Lacrosse-Milwaukee-Washington County WI Archives Biographies.....Clark, Anson 1822 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Roxanne Munns rmunns@uwalumni.com April 15, 2007, 11:17 pm Author: Unknown REV. ANSON CLARK, Pastor of the Congregational Church, West Salem; born in West Hampton, Hampshire, Co., Mass., in 1822. He was educated at Williams College, where he graduated in 1845. He took a theological course at Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1848. He came to Wisconsin in the fall of that year, and preached in the vicinity of Milwaukee, Wis., for seven years. For the next eleven and a half years, in Washington Co. He came to West Salem in 1867; he was married in 1852, in Connecticut, to Mary L. Hooker, born in Fairfield Co., daughter of Edward W. Hooker. Her father died at Fort Atkinson, in 1878. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have four children. The eldest, Edward H., graduated at Williams College, in 1878, now engaged in teaching; their second son, Cornelius E., graduated at the same college, in 1879; Calvin M. is now a student at that institution; Anson H., their youngest son, is at home. They have lost three children. Additional Comments: From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 820. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/lacrosse/bios/clark460gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb