Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Clark, Robert W. August 2, 1848 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 420
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Robert W Clark, MD, of Dunbar whose great grandfather, 
Robert Clark, emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, to the 
United States in 1775 and settled in Lancaster county, 
Penna.  He was a farmer and died in that county in 1850, 
upon the same property taken up by his father.  His wife's 
name was Miss Scott, daughter of a Scotch Irishman.  They 
had eight children: William Clark, Thomas Clark, Robert 
Clark, James Clark, Mary Clark, Jane Clark, Nancy Clark, and 
Margaret Eliza Clark.  
    His father, Alexander Scott Clark, was born in 1815 and 
was a member of the Silver Grays Home Guards during the War 
of the Rebellion.  He married Isabella Jane Neeper, daughter 
of James Neeper, a native of Lancaster county, Penna.  He 
engaged in farming until he retired from active business.  
They had twelve children: Letitia Clark; Robert W Clark; 
James Clark; Lindley Clark, who is an engineer now in the 
interior of Africa, foreman of a diamond mine for a New York 
company; Laura J Clark; Harry S Clark; and Anna B Clark.  
    Dr Clark was born in Lancaster county, Penna, August 2, 
1848, educated in the schools of the same county and 
Chestnut Level Academy.  He prepared himself to enter 
LaFayette College, but was prevented on account of failing 
health.  He read medicine with Dr A M McMillen at Lebanon, 
Ohio; graduated in medical department at Ann Arbor, 
Michigan; and at the University of Pennsylvania in 1872.  He 
went to Winfield and practiced about two years when he came 
to Dunbar in 1873 where he has since resided.  
    In 1886 he married Ellen N Schell of Somerset, Somerset 
county, Penna, daughter of J J Schell, a retired banker of 
Somerset.  They have one child: Robert W Clark.  
    Dr Clark is a member of the Fayette County Medical 
Association, of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, and 
has twice served as a delegate to the State Medical 
Association.  He is a member of the Knights Templar, of the 
Masonic order, of the Royal Arcanum, and Jr O of A M.  Dr 
Clark is the nominee of his party, the republicans, for 
coroner of the county; for the office he is eminently 
qualified.  He is esteemed very highly as a gentleman, 
physician and surgeon by the people who know him.  

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