Yolo County Biographies


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JESSE CLARK
 
a retired farmer and an old resident of Woodland, was born December 8, 1821, in 
Christian County, Kentucky, a son of Henry and Priscilla Clark; his father, a 
farmer, was a native of Tennessee, and his mother of North Carolina.  When a 
small boy Henry Clark was taken to Kentucky, where he remained a number of 
years; he then moved to Cole County, Missouri, on the Osage River, and resided 
there nine years; then moved to Chariton County, Missouri, where he remained 
until his death in 1861, at the age of eighty-four years.  His wife died in 
1865.  In their family were six sons:  Isaac, Benjamin, Henry, Michael and 
Ephraim, besides the subject of this sketch.
            Jesse Clark was brought up on a farm.  At the age of eighteen years 
he left home for two years; at the age of twenty-four he married and commenced 
farming for himself, and remained in Missouri until April 6, 1852, when he 
started overland with ox teams to California, in a train of five wagons and 
about forty persons, arriving in this State August 13.  In company with his 
brother Henry he engaged in mining about a year in Sierra County; then spent a 
winter in the Sonoma Valley, while his brother continued in charge of the mines 
in Sierra County.  In 1854 he began searching for a ranch where he could make 
his home, and after hunting around considerably he settled three miles southwest 
of what is now Woodland, on 160 acres.  After a residence there of fifteen 
years, and making a fine farm, he moved into Woodland, where he now resides, in 
a beautiful residence on West Main street.  He sold his farm in 1884, since 
which time he has been taking life easy.  When he first settled in this county 
his trading post was Cacheville, and Woodland was unthought of.
            In 1845 he married Miss Sarah Sanders, a native of Missouri, and 
they have had eight children, six daughters and two sons.  The daughters are:  
Mary Jane, Priscilla, Margaret Frances, Usith, Amanda and Pesthania.  The first 
mentioned is dead; the second married S. T. Pendegast; Margaret married A. J. 
Hall; Amanda became the wife of R. M. Huston; Usith is now Mrs. Hanford Hubbard; 
and Pesthania married P. J. Flannigan.  The two sons � H. C. and R. L. � are 
married.  Henry resides in Lassen County, farming, and R. L. resides in San 
Francisco.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler