Biography of John N. Clark, page 611.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

John N. Clark, farmer and stock-raiser, section 16, Franklin Township, was 
born in York County, Pa., May 26, 1822.  His father, David Clark, was born 
in Lancaster County, Pa., Dec. 13, 1799, and in the spring of 1846 moved to 
De Kalb County, Ind., and settled on section 17, Franklin Township, where he 
lived till 1875; them lived with our subject till his death, Sept. 8, 1879.  
John N. Clark moved to De Kalb County in the fall of 1846, and lived with his 
father till March, 1847, when he moved to the farm where he now lives.  He 
was the first settler on section 16.  He has cleared 200 acres of land, 130 
of which he owns.  In 1847, ’48 and ’49 he planted his corn without plowing 
the ground, chopping holes and dropping corn in them. He was married December, 
1843, in Stark County, Ohio, to Mary M. Hamman, daughter of Daniel Hamman, 
and early settler of De Kalb County.  To them were born nine children, six 
of whom are living---Levi, Martha A., Joanna, Olive , Fietta and Phila.  Mr. 
Clark owns 240 acres of valuable land, with a good residence and farm buildings.

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