Yolo County Biographies


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JONAS CLARK, M.D.
 
            Jonas Clark, M.D., Woodland, was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, 
September 23, 1853.  His father, also named Jonas Clark, was a native of the 
same State, while his mother, whose maiden name was Rachel S. Bagley, was born 
in Brookfield, Vermont.  He was educated at the Waltham school and at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he remained three years.  He 
completed his medical course at Harvard University, where he graduated in June, 
1875.  In 1874 he received the appointment of Interne of the Massachusetts 
Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, which position he filled until 1877, thus 
obtaining special opportunities in the treatment of the eye and the ear.  He 
arrived in California in March, 1877, and in June following located in Yolo 
County, where he has since been engaged in his chosen calling.  He first settled 
at Dunnigan�s, then at Yolo and Knight�s Landing, and finally in 1881 opened an 
office in Woodland.  His competency is well attested by an extensive and 
lucrative practice.  On the first of August, 1889, he formed a partnership with 
Dr. L. M. Gray, under the firm name of Clark & Gray.  During his residence here 
he has also paid considerable attention to the citrus culture, having a ranch of 
160 acres in Colusa County, where he had at one time a nursery of 5,000 orange 
trees; but they were destroyed by the rabbit pest two years ago.  During the 
present year (1889) he set out on his land about thirty acres of peaches.  He 
also has ten acres of choice land at the town of Escalante, at the mouth of 
Capay Valley, which was planted in 1889 to citrus fruits.
            The Doctor is a member of the orders of Knights of Pythias, Chosen 
Friends, Foresters and United Workmen, - all at Woodland.  He is also a member 
of the Medical Society of the State of California, the Yolo County Medical 
Society, and for a number of years has been secretary of the Yolo County Board 
of Health.
            Dr. Clark was married in June, 1876, to Miss Nora Tiernay, of 
Boston, Massachusetts, and they have two children, John and Marie, aged ten and 
twelve years respectively.
 
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler, July 2004.
SOURCE:  Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1891. pg. 315.