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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

FRED L. CLARK.

   After years of wandering and working in various places, pushing one
enterprise after another with characteristic energy and winning success from
many hard conditions through clearness of vision and resoluteness of purpose.
Fred L. Clark of near Inyankara, Crook county, Wyoming, at length halted his
weary feet in one of the most picturesque and desirable sections of his last
adopted state and is there engaged in a profitable and extensive business,
raising cattle in large numbers and of Superior grades. constantly enlarging his
herds and improving their quality. Mr. Clark's' life began on December 22, 1850,
in Lake county, Ohio, where his parents, Nathan and Margaret (Tinny) Clark,
passed the years of their maturity, the mother dying in 1866 and the father in
1899, up to which time he carried on a high-grade merchant tailoring
establishment, doing business in Cleveland, although residing at Willoughby, a
beautiful lake town about twenty-five miles distant. Here their son Fred
attended school and after finishing his education he clerked in stores, living
with his father until he was twenty-four years of age. In 1882 the love of
adventure, a spirit of independence and a thirst for larger opportunities and a
freer life attracted him to the far west, and he came to Hailey, Idaho, and
collecting there a fine herd of milch cows he opened a dairy business which he
conducted through the summer, taking his cattle to Boise City in the fall and
disposing of them at that place and turning his attention to the stock business,
handling blooded horses and cattle, later entering a general store as a clerk
until the summer of 1889, when he came overland to northern Wyoming and located
a homestead in Crook county fourteen miles south of Sundance, where he remained
engaged in stock-raising until the fall of 1899, when he sold the ranch and
bought the one on which he now lives, eighteen miles south of Sundance, at the
foot of Mt. Kara. Lying among the hills with a pleasing and advantageous
succession of upland and plain, it is well watered, produces large crops of hay
and grain and has an unusually fine body of grazing ground. The home place
contains 4S0 acres and Mr. Clark controls about 800 more, all of which are under
tribute to his extensive cattle business, which is one of the largest and most
renowned in that part of the state. In addition to its natural beauty and
interest, the section of country in which Mr. Clark's ranch is located has
historic associations and suggestions of value. What is known as Custer's trail
runs by the ranch, marking the route of the distinguished but unfortunate
general when in pursuit of the Indians. His name is cut in bold letters on the
bald rock far up the mountain side, and it is said that inscription was the
cutting of the general's own hand. April 18, 1889, witnessed the marriage of Mr.
Clark to Miss Ollie Thompson, who was born in Colchester, Ill., in 1870, the
ceremony being performed at Soda Springs, Idaho, and the bride was a daughter of
Michael S. and Nancy (Dunsworth) Thompson, members of pioneer families in the
great Prairie State, who settled in Idaho in 1884 and went to ranching near
Boise City, where Mr. Thompson now resides, his capable wife having passed into
the Eternal Silence in 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have had four children, Nathan
S., John V., Delia B., deceased, and Ethel L. Politically Mr. Clark affiliates
with the Republican party, but is more concerned for the advancement of the
community than party triumphs and he is held in high esteem throughout a large
scope of country.


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A people who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors, will
never achieve anything worthy to he remembered with pride by remote
generations.—.MACAULAY.

CHICAGO, ILL.
A. W. BOWEN & CO.
PUBLISHERS AND ENGRAVERS
1903


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