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LEANDER CLARK was born in Wakeman, Huron county, Ohio, July 17, 1823; he died at Toledo, Iowa, December 22, 1910. He attended the schools of his native county and completed his education at Oberlin College. He removed to Wisconsin in 1846, and emigrated to California in 1849, engaging in mining, packing and trading in northern California until 1852. He returned and settled in Tama county, Iowa, in 1854. He was elected county judge in 1857, and changed his residence to Toledo. He was a member of the Ninth, Ninth Extra and Eleventh General Assemblies. He enlisted in August, 1862, in the Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry, and was elected Captain of Co. E. He served nearly three years and was wounded at the battle of Champion Hill, Miss. He was promoted to Major, and a short time before his discharge to Lieutenant Colonel. He was agent for the Sac and Fox Indians in Iowa from 1866 to 1872. He acquired large land interests and other holdings. He was an organizer and promoter of many of the best enterprises of his home city and county, his greatest service perhaps being an endowment of fifty thousand dollars to Western College, Toledo, Iowa, afterward named Leander Clark College in honor of him.