Notes for Alexander H. (Howell?) CLARK

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Notes for Alexander H. (Howell?) CLARK

Mr. Clark moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan and died without leaving posterity.
Possibly was an early settler in Gaines, Kent County, Michigan. May have located on section 8 in 1837.
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Alexander H Clark and Abram Laraway settled in the year 1835 Jacob Patterson Miner Patterson James Patterson Orleans Spauld ing and Philanzo Bowen in the year 1837 Nicholas Carlton in the year 1837 and Hiram H Allen in the year 1838 Alexander H Clark was born in Trenton NJ May 21 1804 He came to Michigan in 1828 and settled in Wayne county purchasing forty acres of land but a year later he sold it and went to Plymouth purchased forty acres and again sold out and this time went to Superior Washtenaw county Three years later he settled in Paris and in 1836 purchased 160 acres in Section 14 A year later he sold his claim and purchased 160 acres in Sections 8 and 9 He was one of the earliest if not the first white settler in the present limits of the township He afterward lived in Gaines about thirty years but returned to Paris and purchased 106 acres on Section 30 Mr Clark adhered to Greenback doctrines politically He served as justice of the peace fourteen years township clerk three years and supervisor three years.
[Grand Rapids and # county, Michigan history and account of their progress from first settlement to the present time edited by Ernest B. Fisher, p. 246]
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