Marshall County, West Virginia - Biography of Hezekiah Clark.

 
From: Genealogical & Personal History of the Upper Monongalia Valley,
West Virginia, by Bernard L. Butcher, 1912.

Submitted by Linda Fluharty.

HEZEKIAH CLARK

     CLARK - This is an old and honored Virginia family of Marshall county,
where Hezekiah Clark was born at about the close of the Revolutionary period.
He operated an old-fashioned horse mill for grain grinding, and by its crude
machinery was killed.  He married and reared children, including a son Joseph
Clark.
     (II) Joseph, son of Hezekiah Clark, was born in Marshall county, Virginia
(now West Virginia), in 1820, and died in 1860.  He was by occupation a farmer,
and in church faith a Wesleyan Methodist.  Politically he was a Whig and a
strong Abolitionist.  He married Elizabeth Clouston for his first wife.  Children:
Jane, Margaret A., William H., Asa (deceased), and Lucinda.  After the death of
the first wife, Mr. Clark married Mary Ann Cox, daughter of Joseph Cox.  Children:
Jason, of whom later mention will be made; Francis M., Thomas A., Absalom,
deceased; Hannah, Phebe A. The mother died March 4, 1909.
     (III) Jason, son of Joseph and Mary Ann (Cox) Clark, was born in Marshall
county, West Virginia, November 19, 1850.  He secured his education in the common
schools and at Waynesburg College.  He farmed summers and taught school winters for
quite a period.  in 1876 he was a clerk in a Grange (Patrons of Husbandry) store,
continuing there a year and a half, when he purchased the store from the Grange
Company and conducted it two years, then sold and went to St. Joseph, Missouri,
where he engaged in a soap factory for one year, but then sold out and went to
railroading.  Having had enough of the West, he returned to his old home and
followed farm life a short time, and then engaged in clerking in a general store,
where he remained until February, 1890, when he went to McKeesport, Pennsylvania,
and there engaged in the flour and feed business under the firm name of Loudenslager
& Co.  Here he remained four and a half years, then sold his interest in the business
and went to Morgantown, West Virginia.  In August, 1894, he engaged in the flour and
feed trade at Morgantown, continuing until 1901, when he retired.  He is a member
of the Christian church, of the Odd Fellows, Heptasophs, No. 31, of McKeesport, and
Elks Lodge No 411, of Morgantown.
     He married, October 19, 1887, Virginia A. Wolvington, daughter of William
Wolvington.  Children:  Frederick H., who died in infancy; Raymond Earl, born in
McKeesport, Pennsylvania, in 1891.