BIOGRAPHY: Alpheus B. CLARK, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 456-7
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ALPHEUS B. CLARK, a prosperous grain dealer and livery proprietor of Hastings, 
is a son of Luther M. and Elmira (Hazlett) Clark, and was born at Cherrytree, 
Indiana county, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1862. He received his education in 
the common schools, served as a clerk for his father until he attained his 
majority, and then engaged in the livery business at Cherrytree, Indiana county, 
where he remained up to 1889. In that year he came to Hastings, and started his 
present livery and sales stables on Fourth avenue. His stables consist of a main 
building, 50 x 73 feet, and an annex, 16 x 40 feet. He keeps twelve head of 
driving and saddle horses, and a good equipment of all kinds of traveling 
vehicles. His riding horses and teams are in constant demand, and he has built 
up a good patronage. In connection with his livery he conducts a wholesale grain 
business, and in both enterprises has invested $4000 of capital, on which he is 
doing a yearly business of nearly $11,000. He is a member of Cherrytree Lodge, 
No. 417, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Cherrytree, Indiana county, and a 
member and the junior deacon of Summit Lodge, No. 310, Free and Accepted Masons, 
of Ebensburg. He is a republican politically, and has been for three years a 
member and the secretary of the school board of Hastings.
     Mr. Clark has, during the whole of his life, and particularly since coming 
to Hastings, been an active and enterprising business man. He has made his 
investments judiciously, and been successful in his particular lines of 
business. He is a pleasant and congenial gentleman, who is well deserving of his 
success.
     Alpheus B. Clark, on February 2, 1887, married Amanda Ache, whose father, 
Jacob Ache, is a resident of Gettysburg, Indiana. Their union has been blessed 
with two children: L. Steele and George.
     The progenitor of the Clark family in New England and Pennsylvania came 
from Holland, and Virtue Clark was a native of New Haven, Connecticut. He was a 
clockmaker by trade, and in 1841 came to a farm near Cherrytree, Indiana county, 
where he did some farming and followed the making of old-fashioned eight-day, 
brass-spring clocks, so famous as timekeepers, and now among the highest-prized 
articles in antiquarian collections. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, 
and married Mary Catherine Grove, by whom he had nine children, six sons and 
three daughters, of whom the following grew to maturity: Samuel, who served in 
the One Hundred and Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania volunteers; James; Susan, 
married William Hamilton; Hannah, Sylvester, Luther M., and Alpheus B., who 
served in the One Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania volunteers, and was wounded in 
one of the battles in which he participated. Luther M. Clark was born in York 
county, and was brought by his parents to near Cherrytree, Indiana county, where 
he was reared, and engaged in the lumber and general mercantile business. He is 
an extensive lumber dealer, has a large and heavily-stocked store, and has 
accumulated considerable wealth, being known as one of the leading business men 
of his section of Indiana county. He is republican in political affairs, but 
gives his time to business, being neither politician nor office-seeker.
     Mr. Clark married Elmira Hazlett, a daughter of Samuel Hazlett, of 
Clearfield county, and their children are: Alpheus B., the subject of this 
sketch; Cora, wife of Dr. James Miller, of Jeannette, Westmoreland county; Mary, 
married Dr. George Martin, of East Conemaugh; and Blanche, Sibyl and Dollie, who 
are still at home.