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ize the command which became known as the Sixth Missouri Volunteer Regiment of In- fantry. This he did at once, and was com- missioned lieutenant colonel of the regiment, filling that position during practically all of its service in the war. The command formed a part of General Fitzhugh Lee's Army Corps, and was the only Missouri regi- ment which reached Cuba. During this service of about a year he displayed rare mili- tary ability ; and in recognition of his services and his skill as an organizer and commander, in February, 1899, Governor Stephens ap- pointed him brigadier general of the Missouri National Guard, thus placing him in com- mand of the entire military organization of the State. Since that time he has effected a complete reorganization of the National Guard, placing it on a firmer and more sat- isfactory basis than has ever before obtained. He is probably the youngest man ever as- signed to the highest position of command of the military establishment of any State in the Union. General Clark was married June 30, 1897, to Harriet De Armond, daugh- ter of Judge David A. De Armond, of But- ler, now (1900) Representative in Congress from the Sixth District.
Clark, John B., Jr., lawyer, soldier and member of Congress, was born in Fay- ette, Missouri, January 14, 1831. He was educated at the common schools and the State University. He studied law under his father, John B. Clark, Sr., and graduated at the law department of. Harvard University. In 1861 he espoused the Southern cause in the Civil War, entered the Confederate service as lieutenant, and served through the war, rising by successive promotions to brig- adier general. At the close of the struggle he returned to Fayette, and was elected col- lector of Howard County. In 1872 he was elected to the Forty-third Congress from the Eleventh Missouri District, as a Democrat, and re-elected four times in succession, serv- ing in all ten years.
Clark, S. H. H., railroad president and manager, was born October 17, 1836, on a farm near Morristown, New Jersey, and died at Asheville, North Carolina, June 1, 1900. In his early boyhood he found it necessary to contribute his share to the support of his father's family. While working at whatever
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he could find to do, he managed to obtain a fairly good education by studying diligently at night and spending the most of his leisure time reading such books as were accessible to him. He began "railroading" as a boy in a humble capacity, but was apt, faithful and efficient, and in the course of a few years reached, through successive promotions, the position of passenger conductor on one of the railroads running between New York and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was while serv- ing in this capacity that he attracted the attention of the distinguished railroad man- ager and financier, Sidney Dillon. Dillon was an admirable judge of men, and was always quick to discover the capacity for usefulness of those in his employ. He discovered such capacity in Mr. Clark, and took him from the passenger train which he was running to make him general manager of the Flushing Railroad, on Long Island. This brought him into an intimate relationship with Mr. Dillon and his New York associates, and the ability which he displayed as a railroad manager marked him for promotion and operation in a larger and broader field. When the Dillon syndicate obtained a controlling interest in the Union Pacific Railway system Mr. Clark was sent west to take the position of general freight agent on that line. In this new field his splendid capabilities were soon made man- ifest, and after a time he became second vice president and general manager of the Union Pacific system. While acting in this capacity he was brought into close contact with the eminent financier, Jay Gould, and a warm friendship sprang up between the two men. In 1886 Mr. Gould persuaded him to accept the vice presidency and general management of the Gould Southwestern Railway system, and he was given full control of the manage- ment of lines aggregating seven thousand miles of trackage and earning thirty millions of dollars per annum. For years after this, in fact, until Mr. Gould's death, he was one of that gentleman's closest and most confiden- tial friends, and was the recognized repre- sentative of his interests in the west. After Gould got control of the Union Pacific the second time Mr. Clark became vice president and general manager of that system, as well as of the Southwestern system, and continued to hold that position until 1893, when failing health compelled him to relieve himself of a portion of his responsibilities. As a result
he severed his connection with the Missouri Pacific and was elected president of the Union Pacific Railroad. Afterward, when the Union Pacific Company went into the hands of receivers, Mr. Clark was made chairman of the receivers' board, and was practically the manager of the property up to the time that its affairs were reorganized, in 1897. He was conspicuously active in perfecting the plan of reorganization, under which the road relieved itself from the government claims against it and entered upon a new era of development. As a natural consequence of his close connection with this reorganization, and of the ability which he had displayed as a railroad manager and executive officer, he was the first choice of those most largely interested in this great railway property for the presidency of the reorganized Union Pacific Company, but failing health com- pelled him to decline the position, and toward the close of the year 1898 he retired from active participation in railway management. At the time of his retirement to private life he had been for nearly thirty years a con- spicuous figure in the Western railway world, and among his contemporaries none had shown broader capacity or contributed more to modern railway development. Mr. Clark married Miss Annie M. Drake, of New York, and one son was born to them, S. Hoxie Clark, now a member of the St. Louis bar
Clark, William, Governor of Missouri Territory, was born in' Virginia, August 1, 1770, and died in St. Louis, September 1, 1838. He belonged to an old Virginia family that did much for the West at a critical period in its history. His parents were John Clark and Anne Rogers, who were married in King and Queen County, Virginia, in 1749. They had four daughters and six sons. Wil- liam Clark married Julia Hancock at Fin- castle, Virginia, January 5, 1808. Their chil- dren were:
