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Aurora Biographical Sketches |
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FRANK H. CLARK, farmer, town of Aurora, was born in Ireland in 1822, but of Scotch ancestry, and came to America with his parents in 1829, and located near Philadelphia, where his father followed his trade, that of mason, and where Mr. Clark was apprenticed to learn the trade of cotton and manufacturing, which he followed until 1852; he purchased a farm near Philadelphia in 1805, which he sold in 1854 and came to this State, purchasing a farm in Waushara County, where he has lived and followed the occupation of farming ever since; some six years ago he sold his first farm and bought the farm of 80 acres upon which he now lives; he has been Treasurer of the town of Aurora for two years. In 1845 he was married to Miss Eliza Dillon, who was a native of Maryland. Mr. Clark has accumulated a competence by honest perservering industry.