Bio: Clark, C. L. (1881)
Poster:: Crystal Wendt.

Surnames: Clark, Wood, Cady, Clifford

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 573

C. L. CLARK, foreman with W. J. Clifford, Spencer, born in Orleans Co., Vt., June 7, 1838. Removed to Canada with his parents, where his father ran a transportation train from Montreal to Stanstead Plain and to Vermont. C. L. attended school in Canada, and upon coming to Sheboygan County, began farming. When twenty-one years of age he learned the millwright's trade, and went to work in Oshkosh. In 1861, he enlisted in the Wis. 1st I. V., Co. I; was mustered out in the Fall of 1864. He then entered the quarter-master department, but later went to millwrighting and running mills. He tried farming in Sheboygan County, in 1868, and clerked the next year in Green Bay. In the great fire that devastated the pineries in 1871, he lost everything, scarcely saving the lives of his family. Under the most distressing necessity, they plunged into the mill pond, throwing in the women and children, and there they were kept for ten or twelve hours, with heads submerged part of the time. The women never recovered the shock and at the end of the year, were all numbered with the dead. He then once more started in life and with varied experience. At different times he worked at the mills along the line of the Wisconsin Central Railroad, from Chelsea down to Spencer, where he came in 1876, and built a mill for Blake, Wood & Co. He bought an interest which he soon sold, and went to Yellow River. In 1879, he returned to Spencer and built a mill for Clifford and acted as foremen, in which position he is still. In 1866, married Miss Sarah Cady, of Omro; who died in 1872, leaving three children — Frederic C., Bertha, and Blanche. He married Miss Emily Wood, of Spencer, in 1877. They have a family of two, Elmer and Bell. Mr. Clark belongs to the Temple of Honor.