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Show Clark Family Reunif F On Thursday ifteinoof evening at the City IvJHv,, Chuk Family met in honrtKjnfr c Patriaich Wm. Claik's eightyiV'l11 blithday. v About 5 o'clock 250 guests, tela-tives tela-tives and friends sat down to the banquet and partook of the good things which hud been prepared. It took two tables full length of tho Pavilion to seat tho company After tho banquet was over and tables cleared away, the following piogram was rendered: Piano Solo by Lulu Dorton. llemutks by Father Clark. Song by nine of his grand sons. Piographic.il sketch was read by 8. W. Itoss: Itccitatiou by Art Stewart Song by Lfzzio and Verlilian Uoruii. Pemai'ks by Unhop T. P. CiUler. Song by Bishop Lewis. Oringiual poem by Mrs. Owen Stewart. Itomai ks by Pil&t. A. J. Evans. Song by ilftewi of his gnuid-daughtci's. gnuid-daughtci's. f Pemarks by Bishop Andrew Fjeld. After the piogram was oVur dancing and u social time was Enjoyed En-joyed by all. Altho Brother Clark is eighty one yearn old he was joung once more surreundetl by his lai'ge family and many friends. m. Clark was lirn at "Worcestershire, "Wor-cestershire, England, .Inly 2(ith, 1825. He came to America Ua New Orleans in 18ll). Pemainul in St. Joe, Missouri, a shot t .lime. Catne to Utah 1852 and moved to Lehi lsov. 5th, i85iJ who! e ho has liujo-'resided.4 " . Bince",LHjmlng To Lehi he has followed farming and sheep raising, being one of the llrst in Lehi to go-into the sheep business. busi-ness. For several yoaw before he came to America he was a peddler in England buying and selling fruit and vegetables. Father Clark has had four wives. Sept. 2nd, 1818, in England he mart led Emily Xoles Bryant Sho died at St. Joe, Mo., Sept 3rd, 1850. He uftorwaids married Mrs. Jane Boss, who had tin ee children, James Ed., Stephen "Wm., and Sarah Elizabeth. She diod Sept. 21st, 1805. He married Juliet Zimmerman, by whom ho had two child, and Margaret Bioad-nuin, Bioad-nuin, who had three child. "Win. Clark was father of thirteen children child-ren with three stop children, making mak-ing sixteen in all, ninety-eight grand children, one hundred and twonty-iiiiio great grand children, counting the wives and husbands of his children, ho has a family of two hundred and eighty- seven. Ho was one of tho organizers of tho Utah Sugar Co., one of tho founders of the People's Co-op. store and now is Vice-President. Ho is a director of tho Lehi Com-meiclal Com-meiclal & Savings Bank, assisted in organizing and owns stock in tho Electric Licht & Power Co.. Pi ovo Woolen Mills, Z. O. M. I., etc. Ho went on a mission to England, Eng-land, was Counselor to Bishop Cutler in Lehi waul for ten years and has held many positions of trust in tho city during the past Coining to Lehi in 1853, Father Clark 'has watched its giowth and assisted in making Lehi what sho Is today. His declining years should indeed bo happy suriound-ed suriound-ed by his huge family and many friends. |