Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis
Pub. Co. 1893.  p. 700.
 
CLARK SMITH

     Was born in Greenup, Cumberland county, Illinois, January 16, 1843.  His
father, William E. Smith, was from Ohio, near Columbus.  His grandfather, Jesse
Smith, was one of the first settlers of Fairfield county, Ohio.  The family have
been industrious farmers and earnest Methodists.  Mr. Smith, Sr., married Miss
Nancy Adams, of the same State and they have had ten children, all but one of
whom he brought with him to Oregon in 1864.  They selected in Washington county,
four miles north of Hillsboro, and purchased a farm.  Here Mr. William E. Smith
resided until 1892, when he moved to Hillsboro.  His wife died in 1871 and four
of the nine children, who came to Oregon with them, are also dead.
     Dr. Smith was the second son and was educated at Marshall College, Illinois
and at the State Normal University.  He left college in 1864 to go to Oregon,
where he finished his literary course, and from the Willamette University
received his M.A. degree in 1869.  later he studied medicine and graduated, in
1879, from the Texas Medical College in Galveston, Texas.  He practiced in Texas
for several years, was engaged in educational work in various colleges and later
at the Rocky Mountain Seminary at Salt Lake City.  He also practiced his
profession in Mexico and at Fort Scott, Kansas.  He occupied for a year the
position of Superintendent of Instruction and teacher at the Tule river Indiana
reservation.  He was also a pastor of the Methodist Church at Tulare, Tulare
City, California, and then lived at Fresno, California.  After this he was sent
to Central Africa as a medical missionary under Bishop Taylor.  In 1886 he
retired from Africa and began the practice of medicine at Cornelius, Washington
county, Oregon, where he has since resided and continued his practice.  In 1888
he was elected County Superintendent of Instruction, in which capacity he served
for four years.  During his term he has formed over twenty new districts and has
introduced many valuable improvements in the methods of the schools of the
county.  He has done much valuable work and greatly advanced the school
interests of the county, to the great satisfaction of all parties interested in
educational affairs.
     Dr. Smith was married in 1872 to Miss Anina Royal, of Illinois, an
accomplished school teacher.  They had four children, namely:  William Edward,
May Caroline, Jesse Karl and Grace Adeline.  In 1885, while at Melange, in
Central Africa, Mrs. Smith died, and in 1888 Mr. Smith married Miss Regina
Stadler, of Fairmount, Illinois.
     The Doctor on coming to Cornelius purchased a pleasant home, where he now
resides.  He is a Republican in politics and is widely and favorably known in
Oregon as a successful physician of the allopathic school and an enthusiast in
educational affairs.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in November 2005 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.