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p. 155-156.

CLARK, ALEXANDER CARROLL:  Identified with the pioneer 
development and history of the northwest was Alexander 
Carroll Clark, who was born in North Carolina in 1829, a son 
of James A. and Harriett (Stinson) Clark.  The former was a 
son of Joseph and Ruth (Alexandria) Clark.  Joseph Clark was 
born in North Carolina in 1753 and in Mecklenburg county, that 
state, enlisted in the spring of 1780 for service in the 
Revolutionary war.  He was with the army for two years and 
participated in the Siege of Ninety-six and the battle of 
Orangesburg.  His wife, who was born in April, 1769, was a 
daughter of Captain William Alexandria, who served under 
Colonel Wade Hampton in South Carolina.  Joseph Clark and Ruth 
Alexandria were married in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, 
April 2, 1789, and their children were Rebecca, Mary, William,
 Susannah, Margaret, James A., Josiah G., Elijah C., and Joseph H.  
The father of this family was brother of Abraham Clark, one of 
the signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration.  The Clark family 
was very prominent all through the Revolutionary war and also 
during the colonial period in the south.
	Alexander Carroll Clark acquired a common school education 
in Iowa, whither he went during the period in which that state 
was a frontier district.  He was married in Iowa, in 1849, when 
but nineteen years of age, to Miss Eliza Jane Baker and they 
became the parents of three sons and a daughter, Charles, Walter, 
Guy and Laura.  The last named was the wife of Alexander Young, 
who died November 3, 1895. 
	Two years after his marriage Mr. Clark started over the old 
Oregon trail to the northwest and was seven months in completing 
the journey.  A major portion of his party of two hundred died on 
the trail of cholera.  In the fall of 1852 he reached Portland, Oregon, 
and settled at the mouth of the Cowlitz river, where he became 
the owner of a large farm of three hundred and sixty acres.  There 
he engaged in farming and cattle raising until his death in February, 
1886.  His widow is still residing near Catlin on the original farm 
at the advanced age of eighty-four years.  Mr. Clark always remained 
a strong southern sympathizer but during the Civil war he had five 
brothers and eleven nephews who were in the Union army, although 
the Clarks had been a southern family for generations.  Alexander C. 
Clark fought against the Indians in the uprisings in Washington 
territory, and was among those who were active in planting the 
seeds of civilization in the northwest.

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