Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Clark, Charles B. January 1, 1854 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

CHARLES B. CLARK, 
resident of Altoona since 1881, and a member of the Blair county bar, is a
son of Warren and Clarissa (Eno) Clark, and was born in Trumbull county in
the famous "Western Reserve" of Ohio, New Years day, 1854.  The Clarks are of
Scotch-Irish Puritan lineage, and Giles Clark, the great-great-grandfather of
Charles B. Clark, went in 1801 to Trumbull county, where he took up a large
tract of land.  His grandson Henry Clark (grandfather), although born in
Connecticut was reared in the Western Reserve in Ohio where he followed
farming until his death in 1866 at sixty-seven years of age.  His son Warren
Clark (father) was born Trumbull county in 1826 and in 1870 went to Michigan,
which he left four years later to settle at Blairsville, Indiana county,
Pennsylvania where he remained until 1887.  In that year he went to Florida
for his health and in 1890 came to Altoona, where he has resided ever
since.  Mr. Clark followed carpentering and farming until a few years ago,
when he retired from all business pursuits.  He was an old-line whig, and
when that party went down became republican.  He married Clarissa Eno, of
Trumbull county, Ohio who was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal
church from early youth to her death in 1889, when she was in the
fifty-eighth year of her age.  
     Charles B. Clark was reared chiefly in his native country, received his
education in the common schools of Ohio, and followed teaching for eight
years in the states of Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania.  During the last three
years that he was employed as a teacher he read law, and was admitted to the
Indiana county bar September 13, 1880.  After admission to the bar, he
practiced at Blairsville that county until 1881 when he accepted a clerical
position with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Altoona, which he held for
four years.  He then resumed the practice of his profession, was admitted in
October, 1885 to practice in the courts of Blair county and before the
Supreme court of Pennsylvania, and has continued to practice successfully at
Altoona ever since.  In 1886 Mr. Clark engaged in publishing city directories
and has issued first-class directories for Altoona and Johnstown ever since. 
In 1888 he published a directory of Beaver Falls and the lower Beaver Valley
and has now purchased printing presses for the purpose of doing his own
printing in the directory business, in which he has been very successful.  He
is a republican in politics and an attendant of the Methodist Episcopal
church, to which he is a liberal contributor.
     On December 13, 1877, Mr. Clark was united in marriage with Hallie I.
Johnson, daughter of Michael Johnson of Westmoreland county.  Their union was
blessed with two children: Nellie now thirteen years old; and Stella Mabel,
who died at the age of four years.  Mr. Clark is now a widower.

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