Born August 31, 1839 in Haverhill, Grafton, New Hampshire. He died in West Plains, Howell, Mo. His parents were Daniel Clark (1812) and Harriet Newell Jones (1813). He was married to Matilda Dinsmoor born in Ohio. They both removed to Wisconsin in early manhood and womanhood and there their marriage occurred. George F. Clark served throughout the Civil war as a member of the Fourth Wisconsin Mounted Infantry and was wounded in the left leg in the battle of Fort Hudson. He was mustered out at Washington with the rank of captain. Following the restoration of peace he returned to Wisconsin, but later removed with his family to Kansas, whence, in 1883, he came to Adair county, Iowa and took up abode on the farm. He represented his district in the Iowa legislature and for a good many years was surveyor of Adair county. In the fall of 1905 he and his wife went to North Dakota and lived there four years where he proved a claim which he later sold. , Subsequently removing to West Plains, Missouri, where they have a lovely home among the Ozark mountains.