SAMUEL
C. CLARK. In this publication, which has to do with
those who have been in the past or are to-day prominently
concerned in the business, professional, political and social
life of Richland county, we are gratified to give a specific
consideration to Samuel C. Clark, of Mansfield, for his
life has been one of activity and he is widely known throughout
the county.
Mt. Clark is a native on of the Buckeye state,
having been born in Mount Gilead, Morrow county, July 14, 1850,
the son of George Northrup Clark. The latter's
father was Samuel Clark, one of the pioneers of Ohio.
He was a native of the state of Connecticut, whence he came to
Ohio in the early days, locating at Boardman, Mahoning county,
where he was one of the first settlers, becoming one of the
influential men of that section of the state. He married a
Miss Northrup, of the well known old New England family
of that name, and they reared two sons and three daughters.
His son, George N., the father of the immediate subject
of this review, removed from Mahoning to Morrow county, settling
in South Woodbury, where he was engaged in the dry-goods
business for many years, being very successful in his endeavors.
He was a man of strong intellectuality and inflexible integrity
and his prominence and influence in Morrow county were umistakable,
as shown in the fact that he served two consecutive terms in
that state legislature, being the first representative that the
town of Woodbury had ever had in the general assembly.
At the outbreak of the war of the Rebellion George
N. Clark, signalized his patriotism and loyalty by enlisting
for service, as a member of the Ninety-sixth Regiment of Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, in which he held the office of adjutant.
At the close of the war he was elected county auditor, which led
to his removal to the county-seat, Mt. Gilead, in 1865, and
there he passed the residue of his life, passing away in 1893,
at an advanced age and secure in the esteem of all who knew him.
He married Mary Lowrey and had five children, of whom
three survive: Samuel C., of this sketch; Cyrus
C. who is engaged in the crude-oil business in Findlay,
Ohio; and Alice C., the wife of Charles Miller who
is a clerk in the freight office of the Pittsburg, Akron &
Western Railroad, at Akron.
Samuel C. Clark came to Mansfield in the year
1869. For some twelve or thirteen years he was employed by
the S. N. Ford Lumber Company, and then for a period of
eleven years he was a railway postal clerk; later was in charge
of the Fulton Truck & Foundry Company's business for about two
years; for abut one year he was the superintendent of the
Mansfield water works, and on the 1st of May, 1899, he received
from Mayor Brown the appointment to the important
and exacting office of chief of the police department of
Mansfield, and this position he held till September, 1900.
He engaged in the fire and life insurance business in February,
1901, in which he is meeting with success.
Mr. Clark was one of the charter
members of Mansfield Lodge, No. 56, B. P. O. E., and is also a
member of Madison Lodge, No. 26, Knights of Pythias, maintaining
a likely interest in these fraternities. In his political
adherency he has always given a stanch allegiance to the
Republican party and its principles.
Turning in conclusion to the more purely domestic
chapter in the career of Mr. Clark, we record that on
February 26, 1880, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Carrie
M. Day, a daughter of Sylvanus B. Day, a well-known
residence of Mansfield. Mrs. Clark has two
brothers, - Lieutenant Willis B. Day, of the United
States Navy, who is at present stationed in the government navy
yards at Brooklyn, New York; and Benjamin F. Day, who is
connected with the wholesale confectionary establishment of
Voegele & Demming, of Mansfield.
Mrs. Clark's grandfather in the agnate line was
Benjamin F. Day, who was a native of the historic old
state of New Jersey and who came from Chatham, Morris county,
that state, to Ohio, about the year 1838, becoming one of the
pioneers of the Buckeye state. Of his children we offer
the following brief record: Sylvanus B. is the father of
Mrs. Clark, as has been already noted. Rear
Admiral B. F. Day, of the United States Navy, has the
distinction of being the youngest man to occupy that important
office in the navy department of our government. He
resides on a plantation near Glasgow, Virginia, about three
miles from the famous Natural Bridge. Calvin Day, a
resident of Kansas City, Missouri, is the city passenger agent
of the Santa Fe Railroad. Maria became the wife of
John Blymeyer, a retired manufacturer of Mansfield.
Matilda is the widow of D. A. Beekman and resides
at Plymouth, Ohio. Harriet is the wife of Wells
Rogers, a retired shoe merchant of Plymouth, this state.
 Source #4: A Centennial Biographical History of Richland Co., Ohio
- Publ: Mansfield by A. A., Graham & Co. - 1901
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