Joseph Clark

    Joseph Clark is a native of Montgomery County, Ohio, where he was born April 14, 1846, and is a son of Otho and Elizabeth (Oaks) Clark, the former a native of Washington County, MD, and the latter of Franklin County, PA. They were married in Pennsylvania, and removed to Dayton, Ohio about 1838, where they resided until October, 1846, when they removed to Huntington County, Clear Creek Township, Indiana, where Mr. Clark engaged in farming and shoemaking, residing on a farm of 200 acres, and by his won industrious, energetic efforts from the humblest beginnings, raised himself to a position of ease and comfort in his old age.

    He now resides in Jefferson Township, Whitley County, where he moved in April, 1866. His wife died December 23, 1880. Of a family of ten children, seven are yet living. Joseph Clark is the seventh child, was reared on a farm, and received a good common-school education. He began teaching at nineteen and taught nine terms. Was married in November, 1875, to Miss Leah Schinbechtel, a native of Ohio -and after his marriage, continued farming, teaching, assessing and saw-milling until October, 1878, when he was elected Treasurer of Whitley County, re-elected in 1880. He is now serving his second term.

    He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and a Democrat. His family consists of four children -Ida L., Ethan O., Walter L., and one unnamed. Mr. Clark owns 150 acres of land in Jefferson Township, and had three brothers in the late war.

Source: Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana, Historical and Biographical. Weston A. Goodspeed, Charles Blanchard, 1882. Page 243.