The full biographical sketch as printed, transcribed from the public-domain book. Spelling and wording are the original author’s; a few scanning errors may remain.
JAMES R. CLARK.
A great many Pennsylvanians have made their homes in Findlay, and among the number who claim the Keystone state as a birth place is Mr. James R. Clark, who has for so many years conducted an undertaking estab- lishment in Findlay.
Mr. Clark is of Irish parentage, his father, Forbes Clark, having been born in Ireland in 1758. He came to America in early life and settled in Pennsylvania, where he died in 1832, when the subject of this sketch was eight years old. He was a coppersmith by trade.
Our subject was bom in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1824, and after his father's death was reared by an aunt in Cumberland county of that state. His early life was spent on a farm, and his education was in the coun- try schools. At the age of eighteen he desired to learn a trade and went to Gettysburg, where he learned cabinet making. He remained there for three
years, perfecting his trade and from there went to I'hiladelphia, where he lived about a year. He afterward returned to Gettysburg for a short time, and in the fall of 1848 moved to Findlay, then a small village of about eight or nine hundred inhabitants. He found opporttmities at hand for carrying on his trade, and in about a year was able to open a cabinet shop of his own. In 1849 he added undertaking to his business on the site where he is now operating and has continued in that hne ever since. He has done well and made many friends while accumulating a competence for his late life.
Mr. Clark was united in marriage in 185 1 in Findlay to Mary Ann De- vine. To this couple have been born four children, as follows : Sarah A., who died in her sixth year; Charles M.; John F. and Walter S. Mrs. Clark died in July, 1898. Our subject is a member of the English Lutheran church of Findlay, and is connected fraternally with Hancock Lodge, No. 72, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he has been a member for over fifty years.
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Hancock County, Ohio. See the original pages at the Internet Archive.
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