Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Clarke, Joseph January 16, 1841 - 
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JOSEPH CLARKE, of the firm of Lloyd & Clarke, was born in the city of 
Philadelphia Jan. 16, 1841. He began his career at La Crosse, in the house of 
Lloyd & Supplee, in the spring of 1862. In 1868, he married Miss Anna M. 
Custer, sister of Mrs. W. J. Lloyd. The house of Lloyd & Clarke has always 
been active in public matters, and especially enterprising in commercial 
affairs. The Board of Trade has received much valuable aid from the 
individuals of this firm, Mr. Clarke, having served two years as Vice 
President and two years as President of the Board. While none of the gentlemen 
connected with the firm have been active politicians, yet twice has the house 
been called on to fill the office of Mayor, Mr. W. J. Lloyd, one of the 
original members, being elected to the office (over Col. Theodore Rodolf) in 
the spring of 1865; Mr. Lloyd, at that time, was only in the 30th year of his 
age. Mr. Clarke, after twice refusing a party nomination for Mayor, was, in 
the spring of 1880, induced to accept a non-partisan call to be a candidate 
for the office, and was duly elected thereto. The principal events of Mr. 
Clarke's administration were the erection and equipping of the City Pumping 
Works, which he strongly favored, and the attempt to secure legislation 
authorizing a special water-pipe tax against all lots abutting on streets 
where water-pipes had been laid, or might be laid in the future. This project 
was favored by Mr. Clarke and a majority of the Common Council, but, being 
left to a vote of the people, was defeated. (See sketch of W. J. Supplee.)

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

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