never married; his sister
is keeping house for him.