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LEVI CLARK, farmer; P. O. Tippecanoe City. He is one of the few remaining early native-born citizens of Monroe Township; he is the son of John Clark, prominently mentioned in the township history; he was born Nov. 22, 1818, about one and a half miles northwest of Tippecanoe; he is the oldest of a family of ten, four of whom are dead; the scenes of his boyhood and youth were in this vicinity, where his whole life has been passed; his education was obtained under the difficulties of pioneer times; reared on a farm, he has always made farming his principal occupation; he served an apprenticeship at the tanner’s trade, but never followed the business; he located on the present site of the township, with his parents, in December, 1839, and consequently has had a residence here coeval with the town; under the gold excitement, Mr. Clark, made a trip to California in 1852, covering the distance from the Missouri River in the remarkably short time of sixty-two traveling days; he located in Georgetown, Eldorado Co., and engaged in mining with fair success, returning by the Panama route and New Orleans, consuming fourteen months on the entire trip; he has a particular fondness for hunting, and makes his annual trips to the hunting grounds of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, etc., being regarded an expert and successful hunter. Formerly an “old-line Whig,” casting his first vote for Gen. Harrison in 1840, his political views naturally fell in with the Republican party, with which he has always been identified. He was married, Feb. 13, 1840, to Clarinda Ramsey, of this county, who was born in Elizabeth Township in 1821, and is the daughter of Allen and Hannah Ramsey, early pioneers; of their family of six sons and five daughters, three sons and three daughters are dead, some dying in infancy.