Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Clark, Sylvester 
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SYLVESTER CLARK, foreman in the La Crosse Elevator of the Chicago, Milwaukee & 
St. Paul Railroad Co.; has been in his present position since 1872, and a 
resident of La Crosse since the fall of 1865. He is a native of Caledonia, 
Livingston Co., N. Y., where his father, Charles Clark, is still living at 80 
years of age. Mr. Clark enlisted in 1862, in the 4th New York Heavy Artillery, 
and was in the service three years. He was taken prisoner Aug. 24, 1864, near 
Petersburg, Va.; was at Belle Isle, Pemberton, Libby, and Salisbury, N. C.; 
was released from the last-named place on the 22d of February, 1865. After he 
left the army, he returned to Caledonia, N. Y., and came from there to La 
Crosse in the fall of 1865. He married in March, 1875, in St. Louis, Mo., to 
Miss Anna Simon, of that place, and has one child - Edna.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 746.

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