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Born 1865
From The biographical record of Jasper County, Missouri (1901)
A. BENSON CLARK, M. D.
Dr. A. Benson Clark, a prominent physician of Jasper county, Missouri, was born in Pleasant City, Guernsey county, Ohio, February 9, 1865, a son of Williajii F. and Aley (Gregory) Claik. His grandfather, Benjamin Clark, was a native of Pennsylvania, and removed to Guernsey county in pioneer days. His son, William F. Clark, was born in Ohio, was a farmer by occupation and lived to the age of seventy years. He was formerly a Whig in politics, but later became a Republican. Fie was a member of the Masonic order, and was also a member and trustee of the old Bethel Methodist Episcopal church. In matters of dispute among his neighbors he was often called upon to arbitrate their differences, and he thus prevented many law-suits. He died on the 22(\ of December. 1893, and was buried in the old Bethel cemetery in Guernsey county, Ohio. The mother of our subject was a daughter of Noble
Gregory, a native of Ireland, who came to America when a young man. settling first in Pennsylvania, but later removed to Ohio to make his permanent home. A family of six daughters and two sons were born to the parents of our subject, the sons being Samuel G. and the Doctor.
A. Benson Clark was reared and educated in Ohio, attending the district schools until nineteen years of age, when he engaged in teaching, following that line for three years, the last eight months of which were spent in his home district where he had so long been a student. He later enjoyed superior educational advantages at New Concord College, at New Concord, Ohio, also in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and in Columbus Medical College, graduating in the last-named institution in 1890. The same year he located in Joplin, Missouri. In 1891 he removed to Zincite, Missouri, and in 1893 began practice at Carl Junction, in which he has been eminently successful. His preparation for medical college was gained under the instruction of Dr. John Milton Dunham, the well-known physician of Columbus, and his pupil has done him great credit.
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As printed in The biographical record of Jasper County, Missouri (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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