Smith, Clark Edwin

1848 - 1925  (76 years)    Has no ancestors but 19 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Smith, Clark Edwin
  Born	4 Aug 1848	, , New York, USA
  Gender	Male
  Military Service	Bef 1866
  Civil War - Company A, 193rd Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry
  Moved	Abt 1868	, , Wisconsin, USA
  Biography	1911
  History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Page 0871
  CLARK E. SMITH, a highly esteemed citizen of Deer Creek township, who was for a long period of years engaged in agricultural pursuits, was born August 4, 1848, in St. Lawrence county, New York, a son of Darius and Mary L. (Rogers) Smith, natives of Vermont and New York, respectively, who were married in the latter State, where they spent their lives. Mr. Smith was the only child of his parents, and he began to work at the age of fourteen years. In 1865 he enlisted in Company A, 193rd Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, but never left the State with his regiment, as he was taken sick and for three weeks confined to the hospital. After the war he resumed working for wages in a sawmill, and in December, 1867, he was married to Miss Betsy A. Davis, born December 10, 1849, daughter of Stephen and Martha Davis, natives of New York, where they spent their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Smith had two children: Albert E., who died at the age of ten years; and Mary V., who married Julius Conrad, and now lives in Deer Creek township, having ten children. Mr. Smith came to Wisconsin in 1868 and bought forty acres of wild land in Maple Creek township, a wild, wooded tract, to clear which Mr. Smith had only his ax, shovel and hoe. He cut down trees, made logs and with the assistance of neighbors built a little log house and barn, and by giving two days of his work for each day he borrowed his neighbors' yoke of oxen, he managed to get his seed in and harvested. He continued in this way for five years, by which time he was able to get a team of oxen, and a wagon, plow and harrow, and thus being equipped to clear land he sold his forty acres and bought an eighty-acre tract in Deer Creek township, which he cleared and farmed until April, 1885. His wife died at this time and Mr. Smith sold the farm and went to Antigo, Wisconsin, where he worked at various occupations until 1896, at which time he came to live with his daughter. Mr. Smith is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, being a popular comrade of Starkweather Post, No. 51, of Welcome, of which he served as adjutant six years and one year as commander. He is a Republican in politics, having served four years as clerk of the school board, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Welcome.
  	Smith, Clark E. Biography from History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin; 1911.
  Died	21 Apr 1925	Deer Creek, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
  Person ID	I154438	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	12 Oct 2015

  
  

  Family	Davis, Betsy A.,   b. 10 Dec 1849, , , New York, USA ,   d. Abt Apr 1885, Deer Creek, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 35 years)
  Children	+ 1. Smith, Mary Viola,   b. 6 Jul 1870, Deer Creek, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA ,   d. 4 Jan 1928  (Age 57 years)
  Last Modified	27 Jun 2014
  Family ID	F62603	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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