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Note: R.J. CLARK and family expect to move this week. Sullivan Review: 19 Apr 1894
R.J. CLARK, of Punxsutawney, spent Sunday in Lopez and was calling on Dushore friends Monday.
Sullivan Review: 20 Sept 1894
COMMEMORATIVE BHIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA- INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF CENTRE, CLEARFIELD, JEFFERSON AND CLARION CHICAGO - J. H. BEERS & CO - 1898 Richard James Clark, one of the leading lumber dealers of this section of the State, is a member of the well-known firm of Clark, Kizer & Kipp, whose lumber mills at Cortez, Jefferson County, are models of equipment. They do a extensive business, employing from 150 to 200 men, turning out 80,000 feet of lumber per day. About eight miles of railroad connect their plant with the P.& N.W.R.R. The firms was organized in December, 1893, when they purchassed 64,000 acres of timber land in Jefferson county, in McCalmont and Oliver townships, at a cost of $200,000.00. The first mill built by them burned down July 20, 1894, three weeks after it was put in operation, causing a loss of $15,000; but they rebuilt it and resumed work in November of the same year. The mill is under the able management of R. J. Clark, the subject of this sketch; a brother, D. H. Clark, attends to the outside work; G. W. Kipp manages the office; and E. F. Kizer has charge of the firm's business at Towanda, Pennsylvania. Our subject is of Irish parents. His father Luke Clark, came from the Emerald Isle in early manhood; and became a successful agriculturist in Rockland Township, Sullivan Co., NY. He was a man of quiet disposition, but his excellent qualities gave him great influence in his community. He was married three times. His first wife, Ellen King, departed this life November 2, 1858, at the age of thirty years, and in 1859 he was married in New York City to Miss Julia Keough, a native of Ireland, and a devout Catholic. She died in September, 1869, aged forty years and was buried at Liberty, Sullivan Co., N.Y. where her husband's remains also repose, his death having occurred September 10, 1894, at the age of seventy. His third wife, formerly Mrs. Catherine Ragen, survives him and occupies the old homestead. There were two children by the first union: John, who died in infancy; and Daniel H., who is mentioned above. Two children were born of the second marriage; Richard J., our subject; and Matthew J., who is employed by the company as a contractor. Of the five children of the third union, Delia, Michael and Elizabeth are living at the old home; Franklin is in the employ of the company; and Lawrence is still at home. Richard J. Clark was born July 23, 1861, in Sullivan County, NY and was reared there as a farmer boy. At eighteen he came to this State, and for thirteen years followed lumbering in Sullivan county as a contractor for different parties. From 1888 to 1893 he was in mercantile business in Lopez, Penn., in partnership with his brother Daniel H., under the firm name of Clark Bros., and since leaving that place they have been interested in the lumber business at Cortez. He is not identified with any Church, but inclines toward the Catholic faith, of which his parents were devout followers. He belongs to the Masonic order, and is a Knight Templar. In politics he is a stanch Democrat, as are all his family, but he has never taken an active interest in the details of the party work. On November 29, 1882, he was married at Dushore, Penn., to Miss Julia E. McDonald, and five children, Julia, May, John, Agnes and Leo, brighten their home. The McDonald family is of English origin. Mrs. Clark's parental grandfather, Andrew McDonald, coming from the old country in 1834, accompanied by his wife, Mary Hayden, a native of Ireland, and their son, John. He settled upon a tract of farming land near Dushore, Penn., and was killed by a falling tree while clearing the place. His wife attained the advanced age of eighty-seven, and the remains of both now rest in the cemetery at Dushore. Their only child, John McDonald, was born in England in 1830, and, coming to the new home in Pennsylvania at the age of four, was reared to manhod and engaged first in farming and later in mining. He is a Roman Catholic in religious belief, and in political faith he is a sound Democrat. He was married in Sullivan County to Miss Julia Sheridan, who was born in Connecticut in 1837, the daughter of John and Catherine (Farrell) Sheridan, of Ireland, who came to this country early in life and died in Wilkes Barre, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald, who now reside in Bernice, Sullivan County, have reared a large family of children: Andrew is a molder at Towanda, Penn.; Catherine married Frank Farrell of Dushore, a manufacturer of temperance drinks; Mary, who was born September 24, 1858, married Daniel H. Clark, our subject's brother; Julie E., who was born August 18, 1863, is the wife of our subject; Prudence married John Daly, a hotel keeper at Bernice; Clara is a bookkeeper for the firm of Clark, Kizer & Kipp; Janey married Thomas Fitzgerald, a telegraph operator at Bernice; and Mildred, Florence and Lawrence are still at home.
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