From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
publ. 1912, Page 1388-1389
 
JOHN D. CLARK.  One of the most progressive and up-to-date young farmers of 
the western part of Walworth county is John D. CLARK, of Richmond township, 
and to him the future holds much of promise, for he believes in doing well 
whatever he undertakes and he has started out by making the Golden Rule a 
factor in his intercourse and relations with his fellow men, both in business 
and social life.  Idleness and indolence seem to be entirely foreign to his 
nature and he refuses to permit obstacles to thwart him from his course.
 
Mr. CLARK was born on the old homestead in this township, March 25, 1879.  He 
is the son of Benajah and Sylvia (STORMES) CLARK, the father born in New York 
August 2, 1833, and the mother was born in New York on July 20, 1841.  Benajah 
CLARK grew up in Wisconsin, having come to Johnstown, Rock county, with his 
parents, John and Martha (TUBBS) CLARK, who settled on a farm there, but later 
came to Walworth county and in 1861 built the house on the farm where the 
immediate subject of this sketch now lives and here these parents both died, 
the father on April 11, 1885, and the mother on June 29, 1897.  Benajah CLARK 
was educated in the pubic schools of New York and Rock county, Wisconsin, and 
at Beloit College.  He took up farming when a young man and made it his life 
work, meeting with pronounced success all along the line.  He and his father 
owned two hundred and forty acres and he is now the owner of a good farm of 
one hundred and twenty-five acres, and he now lives in Corliss, Wisconsin.  
His family consisted of four children, three of whom are living, namely: 
Nellie M., born September 14, 1863, died on October 4, 1865; Dr. William G., 
of Marmette, Wisconsin, born October 6, 1868, was married September 14, 1898, 
to Katie KILLAM, of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin; Martha B. was born October 3, 1871, 
and on April 13, 1898, she married Don C. WORTHINGTON, of Corliss, Wisconsin; 
John D., of this sketch.
 
Benajah CLARK was a Republican in politics.  He was a soldier in the Union 
army, having enlisted in Company D, Forty-ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 
February 14, 1865, and served until the close of the war, as first corporal.
 
John D. CLARK was reared on the home farm and when a boy he assisted with the 
general work about the place and he received his education in the district 
schools and at Milton College, later attending the University of Wisconsin, 
graduating from the agricultural department.  He has devoted his life to 
farming, and, being well educated in his chosen line and a close observer by 
nature, he is forging rapidly to the front.  He is making a specialty of 
breeding Guernsey cattle, and his fine stock is greatly admired by all.  
Politically, he is a Republican and he has been justice of the peace, also 
side supervisor, filling the positions with credit to himself and to the 
satisfaction of all concerned.
 
Mr. CLARK was married on October 11, 1905, to Maud C. ROSENCRANS, of 
Whitewater, Wisconsin, who was born on November 6, 1885, the daughter of Frank 
and Ella (DeATHEY) ROSECRANS, a highly respected family of Delavan.  One son 
has been born to the subject and wife, Donald Walter, whose birth occurred on 
August 5, 1906.
 
Submitted by Carol