Biographies:  William Albert CLARK, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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William Albert Clark, for nine years principal of the Eau Claire County 
Training School, is another native son of Wisconsin, born in the town of 
Lucas, Dunn county, June 29, 1871.  His father, Charles Tompson Clark, who 
was descended from Pennsylvania Dutch stock, was born in Starkey, Yates 
county, New York, April 23, 1826.  He was a carpenter by trade and a soldier 
in the Civil War, having served in the 194th New York Infantry.  After the 
close of the war in 1865, he came to Wisconsin where he lived until his 
death, April 8, 1904.  He was married in 1855 to Amelia Lavinia Munsel, 
who was born in Watertown, New York, and was descended from the Puritans 
of New England, and on both maternal and paternal sides, the ancestors 
fought in the army of freedom - in the Revolutionary War.  She was the 
mother of six children, as follows:  Frank M., Charles A., Peleg B., Fred 
L., William A. and Edith A., now Mrs. Will Selover.  The mother died at 
Lucas, Dunn county, Wisconsin, March 1, 1910.

William Albert received his early schooling in a log schoolhouse, where he 
attended until sixteen years of age; he then had one term in the village 
high school at Knapp, Wisconsin, and later entered the River Falls Normal 
School, from which he graduated in 1897.  He earned money between times at 
teaching, with which he paid his tuition and eventually entered the 
University of Wisconsin at Madison, from which he was graduated in 1901.  
He specialized in philosophy and education and received from the University 
the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in Pedagogy.  He taught school two
 years in the county of Dunn and three years in the grades at Menomonie, 
and was for two years principal of the 10th Ward School, of Eau Claire, 
and for four years was supervising principal of the schools of Edgerton, 
Wisconsin, and for the past nine years has been principal of the Eau Claire 
county training school for teachers.  As the first principal of the last 
named institution, it devolved upon him to orgranize the school, plan a 
building for the same, and as he has from the start to this time (1914) 
been continuously connected with it, has had a great deal to do with its 
subsequent growth and development.

Mr. Clark served four years in Company H, 3rd Regiment Wisconsin National 
Guards, and attained to the rank of First Sergeant.  He has been president 
of the Rock county, Wisconsin Teachers' Association, and also president of 
the Northwestern Wisconsin Teachers' Association.  He is a member of Eau 
Claire Lodge, No. 112, A. F. and A. M., Eau Claire Chapter, No. 36, R. A. M., 
Michael Griffin Camp Sons of Veterans, Beaver's Reserve Fund Fraternity, 
National Fraternal League, Northwestern Wisconsin Teachers' Association, 
Wisconsin State Teachers' Association, the Y. M. C. A., the Eau Claire 
Order Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Association and the National 
Geographical Society.

On June 26, 1901, Mr. Clark married Miss Anna Parker, daughter of Ole and 
Thora (Risem) Parker, of Eau Claire.  Mrs. Clark was born and raised in Eau 
Claire, graduated from the high school in 1894, and for a number of years 
was a teacher in the public school of the city.  Mr. and Mrs. Clark are the 
parents of two children, viz: Warren Parker, born January 8, 1903, and 
Annabel Edith, born October 31, 1904.

In February, 1914, Mr. Clark resigned the principalship of the Eau Claire 
County Training School to accept the principalship of the Lincoln County 
Normal School, at Merrill, Wis., which position he still holds.


--Transcribed from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present", pages 675 & 676

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