A Biography of Ezra Thompson Clark

Ezra Clark, page 001

THE LIFE OF EZRA T. CLARK is closely related to the early history of the L.D.S. Church and to the develop- ment of the State of Utah. He was one of her pioneers. . His parents, Timothy Baldwin and Polly Keeler Clark, were also pioneers, and we find them always on the out- skirts of civilization. They were originally from the State of Connecticut. Five generations of Clarks lived in that state since the immigration of George Clark from England. The exact date of George Clark's immigration is not at present definitely ascertained, though the records show that he settled in Milford, Connecticut, in 1639. The records also show that the Clarks were on the committee which purchased land from the Indians on which to found the present city of New Milford, Connecticut. From the will of George Clark we know that he was a land holder in Herd- fordshire, England. Successive generations from George Clark to Ezra T. Clark are: Samuel, John, John II, Timothy, and Ezra. When Ezra, the tenth child of Timothy and Polly Keeler Clark was born November 23, 1823, they were living at Lawrence, now called Lawrenceville, in the `southern part of the state of Illinois. Lawrenceville is directly west of Madison, Indiana, where William 0. Clark, a brother of I