Nevada Genealogy Trails Elko County Lincoln G. Clark Biography

LINCOLN GRANT CLARK, who is creditably and efficiently filling the office of sheriff of Elko county, has been a resident of Nevada over ten years, and has been engaged in several lines of enterprise during that time. He is a son of one of the esteemed veterans of the Civil war, and his ancestry on the parternal side is Scotch and on the maternal side Welsh. His parents, both of whom are still spared to him, are Moses and Elizabeth (James) Clark, both of whom were born in Shelbyville, Indiana. Moses Clark followed farming up to the breaking out of the Civil war, and he then enlisted from Iowa, to which state he had removed, in the Thirty-fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He was in the Union Army of the Potomac for four years and six months, and gave his full meed of service on many hard-fought battlefields. After the war he was elected and served eight years as recorder of Warren county, Iowa, and during the greater part of his career has been engaged in the insurance business. He and his wife are still living in Iowa, and are highly respected people. They were the parents of seven children, three sons and four daughters, and three are residents of Nevada, Lulu being a teacher in the public schools and George residing in Elko.

Lincoln Grant Clark, who was given his cognomens through his father's great admiration for the two conspicuous figures of the Civil war, was born in Warren county, Iowa, November 8, 1867. He was educated in the public schools and reared to the age of twenty-three in his native state, and then came to Nevada. At first he was a cowboy in the employ of the "seventy-one outfit," with headquarters nine miles above Halleck, and after having had a thorough experience in that work conducted a hotel at Wells for some time. He has been a life-long Republican, and his popularity among the people of the county was shown by his election to the office of sheriff of Elko county in November, 1902, which responsible position he is now filling to the utmost satisfaction of all concerned. He has much talent in dealing with men, and his personal worth and energy insure him a prosperous career in the future.

November 16, 1898. Mr. Clark married Miss Rose McMullen, and they have two children, both born in Elko county, namely: James Moses and Leah Glenn. Mrs. Clark is a member of the Presbyterian church and she affiliates with the Knights of Pythias, and is highly respected in the order and in the entire community.