NORTHWESTERN IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME II 1804-1926 G. H. Clark, Jr. George Harold Clark, Jr., member of the law firm of Clark & Clark, well known attorneys of Ida Grove, with offices in the First National Bank building, is now serving for the third term as county attorney of Ida county. he was born at Everett, Washington, on the 11th of June, 1895, a son of Georg H. and Elizabeth (Reichenekeer) Clark, the former born at Dewitt, Iowa, December 6, 1869, while the birth of the latter occurred at Golden, Colorado, July 24, 1874. The ancestral record of the family in both the paternal and maternal lines goes back to the original colonial settlements in America. George H. Clark, Jr., received his early education as a public school pupil at Battle Creek, Iowa, where he completed the work of the first to fifth grades inclusive. He took up the studies of the sixth grade in a public school at Ida Grove and there continued his education until graduated from high school. From September, 1814, until May, 1917, he attended Stanford University of California for prelegal work and thereafter devoted the period between June, 1917, and September, 1920, to the study of law in the same institution. He completed his preparation for the legal profession in the state University of Iowa, which he attended from September, 1920, until June, 1921. Mr. Clark was but two years of age when his parents removed from Everett, Washington, to Battle Creek, Iowa, where the family home was maintained for a decade, at the end of which time, in 1907, it was permanently established at Ida Grove. It was on the 1st of July, 1921, that he there joined his father in law practice as junior member of the firm of Clark & Clark, and he has already become widely recognized as a young attorney of marked ability in the work of the courts. He has shown himself well grounded in the basic principles of jurisprudence, is faithful to his clients and hold to the highest ethical standards of the profession. He has made a most commendable record in the position of county attorney of Ida county, for which office he was nominated and elected in 1922, 1924, and 1926, and in which he has served continuously since January 1, 1923. At Ida Grove, Iowa, on the 9th of June, 1924, Mr. Clark was married to Ferne Rosalia Jones, whose birth occurred at Charter Oak, Iowa, March 30, 1903, her parents being Frank M. and Phila Belle (Kepford) Jones. The father, who was born at Iowa City, Iowa, May 29, 1870, is assistant manager of the Green Bay Lumber Company at Indianola, this state. The mother, born at Oxford, Iowa, July 31, 1872, departed this life on the 3d of November, 1919. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Clark, Jr., are the parents of a daughter, Shirley Elizabeth, born January 17, 1926. The wife and mother has membership in the Eastern Star, the Federation of Woman's Clubs and the Delphian Society. Since age conferred upon him the right of franchise Mr. Clark has supported the men and measures of the republican party, believing that its principles are most conducive to good government. His military record shows service between July 14, 1917, the date of his voluntary enlistment, and December 27, 1918, the date of his honorable discharge. During the months from July, 1917, to May, 1918, he served successively as private, corporal and sergeant in the One Hundred and Ninth Ammunition Train at Deming, New Mexico. From May until August, 1918, he served with the Field Artillery Officers' Training School and from the latter date until December, 1918, was second lieutenant of United States Field Artillery, in Battery D, Fiftieth Field Artillery, at Camp Bowie, Tesas, and Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The religious faith of Mr. Clark is indicated by his membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, while in fraternal circles he is known as a Knight Templar Mason who has also attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and has crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Greek letter society Alpha Delta Phi an to Phi Alpha Delta, a professional fraternity. His name is likewise on the membership rolls of the Commercial Club, the Kiwanis Club, the American Legion and the Ida Grove Golf and County Club, all of Ida Grove, and of the Izaak Walton League of America. 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/