Notes for Edward Wilbur CLARK

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Notes for Edward Wilbur CLARK

Mr. Clark was reared on the Clark homestead in Plains, and educated at the common schools, the Wyoming Seminary, and new Columbus, and at the age of twenty engaged with Joseph Klotz, of West Pittston, to learn the blacksmith trade. He
remained with him eighteen months, and then worked at his trade as follows: With Jonah Howell, Main Street, East Pittston, one year; with his brother D.S. Clark, at North Moreland, Pennsylvania, three months; at Pittston, in the employ of Alvin
Tompkins, four years; at Hyde Park, in the employ of the D.L. & W.R.R. two years; at Scranton, in the employ of Timothy Gilhool, four and a half years; at Adrian, Minnesota six months; at Kingston, in the employ of C.W. Boughtin, three years; at Mill
Creek, in the employ of Thomas Waddell, four and a half years; and in 1888 engaged in business for himself in the village of Plains, where he has since remained. Mr. Clark was married June 6, 1870 to Miss Adeline, daughter of Frederick K. and Anna
(Kocher) Spear, natives of Pennsylvania, and of German and French origin respectively. They have nine children...Mr and Mrs. Clark and four of his children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is a trustee, steward, class-lender,
and assistant superintendent of Sunday-school. He is a member of the P.O.S. of A. Politically he is a Republican, and has held office of treasurer in Plains township for two years. (History of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, H.C. Bradsby, editor, S. B.
Nelson & Co., publishers, 1893, p. 785.).

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