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Prof. S. T. Clark, of Dixon Academy, was born at Elmwood in 1845, one of five children of H. B. and Martha (Brown) Clark. The father, of Irish origin, born in Virginia in 1802, is a retired merchant and farmer, who lost much by the war. He was justice for several years, and is still living with his sons near Elmwood. The mother, born in Amherst County, Va., in 1806, died in 1866. Educated at Granville and Forest Home College, near Louisville, Ky., our subject began for himself when nineteen, in his chosen profession. In 1868 he married Tennie, daughter of J. C. and Mary J. (Holford) Apple, and born in 1852. Their three children are Compton, at Dixon Springs Academy; Wilbur A., with his grandfather Apple, and John B. (deceased). Mrs. Clark died in 1883. For four years from 1867 Mr. Clark taught at Granville, then for the same time had charge of Snow Creek Academy, when he built the Elmwood Institute in 1875. He was principal until 1878, when he associated with him Prof. J. H. Watts until 1883. Then after running it alone for fifteen months he took charge of Dixon Springs Academy, his present flourishing and promising institution. He is a Democrat, a Mason, and he, his wife and two children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.