CLARK K. NORTON - Biography

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This biography appears on page 647 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.



CLARK K. NORTON, farmer; P. O. Burlington; born in Rutland Co., Vt.,
Jan. 12, 1818; moved to Erie Co., N. Y., when 11 years old, with his
parents; his father located there, and, in 1836, he went to Chicago,
remained one year, and returned to Buffalo, N. Y., where he went to
school in the winter of 1838-39; on April 11, 1839, came to Burlington,
located and bought fifty acres of land from Samuel Lane. He built the
residence he lived in, with barns, fences, etc.; he also owned three
building lots in the village of Burlington, which he afterward sold. He
married, in Burlington, Jan. 22, 1850, Mary E. Everett, and has two
children- Fred P. and Lizzie M. They all attend the Baptist Church.