Clark, Joshua Reuben, 1840-1929

Clerk of the Tooele Stake of Utah in the Mormon Church. He later served as a mission president and as a patriarch for that faith.

Joshua Reuben Clark Sr. was born near Anton, Stark County, Ohio, 11 December 1840. As a young man, he enlisted in the Civil War and served for two years before he was discharged as a result of illness. He then went to Montana, where he tried his hand at mining. He moved to Utah in 1867 and almost immediately was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He moved to Grantsville, Utah, in 1868 and lived there the rest of his life. He taught school and farmed; was manager of the local co-op; and held some political offices. He was always very active in church affairs. In his later years, he served as president of the Northern States Mission, and stake patriarch. He died on 25 July 1929, at Grantsville, Utah.

Joshua Reuben Clark Sr. was born near Anton, Stark County, Ohio, December 11, 1840. He died July 25, 1929, at Grantsville, Utah. As a young man he enlisted in the Civil War and served for two years before he was discharged as a result of illness. He then went to Montana, where he tried his hand at mining. He moved to Utah in 1867 and almost immediately was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He moved to Grantsville, Utah in 1868 and lived there the rest of his life. He taught school and farmed; was manager of the local co-op; and held some political offices. He was always very active in church affairs. In his later years he served as president of the Northern States Mission, and stake patriarch.

Joshua Reuben Clark was born on December 11, 1840, in Stark County, Ohio, the son of Hendricks Clark and Esther Rinker. Clark visited Salt Lake City on his way to Montana in 1865 and again in 1867, when he was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Clark became a teacher in Grantsville, Utah Territory, in 1868, and was superintendent of the Grantsville Cooperative Store for six years. He also served as a teacher and postmaster in Tooele Stake, Utah Territory. He became an elder in the LDS Church in 1868. In 1870 Clark married Mary Louisa Woolley, who was born on July 5, 1848, in Keith County, Nebraska. Her parents, Bishop Edwin D. Woolley and Mary Wickersham, were Pennsylvania Quakers who converted to Mormonism after a meeting with Joseph Smith's father. Joshua and Mary had ten children (Joshua Reuben, Edwin Marcelus, Elmer Dale, Mary Esther, Frank Rinker, Alice May, Samuel Woolley, Lucille Rebecca, John Woolley, and Gordon Woolley). Joshua Clark served as president of a Mormon mission from 1895-1896, was made a High Priest of the LDS Church in 1908, and a Patriarch in 1913. He kept a daily journal for over forty years, until his death in Grantsville on July 25, 1929. Mary Clark died in Salt Lake City on February 10, 1938.