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WILLIAM T. CLARK, The late William T. Clark, one of the reliable citizens and prosperous farmers of the town of Ellicott, was a son of William and Anna (Martin) Clark, and was born in Chautauqua county, New York, November 24, 1825. His paternal grandfather, William Clark, Sr., married Jeannette Thompson, who was a native of Scotland, and came from that country to New York with Mrs. Agnes (Thompson) Prendergast. One of their sons was William Clark, the father of the late William T. Clark, and who was a life-long resident of New York.

William T. Clark was reared on the old homestead farm in the town of Ellicott, where he was engaged in farming and stock-raising until his death, March 25, 1878, at fifty-three years of age. He was a substantial citizen, an industrious farmer and a strong republican in politics. He was a Sir Knight of a Masonic Commandery, had been for several years a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his remains he interred in Levant cemetery.

He married Nancy S. Chandler, of this county. They were the parents of two children: James P., a member of the grocery firm of Clark & Jones, of Jamestown, and a prominent Grange advocate, who married Anise Washburn, and owns two hundred acres of good land; and Annie, who married H. L. Fairbank, and died leaving three children: Harvey C., Henrietta and Emily N.

Mrs. Nancy S. Clark, who resides in Jamestown, is a daughter of Woodley W. Chandler, who was born in Virginia, February 14, 1800, and came to Jamestown about 1820. He was engaged for a short time in the lumber business and then built a carding and cloth-dressing establishment on the site of the present woolen factory of Preston & Bradshaw. After some years he retired from the woolen business, and removed to Levant, where he died on his farm, April 22, 1854. Mr. Chandler was a prominent citizen as well as an early settler of the county. He married Phoebe Winsor, daughter of Abraham Winsor, an old and highly respected resident of Ellicott. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler were the parents of six children: Phebe Pardee, wife of James Pardee; Gen. Martin S., an active republican of Redwing, Minnesota, who served twenty-two years as sheriff of the county of Goodhue, and afterwards was surveyor-general of Minnesota; John W., who also resides at Redwing, and was formerly engaged in the folding department of the House of Representatives; Nancy N., the widow of the subject of this sketch; Winsor A., a jeweler, who died in Erie, Pa.; and Williamson B., a Union soldier of the late war, who was taken prisoner, exchanged and discharged for physical disability in 1863, after which he bought a ticket for California, but has never been heard of since by his people.