PADUCAH DAILY NEWS Paducah, KY January 1887 (Special Number) ____________________ Hon. Wm. C. Clark. This gentleman was born in Orange County, Va., in September 1832. He moved with his parents in 1847 to Clarksville, Tenn., where he lived until early in the year 1850. From there, to quote his own language, he "cut out" for himself, and spent some years in Texas and New Mexico, being engaged in prospecting and mining in the vast named territory. He returned to Kentucky in 1857 and engaged in farming near Florence Station. In 1860 he moved to Charleston, Mo., where he engaged in the hotel business. The war breaking out the next year, he returned to Kentucky again and entered the First Confederate Regiment as a private. He was rapidly promoted for meritorious service to first lieutenant, regimental, brigade and lastly division quartermaster successively. At the cessation of hostilities in 1865, he came back once more to Paducah. Thence he removed to Graves County, where he was elected to the legislature-serving in the session of 1868-69. In 1870 he ran, as an independent, for Congress, but was defeated by Col. Ed Crossland, the regular Democratic nominee. In 1872 he again became a resident of Paducah, and has continued to live here ever since, one of our most valued and honored citizens. For six years he served in the important position of tobacco inspector for this market. Last February he was appointed postmaster by President Cleveland-an office which he still fills with credit to himself and the satisfaction of the community.