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JOSEPHUS H. CLARK, well known to the citizens of Jamestown, for a number of years as president of the Board of Education, was born in Worcester county, Massachusetts, December 1, 1819. He attended the common schools of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and in 1830 removed to Chautauqua county, to the town of Carroll. Five years later he came to Jamestown and learned the trade of foundryman, at which he worked for about eight years as a day workman. In 1851 he purchased the foundry on Fourth street and has run it, and a machine-shop in connection with it ever since, employing some fifteen men. July 13, 1851, he married Jane Marsh, a daughter of Moses Marsh, formerly of Sutton, Massachusetts. Josephus H. Clark is an active member of the Republican party in Jamestown, and has served as one of the Board of village trustees, of which board he was president. For twenty-one years he had been prominently connected with the educational interests of Jamestown, and for fifteen years has been president of the Board of education. He attends the Baptist church and has been one of the trustees of that church for over thirty years.