Austin Clark

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Husband Austin Clark ¹

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           Born: 20 Jul 1854 - Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA 2
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         Father: Joseph Clark (1813-1885) 2 3
         Mother: Pauline Kelly (1819-      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Austin Clark

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He began his education in the public schools of his native borough, later attended Blairsville Academy and the State Normal School at Indiana, Pennsylvania, and taught school for several terms, serving as assistant principal of the Blairsville Academy. He left the teacher's profession to engage in the study of law. After passing the preliminary examination he registered in 1878 as a law student with his cousin, Silas M. Clark, of Indiana, who in 1882 became a justice of the Supreme court of the State. In 1879 Mr. Clark came to Kittanning, where he completed his legal course with James B. Neale, being admitted to the bar of Armstrong county Sept. 20, 1880. He at once entered upon practice, and with the exception of the period he was in the service of his country during the Spanish-American war continued to be actively engaged in professional work until January, 1912, when he suffered a stroke of paralysis, causing him to give up his practice and go to live with his brother, Joseph.
As an attorney Mr. Clark was one of the most successful of his day in Kittanning, establishing an extensive patronage among the most substantial people of the borough, and his reputation was well deserved. His studious attention to every case intrusted to his care, his ability in presenting the cause of his client at court, his fluency and logic in argument, and evident sincerity in everything he undertook, won him not only the confidence of his patrons, but the respectful attention of his fellow practitioners and the judges of the various courts where his work called him.
Politically Mr. Clark was a Democrat like his father, and a leader in local party circles for a number of years. He took an active part in the work of the party, and in 1888 was a delegate to the National convention at St. Louis, when Cleveland was nominated for president.
At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war Mr. Clark mustered Company G, 16th Pennsylvania Volunteers (Col. George C. Rickards), and was commissioned captain by Governor Hastings. He was mustered into the service in July, 1898, serving until the end of the war, and was mustered out Dec. 28, 1898. Returning to Kittanning he resumed legal practice.
Mr. Clark was entitled to membership in the Sons of the American Revolution, though he neglected to join that order. In fact, every war since the founding of the country found some member of the Clark family serving in one capacity or another. Fraternally he was a past exalted ruler of Kittanning Lodge, B. P. O. Elks. [HAC 1914, 971]

1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 970.

2 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 971.

3 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 413, 522.