Bio: Clark, Charles H. (1881)

 
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Surnames: Clark, Taylor

----Source: History of Northern Wis. (Wood County, Wis.) 1881, page 1211

CHARLES H. CLARK, publisher of Marshfield Times. Was born in Morris Co., N. J., July 4, 1842. His mother died in 1846, and his father moved to DeKalb Co., Ill., in 1849, then to Milwaukee in 1852, then to Manistee, Mich., where his father died in 1868. Charles H. had no opportunities for an education, his father living nearly all the time on the frontier. At the age of fourteen, he commenced to learn the cooper's trade, and worked at it eight years, then inspected lumber about six years, and was in a drug store. In 1876, he started the Centennial newspaper, at Waterloo, Neb.; then next year moved to Craig, Mo., and for two years published the Craig Enterprise. Came to Centralia, Wis., in 1879, and started the Enterprise, as an independent paper; sold out to Judge Hayden some six months after; then came to Marshfield and published the Marshfield Times, also the Wood County Herald, a German paper, both Republican. The Herald is no longer published, but he has just started an independent paper in Cumberland, Barron Co. Was married, Oct. 4, 1863, to Miss Elnora A. Taylor, of Newbury, Wis. Have one child, Ida May. Mr. Clark is a Mason and an Odd Fellow.