My Genealogy Hound

LEWIS CLARK, farmer, post office Shousetown, was born on the farm where he now resides and owns, March 1, 1835, a grandson of James and Mary (Gray) Clark. His father, James Clark, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in December, 1798. In 1819 he immigrated to Montreal, Canada, soon thereafter locating in Pittsburgh, and in 1827 he purchased the homestead in Moon township, where he died May 23, 1874. He married, in 1830, Ellen Stoddard, who was born five miles west of Pittsburgh, a daughter of James and Nancy (Riley) Stoddard, Presbyterians and natives of Ireland. James Clark and wife had six children: Nancy, wife of Samuel Davidson, in Moon township; James, married to Elizabeth Scott, and residing in Clark county, Iowa; Lewis; Mary, wife of Joseph McKnight, residing in Rochester, Beaver county, Pa.; Margaret, married to John McCleaster, a merchant of Huntsville, Ohio, and Emily, who resides with her brother Lewis. The subject of this memoir visited, in 1869, England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and while in Ireland saw the house in County Tyrone where his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were born. In February, 1877, he made a trip to Liverpool and London, and, joining the World Tourist party, went to Paris (and other parts of France), Naples, Rome, Alexandria, Cairo, Old Cairo, through the Suez canal, to Port Said, Jaffa, Jerusalem and vicinity, Bethlehem, Jericho and the Dead sea; bathed in the waters of Jordan, visited the mummy-pits, obelisks and catacombs, Pompey’s Pillar, Cleopatra’s Needle, and ascended the great pyramid of Cheops; also visited the celebrated Greek convent near Saba, the sunken city of Memphis, the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii and other points of interest. In 1878 Mr. Clark visited New Orleans, thence through the West Indies to New York, and in 1885 attended the World’s Exposition at New Orleans.