BIOGRAPHIES:  Daniel E. CLARKE, Pepin, Pepin Co., WI

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Daniel E. Clarke, farmer, P. O. Pepin, was born at Russell, St.
Lawrence county, N. Y., September 29, 1818, a son of Philander and
Rachel (Bellows) Clarke, of English descent.  His father died when he
was about eight months old, and in 1826, his mother married Ezra Moore,
by whom she had one child.  Her death occurred about 1835.  Daniel E.
attended the district school until his mother's death, when he removed
to Snyder, Jefferson county, Pa., where he was married July 9, 1843, to
Miss Mahala A., daughter of James and Rachel (Oliver) Garrish, and born
April 4, 1823.  Their children are:  Mariea A. (Mrs. T. P. Hulsatt),
born March 20, 1845; Adeline C. (Mrs. H. E. Carter, Salt Lake City,
Utah, born July 10, 1847; Rachel A. (Mrs. A. Lampman), Florence, Minn.,
born March 24, 1849; John E., June 18, 1851; Philander A., of Sehome,
Whatcom county, Wash., born April 29, 1855; Willis A., born July 19,
1857, died April 11, 1869; Valeria I. (Mrs. C. O. Spencer), Downing,
Wis., born March 20, 1860; Viola A., born October 18, 1862, died April
25, 1863; Hosea E., born June 2, 1866.  Mr. Clarke worked in a saw-mill
and as a farmer and river pilot until 1854, when he came to Pepin and
preempted a farm on sections nine and ten, township twenty-three, range
fifteen, where he now has a well improved farm of 160 acres.  He is a
republican in politics.  For several years he was a member of the I. O.
O. F.

-Transcribed from the "Historical & Biographical Album of the Chippewa
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 727-728.


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