From Memorial and Genealogical Record of Dodge and Jefferson Counties, Wisconsin, publ. 
1894 - Page 79-80
 
JAMES CLARK.  He whose name heads this sketch is a native of the State of New York, and was 
born in Allegheny County, October 25, 1821, a son of Joseph CLARK, and grandson of Joseph 
CLARK, Sr., the latter being a native of New England.  Joseph CLARK, Jr., was a soldier of the 
War of 1812, and was united in marriage with Patty DAVIS, a native of York State.  He followed 
the occupation of a carpenter and joiner and that of a farmer also after his removal to Allegheny 
County.  In 1842 he came to  Wisconsin and settled in the town of Fond du Lac, where he worked 
at his trade for several years and spent the last years of his life there, dying in May, 1846, his wife 
having died when the subject of this sketch was a small lad.  He was married a second time in 
New York.  James CLARK was the third of four sons and three daughters born to their parents, 
and in his native county attained manhood and received a common education of a practical kind.  
When about twenty years of age he came to Wisconsin with a brother and located in Fond du Lac 
County.  His father entered eighty acres of land here, and this he and his brother cleared, broke 
and farmed for some time.  After the death of his father he continued to reside on the home farm 
until 1849, then came to Dodge County and bought land to the amount of forty acres, and during 
the two or three years that he resided on this tract, he made many valuable improvements. This 
he later exchanged for an eighty-acre tract of land in Byron Township, Fond du Lac County, and 
on that farm made his home until 1867, when he returned to Dodge County and bought ninety 
acres of land in Burnett Township.  Six years later he sold this and bought a place on Beaver 
Dam and Horicon road, west of Burnett Junction, selling this farm also at the end of three years.  
After tilling a farm of ninety-five acres about one mile from the Junction for about fifteen years, he, 
in February, 1891, bought residence property in Juneau, and is living in retirement.  He was 
married in Dodge County in October, 1849, to Miss Sarah J. INGLEY, a native of New York, who 
came to Wisconsin with her father, Uriah INGLEY, a pioneer of this county, who died here.  Four 
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. CLARK: Emma Jean, wife of George DITER, a conductor on 
the North-Western Railroad, and a resident of Milwaukee; Marion, who died at the age of two 
years; Marion Uriah, who is a conductor on the North-Western Railroad, and resides at 
Barrington, Ill.., and Matie, a young lady at home.  Mr. CLARK has always supported the 
Republican party since its organization, but was formerly a Whig.  He has held a few minor official 
positions, is a public-spirited citizen, and during the fifty-two years that he has resided in 
Wisconsin, he has done a great deal to make it one of the richest commonwealths in the Union.  
He has many warm personal friends, and is deserving of them, for his career has been upright in 
every worthy particular.
 
Submitted by Carol