Bios:  ROBERT S. CLARK, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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       ROBERT S. CLARK,
   
   [p. 504] general farmer and dairyman, residing on his valuable property
   in North Beaver Township, where he owns 130 acres which are situated
   within less than two miles of Mt. Jackson, on the Springfield and Mt.
   Jackson road, belongs to one of the oldest and most honorable families
   of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Clark was born in that county, March
   14, 1851, and is a son of William and Mary (Sherer) Clark.
   
   The paternal grandfather, William Clark, was one of the early settlers
   of Beaver County. The maternal grandmother of Robert S. Clark was a
   daughter of Charles Clark, and he was one of the original settlers in
   North Beaver Township, coming from near Lewistown, Pennsylvania, with
   his uncle, Walter Clark. Charles Clark owned the farm on which Robert S.
   now resides, locating here in 1802, and Walter Clark owned the land to
   the east of this farm. Charles and Walter Clark donated the land on
   which the Westfield Presbyterian Church now stands, being founders of
   the same. The father of Walter Clark and grandfather of Charles came
   originally from Lancaster County to Lewistown, in 1750. Although of the
   same name as the paternal ancestors, the families came from different
   branches.
   
   William Clark, father of Robert S., was born and was reared in Beaver
   County on his father's pioneer farm near Homewood. After the death of
   his first wife he bought a farm in Little Beaver Township, Lawrence
   County and there he resided until his death, in October, 1901. He was
   married (first) to Mary Sherer, who was a daughter of Capt. Robert
   Sherer, an officer in the militia, the Mt. Jackson Guards. At one time
   Captain Sherer owned and resided upon a part of the present farm of his
   grandson, the latter of whom came to live with the grandfather at the
   the time of the death of his young mother, being then a babe of but four
   months and an only child. William Clark was married (second) to
   Elizabeth Woodworth and six children were born to them, namely: William
   R., who resides on a farm about two and one-half miles west of Mt.
   Jackson; Lydia, who married Charles Strohecher, lives four miles north
   of Enon; Rufus, who is a farmer living in Little Beaver Township; Mary,
   who married James Boggs, lives near Enon, in Beaver County; Evelyn, who
   is the wife of George Gibson, and Agnes, who is the wife of Wilbur Gray.
   Mr. and Mrs. Gray live on the homestead in Little Beaver Township.
   
   Robert S. Clark attended the neighborhood schools and was reared to
   agricultural pursuits. In early manhood he married Nannie Imbrie, who is
   a daughter of Rev. D. R. Imbrie, who was pastor of the First United
   Presbyterian Church of New Wilmington for a quarter of a century. Mr.
   and Mrs. Clark have seven children: William Imbrie, who follows the
   profession of an architect, at New Castle, was married there to Ethel
   Rumberger, on May 19, 1908; Mary, who married Guy Gilmore, has two
   children, Walter and Howard; Elsie, who has completed a three years'
   course at Westminster College at New Wilmington, is a teacher of the
   Normal School at Marion, Alabama; Eleanor, who began teaching school
   before she was seventeen years of age, is a graduate of the Mt. Jackson
   High School and of Westminster College, and was recently elected
   principal of the Mt. Jackson High School; and George, Dale and Kenneth.
   
   Mr. Clark gives his attention largely to dairying, keeping from eighteen
   to twenty cows and operating a milk route through the Seventh Ward, New
   Castle. For over twenty-seven years he has been an elder in the Bethel
   United Presbyterian Church.
   
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   20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
   Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
   Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
   
   Updated: 30 Oct 2001