I. Meriwether Lewis.
2. William Preston.
3. Mary Margaret.
4. George Rogers Hancock.
5. John Julius.
Julia Hancock, first wife of William Clark, died at the family estate of Fotheringay, Vir- ginia, June 27, 1820.
Subsequently William Clark married a
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widow with three children, Mrs. Harriet Ken- nerly Radford. By this second marriage they had two sons :
I. Jefferson Kearny.
2. Edmund.
Of the above, three of William Clark's sons were married.
Meriwether Lewis Clark married Abigail Churchill. Their children were, William Hancock, who married Camilla Gaylord; Samuel Churchill, Mary Eliza, Meriwether Lewis, who married Mary Martin Anderson (their children being John Henry Churchill, Caroline Anderson and Mary Barbaroux) ; John O'Fallon, George Rogers and Charles Jefferson, who married Lena Jacob (their children being Mary Susan, Evelyn Kennerly and Marguerite Vernon).
The second wife of Meriwether Lewis Clark was Julia Davidson.
The next son of William Clark, who mar- ried and left descendants, was George Rogers Hancock Clark, who married Eleanor A. Glasgow. Their children were, Julia, who married Robert Stevenson Voorhis (their child being Eleanor Glasgow); Sarah Leon- ida, John O'Fallon, who married Beatrice Chouteau (their children being Henry Chou- teau, Beatrice Chouteau, Carlotta, William Glasgow, Clemence Eleanor, John O'Fallon, Harriet Kennerly and George Rogers); and Ellen Glasgow, who married Willis Edward Lauderdale (their children being Seddie Clark and Walter Clark).
The third son of William Clark that mar- ried was Jefferson Kearny Clark, who married Mary Susan Glasgow, the only sister of Eleanor A. Glasgow, they being daughters of William Glasgow, of Delaware, and Sarah Mitchell, of Fincastle, Virginia.
The Clark family has been illustrious in three States-Virginia, Kentucky and Mis- souri-and its connection with the history of each is honorable and patriotic. Of the six brothers born in Virginia four bore a prom- inent part in the Revolution, and when, in the year 1784, the family came to the West, and settled at the falls of the Ohio River on the site of the present city of Louisville, their patriotic name had preceded them and pre- pared the way for eminence and usefulness among the large number of Virginians; emi- nent because of their struggles and sacrifices during the Revolution, who sought the glow- ing West as a field in which to begin life anew
and with whom Revolutionary service was a sufficient claim on their confidence and sup- port. One of the brothers was General George Rogers Clark, whose daring and diffi- cult expedition for the capture of the posts of Kaskaskia, Cahokia and Vincennes forced the British to abandon the Ohio and Missis- sippi Valleys and retire to the northern lakes, and thus secured the West to the United States at a time when neglect and inaction might have made a long and bloody struggle necessary. The subject of this sketch was the youngest of the brothers. He was only four- teen years of age when the family came from Virginia to the fort which his enterprising elder brother, George Rogers Clark, had built at the falls of the Ohio; and it was in the dangers, alarms, expeditions and combats connected with this fort that William Clark received the rugged experience that prepared him for his future historic, military and bril- liant career. Life in the West at that time demanded unflinching and daring personal courage, vigilance, prudence and a thorough knowledge of Indian character and habits- and these qualities young Clark already pos- sessed in no small degree, when, in 1788, at the age of eighteen years, he was appointed ensign in the United States Army. Four years later, in 1792, he was made lieutenant of infantry, and next promoted to adjutant and quartermaster. In 1796 failing health com- pelled him to resign his position in the army, and he shortly afterward came to St. Louis, at that time in foreign territory, but recog- nized by the emigrants from Kentucky and Virginia already moving into the trans-Mis- sissippi region as destined, at no distant day, to become part of the United States. Presi- dent Jefferson was familiar with the patriotic record and the high qualities of the Clark family, and when, in 1803, the President planned the expedition to the mouth of the Columbia River, he selected William Clark, at that time thirty-three years of age, and in the full vigor of his powers, as the companion of Meriwether Lewis in the conduct of the enterprise. The. expedition, composed of Lewis, Clark, nine young men from Ken- tucky, fourteen regular soldiers, two Cana- dian voyageurs and a colored servant, started in the spring of 1804, made the journey to the Pacific in November, 1805, and returned, ar- riving in St. Louis September 23, 1806. This famous expedition accomplished all that
