Thomas Baker Clark and Ada Lucinda Knapp

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Husband Thomas Baker Clark ^{1 2}

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           Born: 18 Sep 1839 - Plaingrove Twp, Lawrence Co, PA 1
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           Died: 21 Jan 1907 - Bradford, McKean Co, PA 1
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         Father: Thomas Marquis Clark (1813/1814-1851) 1 2
         Mother: Rebecca McCune (1818-1910) 1 2

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       Marriage: 19 Oct 1881 2

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Wife Ada Lucinda Knapp ^{2 3}

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           Born: 20 May 1856 3
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         Father: Israel A. Knapp (1824-1908) 3
         Mother: Sarepta Coburn Wilkins (1831-1892) 3

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Children

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1 M Thomas Roy Clark ^{2 3}

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           Born: 28 Jun 1882 - Bradford, McKean Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Nellie Turner Brown (1884-      ) 4
           Marr: 1905 4

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2 F Ethel May Clark ³

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            AKA: Ethel C. Clark 5
           Born: 10 Aug 1884 - Bradford, McKean Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Louis E. Koch (1881-      ) 5
           Marr: 1 Jun 1910 3

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Baker Clark

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After leaving school at the age of sixteen he became a clerk in a store in Butler County, Pennsylvania, and after several years became joint proprietor of a store in Fairview, Butler County. Later he closed out his mercantile business in Fairview and spent some time in the insurance business in Cleveland, Ohio, after which he returned to Butler County, where he engaged in the oil business. He followed the trend of discovery in the oil fields and in 1878 located in Bradford, which was his home until his death.
During the many years of strife incidental to the great battle between the large oil interests and the independent producers, he was active on the side of the independents, and as vice-president of the independent movement, worked early and late for the organization of the producers. For twelve years he served the city of Bradford as member of the board of water commissioners. He served a greater part of this time as chairman of the board. In politics he was always a regular Republican, serving for many years as county chairman for McKean County, and for one term occupied the office of county treasurer. He was president of the Lewis Run Manufacturing Company engaged in the manufacture of wood alcohol, acetate of lime, and charcoal; president of the National Association of Wood Alcohol Manufacturers; director of the Manufacturers' Charcoal Company; director of the Bradford National Bank; also a member of the Merchants' Club of Bradford, and of the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 486.

2 Jeff McBride, Thomas Armstrong in Path Valley (Laurel, Md: Web-published, 2012).

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 487.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 488.

5 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 442.