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James Marsh Clark
Louisa County
James M. Clark was born December 8, 1810, in New York City. With his parents he moved to Indiana, where he graduated from the Covington law school and began practice. Removing from Indiana to Wisconsin Territory, in 1837 he was a delegate from Louisa County and vice president of the territorial convention. He was elected to the First and Second Legislative Assemblies of Iowa Territory and served as president of the Council in the extra session of the Second Legislative Assembly. He married Celestia M. Maxwell in 1839 in Henry County. In 1840 they moved to Wisconsin and settled in Sauk County where he was county judge for 10 years or more. After the close of the Civil War his family moved to Tennessee. Later the family moved to Greeley, Colorado. Clark actively participated in public affairs and was a man of education and ability, an active and useful member of the Council, and very popular. He died May 6, 1891.
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