Notes for David Shepherd CLARK

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Notes for David Shepherd CLARK

Mr. Clark was the postmaster of Kingston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. He was the second of nine children and was educated in the common schools, and at the age of eighteen began an apprenticeship at blacksmithing with Joseph
Kleetz, of West Pittston. On February 26, 1863 he enlisted in Company E, Second Pennsylvania Calvary. He participated in the following engagements, etc: Wilderness, Weldon Railroad raid, Malvern Hill, South Side Railroad, Stanley Creek, Richmond raid,
capture of Petersburg, Trevilian Station, Berks Station, with Sheridan in the Shenandoah, at the surrender of Lee, and in several minor
engagements, making a total of forty-two. He received three wounds while in the service- a saber wound at Malvern Hill; a gunshot wound at the Wilderness and a gunshot wound at the siege of Richmond. He was mustered out of the service as a
quartermaster-sergeant July 21, 1865. Once more returning to the tranquil pursuits of civil life, Mr. Clark resumed his trade at Pittston for a time, then he went to Scranton and learned
horse-shoeing. He then proceeded to Falls, Pennsylvania, and embarked in business for his own account, blacksmithing, remaining there about two years, when he went to Centre Moreland, where he sojourned about three years; was postmaster there one year,
and thence removed to Wilkes-Barre, where he followed his trade about a year. He then came to Kingston, and was foreman there about two years in the shops of C. W. Boughtin; thence he went to Plymouth, where he was again engaged in business for
himself, and where he remained about two years. he then moved to Wyoming County, and was in the huckstering business there one year, when he removed to Laceville [sic], Pennsylvania and entered into partnership in the blacksmith trade with G. W.
Walters;
remained one year, and then removed to Kingston, re-engaging as foreman with Mr. Boughtin, where he
remained for eight years more. His next move was to Wilkes-Barre, where he once more engaged in business for his own account, blacksmithing, remaining about two years, when, on account of failing health, he was obliged to abandon his trade. For a time
he traveled with a patent wagon jack of his own invention, and on April 16, 1890 he was commissioned postmaster of Kingston, which incumbency he is at present filing (1893). Mr. Clark and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; he is
a member of the G.A.R., the I.O.O.F. and Encampment, and in politics he is a Republican. (History of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, H. C. Bradsby, editor, S> B. Nelson & Co., publishers, 1893, p. 784.).
See this family Kingston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in 1900.
May have died 24 September 1919.

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