Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 755-756 [Caldwell]

     CHARLES J. CLARK, at present occupying the position of mailing
clerk in the postoffice at Paducah, Kentucky, was born in Florence,
Kentucky, December 19, 1869, a son of Captain W. C. and Viola
(Jones) Clark.  Captain Clark, who is of Irish lineage, was born in
Orange county, Virginia, in 1831.  In 1857 he came to Paducah,
Kentucky, and in the following year was married.  By this union
there were the following children: Mattie, Millie, Cora, Bettie,
Maggie, Katie, Ellen, John and Charles J.
     Captain Clark in early life had chosen the trade of carpenter
for his life work and had followed it many years before he engaged
in farming, which he followed till a few years ago, since which time
he has lived retired from active business relations.  At the
outbreak of the Civil war Captain Clark raised a company for the
Confederate army and became its captain, and served with gallantry
throughout the war.  He has always been active in politics, and is
an ardent and uncompromising Democrat, having done much for the
local success of that party.  He has held several public offices in
the gift of his party, was a member of the state legislature and
postmaster of Paducah.  To this latter office he was appointed in
1886, and continued acceptably to fill that office until 1896.
     It was during his father's incumbency of the position of
postmaster that Charles J. Clark rendered his first services in the
postoffice, and, owing to his marked fitness for such work, has been
continued in some department up to the present time.  As mailing
clerk he has won an enviable reputation for adeptness, and his
duties have been discharged with entire faithfulness and credit to
himself.

Clark Jones
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Orange-VA

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