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President Jefferson expected and much more. It not only gave a great deal of valuable and interesting information about a region before almost unknown, but it made an assertion of United States authority over the great North- west which forced the Hudson Bay Company, at that time encroaching upon it under Brit- ish claims, to withdraw and concede the un- disputed possession of it to our government. When William Clark, appointed lieutenant of artillery, began his preparations in company with Lewis for the enterprise in 1803, St. Louis was a foreign village, but before the party started, in 1804, the cession treaty had been made and the young officers had the satisfaction of making the journey on the soil of their own country. The return of the ex- pedition, in the fall of 1806, after an absence of two years and a half, was an interesting event in the history of St. Louis, and of national value also, and the record of it is to this day one of the most charming books of travel in existence. In 1807 Clark resigned from the army and was appointed brigadier general for the Territory of Upper Louisiana, and in 1813 was appointed Governor of Mis- souri Territory by President Madison, hold- ing the office until the State of Missouri was organized, in 1821. In 1822 he was appointed superintendent of Indian affairs in St. Louis, and held the office until his death. Governor Clark was a citizen of St. Louis for forty-one years, and his residence on the corner of Main and Vine Streets was a center of hos- pitality known far and wide-North, South, East, and especially throughout the West- to army officers, travelers, authors and dis- tinguished visitors. He expended a large amount of time and effort in the foundation of an Indian museum, the first collection of Indian weapons and curiosities in the coun- try, and for a long time it was one of the sights in St. Louis which visitors were accus- tomed to examine. The friendship that existed between Clark and Meriwether Lewis, companions in the famous expedition ever since known by their joint names, was of a chivalrous and romantic character. They were high-bred, accomplished young men, of noble and gentle natures, firm and fearless in the presence of danger and sincere and faithful in their affections. At the be- ginning of the century their successful exploration marked a brilliant event in history.
In February, 1806, President Jefferson ad- dressed to Congress a communication re- garding the discoveries made by Lewis and Clark. This was read in Washington, and afterward the President's message was re- printed in New York and in London.
Many editions have been published of the Lewis and Clark expedition, in America and in England; there appeared an Irish edition in Dublin in 1817, and translations have been made into French, Dutch and German, show- ing the continued public interest, both na- tional and foreign. Toward the close of the century its vital importance has been empha- sized anew in the literary tribute of Dr. Elliott Coues' splendid volumes of "The Lewis and Clark Expedition." This complete and schol- arly work was published in 1893 by Francis P. Harper, of New York. It contains a map of North America from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, made from the original draw- ing of William Clark, which shows his re- markable power as a draughtsman at that early day.
Dr. Coues writes : "William received his first title or distinction of any sort while yet a mere lad, being made a member of the So- ciety of the Cincinnati on March 1, 1787, before he had completed his seventeenth year. His original certificate of membership is extant; it bears the signatures of George Washington, President, and General Henry Knox, Secretary."
To quote again, Dr. Coues says : "General and Governor Clark was known far and wide to the Indians. Probably no officer of the government ever made his personal influence more widely and deeply felt; his superintendency grew to be a sort of lawful autocracy, wielded in the best interests of all concerned, on the strong principle of even- handed justice ; his word became Indian law, from the Mississippi to the Pacific. . .. This man was a large factor in the civilization of that great West which Lewis and Clark dis- covered. It may be said of him, with special pertinence, stat magni nominis umbra-for the explorer stands in the shadow of his own great name as such, obscuring that of the sol- dier, statesman, diplomat and patriot."
