Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Clark, David M.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Haycock Township


  DAVID M. CLARK farmer, P.O. Richlandtown, was born in 
Washington, Washington county, Pa., in 1850.  His 
grandfather, Robert S. Clark, came to America from England 
in the year 1805, and was a real estate agent and 
conveyancer.  Two sons were born to Robert S.:  James and 
Robert, the latter now deceased.  James, father of David M., 
was born in Philadelphia in the year 1812.  He married for 
his second wife Sarah Ann Fitz Randolph in the year 1840.  
She bore him ten children and died in 1878.  David M. was a 
son of this marriage.  James Clark, D.D., married a third 
time, in his old age, Mrs. Sarah Hires, sister of F. 
Shepperd, of Philadelphia.  He was also the father of two 
children by the first marriage.   David M. Clark attended 
the schools and classical academies in Philadelphia until 
the age of 17 years, when he came to Bucks county and 
located on his present farm.  In 1872 he purchased this 
farm, which has been greatly improved under his management.  
In 1873 he married Miss Annie B., daughter of Samuel S. 
Bean, of Quakertown.  Seven children are the result of this 
marriage:  Bennington (deceased), David B., Stella 
(deceased), Annie, Mary, Walter and Gertrude.  Reverend 
James Clark, D.D., now a resident of Philadelphia, was for 
the greater part of his life a minister, which position he 
able filled.  He was graduated from the University of 
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1830, and was ordained to the 
gospel ministry by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, N. J., 
in 1837.  His first pastoral charge was in the Tennent 
church, Freehold, N. J., and his last in Lewisburg, Pa.  He 
was president of Washington college, Pa., 1850-52.  He 
received the degree of D.D. from Jefferson college.  Sarah 
Ann Fitz Randolph, wife of said James Clark, was the 
daughter of Francis C. Fitz Randolph, Esq., of Newark, N. 
J., and his wife, Phebe Halsey F. Randolph (born Crane) by 
whom he had ten children, of whom David M. is the sixth.  
Mrs. Sarah Ann Fitz Randolph was born in Elizabethtown, N. 
J., September 28, 1821, and departed this life November 6, 
1878.  Her remains rest in Woodland cemetery, West 
Philadelphia, a loving and faithful wife and mother.  The 
Clarks are members of the Presbyterian church and 
politically republicans.