William P. Clark

    William P. Clark is a native of Morgan County, Indiana, born August 23, 1835, and is the fourth of the seven children of John and Isabella (Major) Clark, both born in Indiana and in the same year, 1810. Soon after their marriage, they moved to Tippecanoe County, and thence to Morgan County, settling in this township, where Mr. Clark died in 1844. Mrs. Clark subsequently married William H. Craig, and died in 1881,  by the latter marriage becoming the mother of three children.

    William P. Clark married, February 12, 1857, Miss Keziah, daughter of John and Sarah Rudicel. Mrs. Clark died May 17, 1863, and May 17, 1864, he married Alzina H., daughter of Lewis and Hannah Warren. Soon after this marriage, Mr. Clark moved to Martinsville, and in 1872 purchased the Martinsville Flouring Mills, in which business of milling he was engaged for five years. In June, 1883, he moved to the farm on which he now lives. Mr. Clark has been the father of five children, two by his first wife, Noah J. (deceased) and Minnie (deceased), and three by his second wife -Lulu Gettie and John W.

Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.