BIOGRAPHIES:  Carlton B. CLARKE, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 19 November 2004
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Carlton B. Clarke, farmer, Pepin, was born in North Java, Wyoming
county, N. Y., October 6, 1847.  His paternal grandfather, Nathaniel
Clarke, was of English descent, and his father, Philo Clarke, was born
in Cattaraugus county, N. Y.  He married Abigal, a daughter of Oliver
Perry, who was a son of Commodore Perry.  Our subject grew up on a
farm, and received but little schooling, and when sixteen years old,
the family removed to Plainview, Minn., and he worked in the pineries
and on the river for about three yeas.  He then came to Pepin township
and engaged in farming.  Mr. and Mrs. Philo Clarke moved here in 1863,
and resided here until their deaths, which occurred in 1881 and 1883
respectively.  November 5, 1870, our subject married Mary J. McCain,
and they have two children, Harvey L. and Oscar Vern.  In 1878 Mr.
Clarke removed to Round Grove, Minn., but after two years there he
returned to Pepin and purchased his present farm.  In 1887 he received
a shock of lightning which has so injured his health as to unfit him
for farm labor, so the following season he engaged as fireman on the
"Phil Scheckel," which occupation he has followed each season since,
and which has greatly improved his health.  In politics he is
independent, and is a member of the Methodist church.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," page 755.


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