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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Portrait and
Biographical History of
Fayette, Pickaway and Madison Counties, Ohio
Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros.
1892
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C. A. CLARK, a druggist of
Mt. Sterling, has been engaged in this business for several years.
He is considered one of the enterprising and progressive business men of
the place and a valued citizen. He was born in Mt. Sterling, Jan.
6, 1858, and is a son of Alex and Lydia (Adkins) Clark, both of
whom were natives of Virginia. Their marriage, however, was
celebrated in this State. The father is a blacksmith and resides
in Madison Mills, Fayette County. The family numbered thirteen
children, eleven of whom grew to mature years, but Mrs. J. S. Smith
died at the age of thirty-seven years, leaving four children.
William is an attorney of Mt. Sterling; J. M. is engaged in
the grocery trade in Mt. Sterling; J. N. is a physician of
Madison Mills; J. S. is a blacksmith of Buena Vista, Fayette
County; Mrs. Emma Crawford makes her home in Columbus, Ohio;
Mrs. John Adams is living in Greenfield, Ohio, where her husband is
engaged as a grain dealer; Mrs. W. M. Fulton is living on a farm
in Range Township, Madison County; Mrs. Charles Snyder makes her
home on a farm in Highland County, and Mildred is still with her
parents.
When our subject was about two years old, his parents
moved to Madison Mills, where he grew to manhood. In his boyhood,
he aided his father in the blacksmith shop and attended school.
Between the ages of thirteen and twenty years, he worked by the month
upon a farm, and on attaining his majority found himself with a couple
of horses, which he sold. He then began the study of medicine with
his brother, in whose office he remained for two years, when he came to
Mt. Sterling and was employed as a salesman for Dr. McClintock,
with whom he remained for five years.
On the 1st of June, 1887, Mr. Clark was united
in marriage with Miss Willie E. Larey, of Mt. Sterling, daughter
of John and Julia Larey, and a native of Pickaway County, Ohio.
Their union has been blessed with one child, a daughter, Cleo Belle,
born May 18, 1888.
Having passed the examination for a pharmacist's
certificate about a year after his marriage, Mr. Clark bought a
half interest in the drug store of Dr. McClintock. Two
years later, he bought out the drug store of P. H. Mandabach, and
still continued to hold the half interest in the other store. A
year later, he bought out Dr. McClintock and combined the two
stocks in 1890. Mr. Clark has a full and complete stock of
drugs and has a well-appointed store. He is doing a good business
and well deserves his liberal patronage. In politics, he is a
Democrat and cast his first Presidential vote for W. S. Hancock.
Socially, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Masonic
fraternity and the Odd Fellows' society. Himself and wife hold
membership with the Methodist Church and are prominent people of Mt.
Sterling.
Source:
Portrait and
Biographical History of
Fayette, Pickaway and Madison Counties, Ohio. Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 208 |
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JAMES M. CLARK,
who is engaged in the grocery business in Mt. Sterling,
was born in the city which is still his home Apr. 10, 1854. He is
a son of Alex and Lydia (Atkins) Clark, both of whom were natives
of Orange County, Va. They became acquainted in their native
State, but were not married until after their removal to Ohio.
They now reside in Madison County. C. A. and William
Clark two brothers of our subject, are represented elsewhere in this
work.
Mr. Clark remained in his native town
until five years of age, and was then in Madison Mills, Fayette County,
until ten years of age. His next place of residence was in
Palestine, Pickaway County, where he spent four years. He then
returned to Madison Mills, where he resided until twenty years of age.
As a boy, he worked in his father's shop and on a farm, and was allowed
to use his wages for himself. He operated a blacksmith shop of his
own until twenty-five years of age, a part of that time being spent in
Mt. Sterling.
Mr. Clark was married on Christmas Day of
1877 to Miss Ida May Mitchell, of Mt.
Sterling, who was born in Williamsport, Pickaway County, Two children
have been born of their union: Dennie A., who was born in Five
Points, Pickaway County, Jan. 16, 1879; and Benjamin Franklin,
born in this place, Apr. 23, 1883.
Before his marriage, when Mr. Clark was
about nineteen years of age, he took a trip through Michigan. In
company with another boy, he left home, not asking permission, and went
to Washington C. H., where he took a train for Springfield, Ohio, and
thence went to Urbana. As their money was then exhausted, they
walked to Careyville, where they got work in a blacksmith shop.
Two weeks later, they took the train for Sandusky and went to Detroit.
Their money being again exhausted, they made their way to a little town,
where they worked for a short time and then went to Bay City.
Mr. Clark then shipped as a deck hand on a steam propeller
bound for Chicago, a distance of five hundred miles, and returned in the
same way to Bay City. A month was thus passed. During this
time, he had all his clothing stolen except that which he wore. In
the winter of 1873, he went to the lumber woods of Michigan and, after
working for about six weeks, drew his money and returned home.
In 1881, Mr. Clark embarked in the grocery
business, which he continued for three years and then sold out in 1881.
For a year, he then again gave his attention to blacksmithing, and in
1885 began clerking in a grocery store, where he was employed three
years. Once more he embarked in business for himself in that line,
and for the past seven years has been a leading grocer of Mt. Sterling.
By fair and honest dealing and courteous treatment, he has built up a
good trade, and now has a liberal patronage. Socially, he is a
member of the Odd Fellows' Society and, in politics, was originally a
Democrat, but is now a Prohibitionist. He is a member of the
Methodist Church, to which Mrs. Clark also belongs and is
a teacher in the Sunday-school.
Source:
Portrait and
Biographical History of
Fayette, Pickaway and Madison Counties, Ohio. Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 622 |
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