Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The History of Oregon, Vol. I 1834-1848. From "The Works
of Hubert Howe Bancroft," Vol. XXIX.  The History Company, San Francisco, CA,
1886. pg. 468.

DANIEL CLARK

	Daniel Clark, a native of King County, Ireland, was born Feb. 14, 1824.  His
father emigrated to Quebec in 1828, and went from Canada to Missouri in 1836.
At 13 Daniel was impelled to begin life for himself; and engaged with a neighbor
for 8 dollars a month to cut cord-wood.  At 18 he was employed as oversser on a
plantation; but hearing of the prosepctive donation of land in Oregon to actual
settlers, determined to go to the new country, and try his fortune there.  He
joined the independent colony under Gilliam, and arriving late and destitute,
went to making rails.  Two years afterward he married Miss Bertha B. Herren.  In
1848 he went to the California mines, returning to Oregon for his wife and
infant child the same winter.  In 1850 he left the mines and returned to his
home 5 miles south of Salem.  His wife dying in 1861, he married again in 1865
Miss Harriet Scheoffler.  When the Oregon state grange was organized in 1873 he
was elected master for his services in the movement, in which he has ever been
heartily interested.  Mr Clark lived long in firm health and vigor, enjoying the
reward of a temperate and just life.  

[Transcriber's note: Bancroft copied the above obituary for Daniel Clark from
"S. F. Pacific Rural Press, in Or. Cultivator, June 15, 1876]

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