Clark, William Henry, deputy sher- iff of Jackson County, was born August 28, 1857, near Blue Springs, Jackson County, Missouri. His father, David M. Clark, was
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born in Virginia in 1822 and is now a resi- dent of Kansas City, Missouri. He came to this State with his parents and the greater portion of his life was spent on the farm near Blue Springs, a fine tract of land owned by him. He has always been in sympathy with the principles of the Democratic party, but has never sought public office. David Clark served four years under General Price, in the Confederate Army. The mother of the subject of this sketch was Mary E. Har- ris, daughter of Samuel Harris, one of the earliest settlers of Jackson County, Missouri. She was born in that county, and is living a life of contentment and deserved happiness. David M. Clark and wife are the parents of eleven children, of whom ten are living. William H. is the third son. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Jackson County, limited as they were when compared with the splendid educational advantages of to- day, and made the best of his opportunities. At an early age he accepted his full share of the farm work and gave evidence of indus- try. He made his home with his father until he was twenty-seven years of age. In 1883 he removed to Independence, Missouri, and engaged in the hardware business, which he followed from that year until 1897. He was connected with the Russell Hardware Com- pany for ten years, and as a business man showed himself possessed of keen judgment and commercial ability, coupled with strict integrity and an adherence to the principles of right and honor. In January, 1897, he was appointed by Sheriff Robert Stone, of Jackson County, to the position of deputy sheriff, having charge of the outside work for the eastern part of the county. He has always affiliated with the Democratic party, and as a representative of that party served the constituency of the Third Ward of Inde- pendence as member of the city council dur- ing the year 1896-7. Mr. Clark is a member of the Christian Church. He is identified with McDonald Lodge No. 324, A. F. and A. M., and is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of Amer- ica. He was married October 30, 1889, to Miss Nannie J. Oldham, daughter of John R. Oldham, one of the pioneer residents of Jackson County. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have two children: Mattie Oldham Clark, aged five, and John R., aged three. The head of this family, devoted to his home and church,
exerts a strong influence in the community and enjoys the high esteem of his neighbors and those who are brought into daily contact with him.
Clark County .- A county in the ex- trene northeastern part of the State, bounded on the north by the State of Iowa; northeast by the Des Moines River, which divides it from Iowa; east by the Mississippi River, which separates it from the State of Illinois; south by Lewis County, and west by Knox and Scotland Counties; area, 325,238 acres. The surface of the county is about two-thirds prairie. Along the. larger streams and back
from the river bottoms, the land is broken and hilly. About 11,000 acres of rich bottom land lies between the Des Moines and Fox Rivers, and this land is protected fromn over- flow by an expensive system of levees. An- other rich tract of bottom land is south of the Fox River. The county is drained by the Des Moines, Little Fox, Sinking Creek, Wyaconda, Little Wyaconda, Honey and many smaller streams which flow directly or indirectly into the Mississippi River. The soil of the bottom lands is of great fertility, and year after year produces enormous crops. The soil of the uplands is a friable loam, with a stiff clay subsoil, in places streaked with gravel and sand. About 68 per cent of the land is under cultivation and in pasture. Ten per cent of the area of the county is still in timber, consisting of fine growths of oak on the uplands, while along the streams are oak, black walnut, butternut, hickory, sycamore, ash, maple, elm and honey locust. The grasses grown are bluegrass, clover and timothy. The average yield to the acre is: Corn, 32 bushels; wheat, 16 bushels; oats, 25 bushels ; potatoes, 90 bushels ; clover hay, two tons, and timothy hay, 11/2 tons. All the vegetables are produced abundantly. Fruits of all kinds that can be grown in a moderate climate bear well. In the northern part of the county are considerable deposits of bituminous coal. There is plenty of lime- stone suitable for building purposes. The most profitable industries of the residents of the county are agriculture and stock-raising. According to the report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. the exports of surplus prod- ucts from the county in 1898 were: Cattle, 4.252 head; hogs, 35,715 head; sheep, 1.319
