BIOGRAPHY: Clark J. DUNCAN, 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. 372-3
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CLARK J. DUNCAN, of Dunlo, this county, and owner and proprietor of the only 
hotel in Adams township, is a son of Alexander and Catherine (Uncapher) Duncan, 
and was born December 20, 1857, in Indiana county, Pennsylvania.
     Mr. Duncan was at a very early age compelled to assume the responsibilities 
of life on his own account; his father entered the Civil War in defense of the 
Union and the Flag and lost his life in the service. Young Duncan attended the 
common schools for a time and then entered the lumbering business along the 
Susquehanna river, in Clearfield county, and as far east as Williamsport. Later 
he removed into the northern part of Cambria county and followed the fortunes of 
a lumberman until 1893. Upon the latter date he came to the town of Dunlo and 
built a hotel, which he has operated ever since.
     In addition to his hotel business he interests himself in the material 
advancement and the public enterprises of his adopted town and township. He is 
secretary and treasurer of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings Fund and Loan 
association, an institution through the benefices of which many of the miners of 
Dunlo have been able to secure comfortable homes.
     He interests himself in the cause of fraternal organizations and belongs to 
a number of high standing, among which are the following: South Fork Lodge, No. 
838, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Salix Castle, No. 345, Knights of the 
Golden Eagle, of Salix, and the Improved Order of Heptasophs of South Fork. He 
performs his political duties as they appeal to his conscience by voting with 
and subscribing to the principles of the Republican party, and he is at present 
township auditor of Adams township, and formerly, for a number of years, served 
as school director of White township, this county.
     July 5, 1885, Clara Buterbaugh became his wife. They are the parents of 
four children: Ruby, Cecil, Ivis and Jem.