Ohio Biographies



James Clark


James Clark, youngest son of David and Nancy Clark, was born in Hamilton County, O., Oct. 19, 1816. He came to Shelby County with his parents in March, 1820, and located in Loramie Township. On the 2d of April, 1868, he married Mrs. Harriet L. Riffle, widow of Jacob Riffle, daughter of Isaac and Phebe Winans, then of Cynthian Township, this county, but a native of New Jersey, where she was born December 11, 1826. Mr. and Mrs. Clark settled on a part of his father’s home farm in section 19, on which they lived until in the autumn of 1871, when they moved on the farm in section 18, on which they now reside. He has made farming his vocation, and now owns two good farms in Loramie Township.

 

From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883

 


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