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C. S. CLARK, farmer, P. 0. Fairfield, was born December 25, 1848, in Mt. Carmel, Wabash Co.. Ill., son of Chauncey Clark, a native of Connecticut, born May, 1812, in Middlesex County.  He farmed, and also learnod the ivory rule-maker's trade. In 1837, he moved to Chicago, where he kept the Batchelor Hotel for some years, and then moved to Wabash County, Ill., where he farmed, but is now practically retired from active life. His father was James  Clark. The mother of our subject was Jane M. (Gould) Clark, borin in Wabash County, 111. She was a daughter of Thomas and Margaret Gould, and is the mother of five children -Jane M. Redman, Helen Smith, Charles S., our subject; George W., who was killed in the battle of Atlanta, and Eliza Buckenham. Our subject was educated at Mt. Carmel, Ill. At the age of
twenty-one, he went to Olney, where he sold goods for A. B. Danniel about one year, then clerked in Vincennes for one and a half years for Adam Gimbel, and then, after farming almost one year at home, he went South to Mississippi and Tennessee. After he returned home, he made an extensive trip through the West, including. Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Montana.  Finally, after several years of rich experience, his roving spirit led him back once more to his dear old home, but after one year of home life and farminc, he sought the Pacific coast, and lived in the.States of California and Oregon, and the Territory of Washington. He retraced his steps homeward once more, and was married, April 21,1881, in Mt. Carmel, 111., to Miss Addie M. Townsend, born July 3,1860, in Mt. Carmel, Ill. She is a daughter oi William and Sarah J. (Ingersoll) Townsend, both nativeB of Mt. Carmel, Ill.   William
Townsend was formerly a pilot on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Our subject farmed one year in Wabash County, and then came to Wayne County,where he