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Biographies
Loran
Clark, Sr.
Member
of the firm of Loran Clark & Co., was born in Franklin County, Vermont, in
1830, living there until ten years old, when his parents moved to Waukesha
County, Wisconsin; he remained
in Wisconsin engaged in farming with his father until he attained his majority;
in 1859, he went to Colorado, engaged in mining which he followed until 1862,
when he went to Nevada, engaging in the same business until 1868, when he
returned to Colorado.
He there
engaged in stock raising until the fall of 1871; he then went to Nebraska, locating in Boone
County where Albion,
county seat of that county, is now situated.
For
several years he lived on his homestead, on a portion of which the town of
Albion now stands, it being laid out by him in 1872.
In
the fall of the next year, he engaged in merchandising, opening the first store
in Albion, and for four years his was the only store in the town.
Then
for one year he was associated with Ed. S. Connelly in the practice of law; in
1874, he was elected Representative of the then Thirteenth District to the
State Legislature, and was re-elected in 1876; he has been a member of the Republican
party since its organization, and is one of the most prominent representatives
of that party in Nebraska.
In the
spring of 1879, he was appointed to the Revenue Service, and was assigned to
the cities of New York and Philadelphia for one year, he was then transferred
to the West, having charge of all the Territories west of the Missouri River to
the eastern line of Oregon and Washington Territory, and north of Utah and
Nevada, and including Kansas and Colorado.
He
was married at Columbus, Nebraska, in 1872, to Mrs. Elizabeth B. Rice, who is a
native of Ohio.
He
is a prominent Mason and member of Mt. Calvary Commandery No. 1, Omaha,
Nebraska.
Mr.
Clark has done much for the development and advancement of Boone County,
expending his time and money to that end, and with a liberal hand.
Albion
owes much of her prosperity and rapid growth to him.
History
of Nebraska 1882
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