NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11176 ANDERSON CO – CHAMP CLARK – Clark, Tilden, Hayes, #11176. <http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.alabama.counties.pike/mb.ashx>Pike County <http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri/mb.ashx>Missouri History, Des Moines, <http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa/mb.ashx>Iowa, <http://www.ancestry.com/facts/mills-family-history.ashx>Mills and Company, 1883, pp 782-3. Champ Clark, attorney at law, was born on the seventh day of March, 1850, near Lawrenceburg, Anderson county, Kentucky. He worked on a farm as a hired hand until he was fifteen years old, going to school when he could, and studying his books at all odd hours; he then clerked in a store, taught country school and worked on a farm by turns until the fall of 1867, when he entered Kentucky University at Lexington, remaining until the fall of 1870, teaching school during vacation to obtain means of subsistence. From December, 18780, to July, 1872, he taught school. September, 1872, he entered Bethany College, West Virginia, from which institution he graduated June, 1873, taking the highest honors in a large class. He was immediately after this elected president of Marshall College, a State Normal School located at Huntington, West Virginia, which position he held one year and then resigned it to attend the Cincinnati Law School, from which he graduated at the head of his class in April, 1875. Having spent a few months in the Western country, he located at Louisiana, Missouri, in July, 1875, taught the high school one year, and has since practiced law in the county at Louisiana until December, 1880, and in Bowling Green since. Mr. Clark edited a daily newspaper during the Tilden-Hayes campaign, and edited the Riverside Press in 1879-80. He was city attorney of Louisiana for over two years and of Bowling Green for nearly a year. He was Hancock Elector for the Thirteenth Congressional District in 1880, and stumped his own district and other portions of Missouri. In 1878 he received the Democratic nomination for the legislature in the eastern district of the county, but was defeated by a combination of the Greenback and Republican parties. Mr. Clark is a young man with a bright future before him, and with abilities that qualify him for the best positions in the gift of the people, and in due time he will be called to the work for which he is so well fitted. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch