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Identifier: utahsincestateho02warr (find matches)
Title: Utah since statehood, historical and biographical
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Warrum, Noble Morse, Charles W Ewing, W. Brown
Subjects: Utah -- Biography Utah -- History
Publisher: Chicago--Salt Lake, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ected his labors, his sound judgment and energyhave brought to him success. FRED C. CLARK. Fred C. Clark, who is engaged In farming at Alpine, was born April 18. 1851, atNormanton, Derbyshire, England, a son of George and Catharine (Gascone) Clark. Thefather, who was a coal miner in England, came to America in 1863 with his wife andfour children, making the trip on a sailing vessel which sank on Its return trip. Mr.Clark crossed the plains in Captain Mumfords company, traveling with ox teams. Hecamped for two days where the county building of Alpine now stands and afterward wentto American Fork. In the following spring, however, he removed to Alpine and aboutone mile north of that place homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land, whichhe carefully developed and improved. Not only did he successfully carry on farmingbut also became president of the Alpine Irrigation Company. He was prominent in com-munity affairs, serving as mayor of Alpine, and he remained an active worker in the
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FRED C. CLARK i UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD 501 church. He had presided over a branch in England before coming to America and hewas one of the first superintendents of the Sunday school at Alpine, where he also servedas ward teacher and as temple worker. His death occurred in 1903. Fred C. Clark was but nine years of age when he began working in the coal minesof England for six pence per day and furnished his own candles. After coming withhis father to the new world, when a lad of twelve years, he did farm work at Alpineand continued to make his home with his father to the time of his marriage, which oc-curred when he was twenty-five years of age. He wedded Angelia Vance, a daughterof Major John W. and Angelia (Vail) Vance. Her father was born in Tennessee, Octo-ber 26, 1830, and was a representative of an old southern family. The mother is stillliving and is now the oldest resident of Alpine, having made her home continuouslyat that place since 1850. She came to Utah with her mother, who wa

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