born to Joseph Addison Clark and Eunice Hadley

brother to Solon H, William, Worth, Mary Louise, Barzillai Worth, Chase Addison

husband of Evelyn or Eveline Rosenberger

father of

Solon B, Lois, Donald A and Dorothy

Idaho, Deaths and Burials, 1907-1965

name: Nathan H. Clark

gender: Male

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death date: 16 Jan 1909

death place: Boise, Ada, Idaho

age: 40

birth date: 1869

birthplace: Indiana

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race: White

marital status: Married

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indexing project (batch) number: B73336-2

system origin: Idaho-EASy

source film number: 1509774

reference number: p 31 cn 225

Obituary - Nathan Hadley Clark - Idaho Register 1909-01-19 Page 1

Nathan H. Clark, a prominent citizen of Idaho and formerly of Idaho falls, died at his home in Boise on Saturday last, January 16, of lung trouble.

Poor Nate. His brave, cheerful spirit has departed and all that remains of this once energetic man arrived from Boise today and was laid to rest in the family plot in Rose Hill cemetery. "Remember," he said to his family and mother a short time before his death, "that whether I stay with you or leave you, it's all right." And when the end came, he faced it with the same cheerful readiness that he had faced everything else during his life.

N. H. Clark lacked a few months of being forty years of age, and while according to the usual reckoning of man's existence he should now be in his prime, yet he has lived more in the few short years allotted him than many who reach three score years and ten. The writer of this remembers hearing his father the late Joseph A. Clark tell of a deer hunt taken by the two up on South Fork when Nate was quite a boy. They struck hunting grounds on one of the big mountains and as soon as camp was pitched Nate started out and presently Mr. Clark did likewise. The father hunted in various places for some time but no matter where he went the tracks in the snow showed that someone had preceded him. In short Nate had visited every clump of bushes on the old mountain where there was a possibility of a deer. This is a pretty clear conception of his makeup. He never waited for others to break the trail. He has been a trail breaker most his life in business, in the profession of law, in politics. His life history shows a continuous rise from clerk to proprietor, from a law school graduate to the attorney for one of the biggest mining corporations in the state, from county attorney to state senator and a leader in the Ninth session of the Idaho Legislature.

Mr. Clark was born at Amo Hendricks County Indiana and came to Idaho Falls (than Eagle Rock) in 1885 being about sixteen years of age. After serving a clerkship in the big mercantile establishment of Anderson Bros. he became a partner. Later he sold his interests and together with Ed. Fanning started the Clark & Fanning store which still bears the name. In the meantime, he had read more or less of law and in 1896 took a special course in the law school at Ann Arbor and afterwards was admitted to practice in the federal court and the district and supreme courts of Idaho. He was elected attorney of Bingham County in 1898. He took a decided interest in politics and became one of the recognized leaders of the democratic party. Mr. Clark though never identifying himself with the prohibition party was a devout prohibitionist, and on all local questions was found fighting the saloon. When the White Knob Mining Company commenced operations and laid out the townsite of Mackay. Mr. Clark was tendered and accepted the position of company attorney. The company's plan was to make Mackay a strictly "dry town" and no doubt Mr. Clark's reputation gained through fighting the saloons had much to do with his being offered the lucrative position as attorney for the company, a position he continued to hold indirectly until the time of this death. About two years ago Mr. Clark purchased a beautiful home in Boise and took up his residence there. He is survived by his wife and three children - his son Solon, and two daughters, Lois and Dorothy: four brothers, D. Worth Clark of Pocatello, William and Chase Clark of Mackay, Barzilla Clark, Mrs. W. H. Holden, a sister and Mrs. Joseph A. Clark, his mother, all of this city.

Public funeral services were held over the remains at Boise, Monday. This morning at 10 o'clock, short through impressive services were held in this city at the Presbyterian church conducted by Rev. Jones. The pallbearers were members of the local K. of P. order of which the deceased was a charter member.

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