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head ; horses and mules, 1,694 head; wheat, 17,732 bushels; oats, 129,996 bushels; corn, 468,186 bushels; hay, 394,000 pounds; flour, 1,621,000 pounds; timothy seed, 111,000 pounds ; lumber, 1,854,000 feet ; walnut logs, 84,000 feet ; piling and posts, 18,000 feet ; cross ties, 1,135; cord wood, 1,248 cords ; cooperage, 496 cars; stone, 18 cars; wool, 8,155 pounds ; potatoes, 1,202 bushels; mel- ons, 12,000; poultry, 733,304 pounds ; eggs, 308,070 dozen ; butter, 31,361 pounds; game and fish, 53,973 pounds; hides and pelts, 30,451 pounds ; vegetables, 888,694 pounds; molasses, 1,993 gallons; whisky and wine, 1,220 gallons ; vinegar, 60,000 gallons ; canned goods, 168,030 pounds; furs, 1,430 pounds; feathers, 5,995 pounds. Other articles ex- ported are brick, tobacco, cheese, dressed meats, tallow, strawberries, fresh fruit, honey, beeswax, nuts and nursery stock. Accord- ing to the most authentic record obtainable, the first settlement in the territory now Clark County was made in September, 1829, when Sackett and Jacob Weaver, who came from Kentucky, settled upon land on the Des Moines River, near the present site of St. Francisville. A year later William Clark built a log cabin near the present site of the town of Athens. Soon after a number of Kentuckians settled in the same neighbor- hood. Among them were Samuel Bartlett, Jeremiah Wayland and George Heywood. Wayland moved to where St. Francisville is now situated and there built a log cabin, which, in 1832, was swept away by a flood. In 1831 Giles Sullivan settled in the county about two miles above St. Francisville, and a few months later his wife died-the first death in the new settlement. The winters of 1830-I, so it is related in the traditions of the old settlers, were of great severity, and the snow was of such depth that travel was almost impossible, and Indians who occupied the bottoms along the Des Moines River lost nearly all their horses. In 1831-2, among the people who settled in the county were Richard Riley and Dabney Phillips, of Kentucky; Colonel Rutherford, of Tennes- see ; J. Weaver, who, in 1832, built the first mill on Fox Creek, near the present site of Waterloo, and which afterward became known as Moore's Mill. William D. Hen- shaw, of Virginia, and Messrs. Butts, Rebo and Ripper, who came from Kentucky. The first children born in the Clark County terri-
tory were George Wayland, Elizabeth Bart- lett and Martha Heywood. For some time the nearest mill was at Palmyra, some sixty miles distant, and there was no store much nearer until 1833, when John Stake opened one at St. Francisville. Owing to the Black Hawk War, there was no heavy immigration to the county until 1834, when numerous families from Kentucky joined the settle- ments about St. Francisville. All the earliest settlers lived on the most friendly terms with the Indians, particularly with Chief Keokuk's band, against whom the only grievance was that their dogs killed the hogs of the set- tlers. A complaint about this resulted in a pow-wow, at which the Indians were feasted, and the "talks" were of such a nature that soon few Indian dogs were seen running about without a muzzle of lind tree bark. During the Black Hawk War a fort, called Fort Pike, was erected at the present site of St. Francisville, and was occupied for about three months by a company from Pike County. After the defeat of Black Hawk, it is a tradition in Clark County that his squaw and papooses were guests at the house of Jeremiah Wayland, where they helped hoe corn and dig potatoes. The first marriage in the territory now Clark County was per- formed by, as it was afterward learned, a "bogus" minister. The contracting couple were William Clark, who came from Illinois, and Elizabeth Payne, a young widow, and the first ceremony took place at the house of Jeremiah Wayland. When it was discov- ered that the minister was a counterfeit, Squire Robert Sinclair, who lived at Tully, was sent for, and the matrimonial knot was legally tied, and the event was duly cele- brated. The first brick house in the county was built in 1837, at Waterloo, by Pleasant Moore. The Baptists were the first to organ- ize a religious society, their organization dating from May 7, 1835, and soon afterward they built the first church, on the trail leading to the Fox River ford. In 1818 the Terri- torial Legislature organized a county which was called Clark, in honor of Governor Wil- liam Clark, and it included the territory that is now embraced in half a dozen counties in the northeastern part of the State. Owing to the lack of population, the county govern- ment became disorganized, in fact it never was thoroughly organized, nor did it have representation in the Legislature. December
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