Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry 
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882.  
Cass County.

J.K. Clark, farmer; P. O. Bluff Springs; was born in Monroe 
Precinct, this county, then Morgan County, May 14, 1828, and is a 
son of Thomas C. and Julia Ann (King) Clark.  Thomas C. Clark was 
born in Pennsylvania, Feb. 24, 1785; was married in Barren County, 
Ky., April 23, 1807, to Julia Ann King, who was born in Green 
County, Tenn., Oct. 15, 1790.  They moved to Tennessee, where they 
lived seventeen years, then came to Illinois, and, after several 
changes of location, located, in 1846, at Bluff Springs, where 
they died; he, Aug.16, 1852; she, Aug. 2, 1866; of their thirteen 
children, four sons and five daughters grew to maturity, of whom 
three sons and three daughters are living, all in this county.  
The subject of this sketch attended school near Mount Pleasant, 
Ia., for about four years, afterward attending the schools of this 
county some time.  He first taught school for some time, and then 
devoted his attention to farming, which occupation he has since 
pursued.  Mr. Clark was, for many years, Road Supervisor, and 
School Director; he is a Democrat.

Clark King 
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Morgan-IL PA Barren-KY Green-TN IA