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Captain C. W. Clark
CAPTAIN C. W. CLARK, farmer, P. O. Tionesta, was born in County Tyrone,
Ireland, February 2, 1827, and is a son of James and Mary (Canan) Clark. He
was reared in his native country, where he received a limited education, and
came to America in 1852, locating in Schuylkill county, Penn., where he
followed the occupation of a coal miner, until the breaking out of the war. He
then joined the service as second sergeant of Company B, Sixth Pennsylvania
Volunteers, for the three months service, and was discharged at the expiration
of his term. He then re-enlisted as a private in Company C, Forty-eighth
Pennsylvania Volunteers; was wounded at the battles of South Mountain,
Antietam, and the Wilderness in 1864, and at Poplar Grove Church. He was
promoted to second sergeant, then to orderly sergeant, second lieutenant and
first lieutenant, and was mustered out as captain of his company after serving
four years and four months. During the war he knocked in the heads of 325 kegs
of powder at Petersburg, Va., for the purpose of filling magazines in the mine
to blow up the rebel fort at that place. In 1865 Capt. Clark located in Oil
City, Penn., and in 1886 settled in Tionesta township, on the farm he now
occupies, most of which he cleared and improved, and where he has since
resided. He married, in 1849, Margaret, daughter of William and Mary (Neely)
Livingston, of the County Tyrone, Ireland, and they have seven children
living: Mary (Mrs. William Thomson), William, James, Margaret (Mrs. James
Elliott), Charles, Joseph and Mable. Capt. Clark has seventeen grandchildren
living. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, of the I. O. O. F. and the
G. A. R. Politically he is a Republican, and has held the offices of auditor
and sheriff of Forest county.Source: Page(s) 925, Chapter 15 Biographical Sketches – Tionesta Township and
Borough of Tionesta
Hickory and Harmony Townships
History of Counties of McKean, Elk and Forest, Pennsylvania.
Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1890.
Transcribed November 2005 by Nathan Zipfel for the Forest County Genealogy
Project
Published 2005 by the Forest County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project
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