. History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present. rs. He then went to Sacramento onbusiness, spending a part of two winters duringthe sessions of the legislature. In 1888 he wasreappointed by the commissioners guardian ofthe Yosemite grant and re-appointed each yearfor eight years, when he declined the that time he has lived in retirement, hav-ing built a cottage at Summerland, but since1904 having passed his time with a daughter,Mrs. Lee, in San Francisco until the fire
. History of the state of California and biographical record of Oakland and environs, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present. rs. He then went to Sacramento onbusiness, spending a part of two winters duringthe sessions of the legislature. In 1888 he wasreappointed by the commissioners guardian ofthe Yosemite grant and re-appointed each yearfor eight years, when he declined the that time he has lived in retirement, hav-ing built a cottage at Summerland, but since1904 having passed his time with a daughter,Mrs. Lee, in San Francisco until the fire of1906, and since then in Oakland. Besides beinga lover of nature Mr. Clark had always takena prominent part in the upbuilding and develop-ment of the country, serving as justice of thepeace, postmaster, and being ever ready to lendhis aid toward the furtherance of plans for thegeneral welfare of whatever community he madehis home. He is well read, and informed on alltopics of contemporary interest, and has pub-lished two works relative to the early times, thefirst, published in 1904, being entitled Indiansof the Valley, and the other, in 1906, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 419 Mr. Clark had a family of five children, threesons and two daughters, all but one born in Mis-souri and the youngest in Philadelphia. The old-est son, Joseph Locke, enlisted for service inthe Civil war in a Massachusetts regiment, andwas killed at the second battle of Bull second son, Galen Alonzo, also enlisted forservice in the Civil war, under command ofGen. Lew Wallace, whose private secretary hebecame, but never saw active warfare, as theclose of hostilities followed shortly after hisenlistment. He was a graduate of Harvard,and after ending his school days he came to Cali-fornia and spent one year with his father, afterwhich he went to San Francisco to take up thestudy of law. Death interrupted his youngest son, Solon McCoy, was drownedat Peterboro, N. H. The da
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