NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 G. H. Clark George H. Clark has been an active representative of the legal profession in Ida county during the past three decades and since July, 1921, has been engaged in practice at Ida Grove in association with his son and namesake under the firm style of Clark & Clark. His birth occurred in Dewtt, Iowa, on the 6th of December, 1869, his parents being Adoniram J. and Matilda (Bell) Clark, the former born in Stark county, Ohio, February 1, 1837, and the latter at Greensburg, Ohio, in August, 1842. The ancestry in both the paternal and maternal lines is traced to early colonial settlers in the territory of the original thirteen colonies. Adoniram J. Clark, the father of George H. Clark of this review, passed away on the 31st of October, 1921, while the mother departed this life in December, 1907. In the acquirement of an education George H. Clark attended public school in his native city from 1874 until 1887, while the two succeeding years were spent in the law department of the University of Iowa. From 1890 until 1896 inclusive he lived at Everett, Washington, engaging in timber crusing and in general law practice. During the last two years of his residence, there, from 1894 until 1896, he served as police judge. Returning to the Hawkeye state, he devoted his attention to the practice of law at Battle Creek for a period of eleven years or until 1907, when he took up his permanent abode at Ida Grove. here he has continued in general law practice to the present time and since the 1st of July, 1921, has been in partnership with his son, George H. Clark, Jr., under the firm name of Clark & Clark. He has long enjoyed an enviable reputation as an attorney of broad legal learning and pronounced analytical powers and is accorded a clientage of extensive and gratifying proportions. On the 14th of June, 1894, at Everett, Washington, Mr. Clark was united in marriage to Elizabeth Reicheneker, who was born at Golden, Colorado, July 24, 1874, and whose parents are Mr. and Mrs. William C. Reicheneker, residents of Berkeley, California. She has membership in the P. E. O. and the Federation of Women's Clubs. By her marriage she has two sons: George H. Clark Jr., who married Ferne R. Jones and makes his home in Ida Grove, Iowa; and Bruce R. Clark, also residing in Ida Grove. Politically Mr. Clark is a staunch republican. He filled the office of mayor of Battle Creek from 1904 until 1907, giving the city a businesslike and beneficial administration characterized by many measures of progress, reform and improvement. He belongs to the Commercial Club and the Kiwanis Club of Ida Grove. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while his religious faith is that of the Baptist church. Mr. Clark is friendly and affable in his social relations, is public spirited in his interest in the welfare of his community and liberal in his attitude towards charitable and benevolent objects, so that he has gained an enviable place in the estimation of all who know him. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/