San Diego County Biographies
 
DANIEL H. CLARK

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Came into the valley from the northern part of the State four years before there 
was any town platted in San Jacinto. He came very near being a son of the Golden 
West, as his father moved to California with his family when the subject of this 
sketch was but one year old. His father, H. W. Clark, and his mother, nee Miss 
M. J. Miller, were both natives of Arkansas. Daniel H. Clark was the eldest of 
their family of nine children, and was born in Johnson County, Arkansas, October 
13, 1855. When he was a boy the family resided in Fresno County, and there he 
received his education. When seventeen years of age he began to do for himself, 
and went into the business of raising hogs. When nineteen years of age he was 
married to Miss Eliza Winkleman, who was born in California in 1859. The 
marriage occurred in 1874. The fruit of the union is seven children, viz.: 
Frederick J., Ida H., Henry Franklin, Walter Anderson, Clandy Noel, Clara and 
Eliza. The three first were born in Los Angeles, and the rest in San Jacinto. 
After his marriage he lived a short time in Fresno County, when he removed to 
Arizona and then to Los Angeles.  There he bought a place near Westminster, and 
in 1879 they removed San Jacinto. There were then about ten families in the 
whole valley for miles in every direction. Mr. Hewitt had his adobe house and 
store; Mr. Jordan and wife, Mr. Webster and family, the two Mr. Estudillo's, Mr. 
Logsdors and family, Mr. Collins, Mr. Carroll, Mr. Larson, Mr. Giar, and Mr. 
Proko A. Kimbo. Mr. Clark took a Government claim of 160 acres, which he lived 
on and improved, and afterward sold. He then bought twenty acres and built on it 
his present home, and planted trees and made other improvements: He is now a 
partner with Mr. Hewitt in the livery business. They have a large stock of good 
carriages and horses; and in addition to their livery business they are putting 
in large quantities of barley and wheat. More than 1,200 acres is now being 
sowed by them.
        When Garfield was elected President Mr. Clark was appointed Postmaster 
at what was then called the Rock House (now Wichita). He held the office three 
years and resigned it in favor of Mrs. Rice. Mrs. Clark is a Methodist, and Mr. 
Clark is a hard working honorable citizen.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  144-145