Person Record

Metadata

Name

Clark, Justus B., Jr.

Genealogy ID

16278

Born

04 JUN 1832

Birthplace

Richmond, Tioga PA

Deceased

11 JUN 1919

Deceased where

Mansfield, Tioga PA

Cemetery

Prospect Cemetery

Occupation

Merchant, farmer

Titles & honors

Civil War
G.A.R. Mansfield Post # 48
Sullivan Grange No. 84 P.O.H.
School Director

Military

Civil War

Father

Justus Burr Clark

Mother

Catherine Ann Hart

Spouse

Susan H. Lucas, Mary Klock

Children

Lyman Clark
George A. Clark
Lee Earl Clark

Reference

GAR bio Obit PDC 1883 1897

Notes

Justus B. Clark - was born the 4th day of June 1832 in Richmond Township, Tioga County, PA. He enlisted Sept. 1861 at Harrisburg, PA as a Private in Co. B, 101st PA Vol. Inf., being later promoted to Sergt. May 31, 1862 at the battle of Fair Oaks, VA. He received a gunshot wound in left shoulder and was taken to hospital at Annapolis, MD, where he remained three months. In Nov. 1862 he was detailed at New Bern, NC as Sergt. in Ambulance Corps, serving about seventeen months. He was honorably discharged Dec. 31, 1863 at Plymouth, NC and re-enlisted the following day as a veteran in old command. At the battle of Plymouth, NC Apr. 20, 1984 he was captured by Gen. Hoke and was taken to Andersonville, GA and Florence, SC, where he was held nine months, then paroled and sent to parole camp at Annapolis, MD, where in Jan. 1865 he was furloughed for thirty days. He participated in the Siege of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, New Bern and Plymouth. He was honorably discharged June 1865 at Harrisburg, PA. His Company "B" was raised in Tioga County and had as its captains, Joseph S. Hoard, Victor A. Elliott and Melvin L. Clark. Joseph S. Hoard was promoted to Major later on and Capt. Clark was commissioned Lt. Colonel of the regiment on May 18, 1865. Joseph H. Wilson of Beaver County was the regimental Colonel when the regiment was organized, Oct. 1861. – GAR#48, p.76

Justus was a sergeant in the Civil War.

J. B. CLARK. JR., son of Justus B. and Catherine Clark, was born in Richmond, in 1832. He married Susan, daughter of James and Phoebe Lucas, of Troy. He enlisted in 1861 in Company B 101st Pa. volunteers, and served four years. He was taken prisoner at Plymouth, N.C., in 1864; was wounded at Fair Oaks in 1862. He has been a farmer and butcher, and in 1881 established the firm of J. B. Clark & Son, dealers in flour and feed at Mansfield

Justus B. Clark, Jr. son of Justin B. and Catherine Clark, was born in Richmond Township, Tioga county , June 5, 1832, was reared on the homestead farm, on Corey creek, and obtained a common school education. On June 5, 1856, he married Susan H. Lucas, a daughter of James and Phoebe Lucas, who bore him two sons, Lyman deceased and George A., now a resident of Mansfield. Mrs. Clark died July 19,1890, and he was married again to Mary N. Johnson, Nee Klock, widow of Henry Johnson, by whom he had one son , Lee Earl. In the fall of 1861 Mr. Clark enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and First Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until the regiment was discharged, participating in the various battles in which it took part. He entered the service as a private, and by successive promotions, for meritorious conduct, reached the rank of second lieutenant before he was mustered out of service. He was taken prisoner with his company at Plymouth, North Carolina, in April 1864, and was confined in Andersonville and other southern prisons until February, 1865. In 1866 he bought his present farm of 275 acres, in the southeast part of Richmond township. From 1881 to 1885 he was engaged in the general mercantile business in Mansfield with his son, George A. In 1891 he established the Mansfield Carriage Repository, of which his son had charge, retiring to his farm in 1892. Mr. Clark is a stanch Republican, and is also a member of Mansfield Post, G. A. R. and of Sullivan Grange , of Mainesburg. He has served as a school director and has been one of the trustees of the /state Normal School for a number of years. In religion he is an adherent of the Methodist Episcopal church. [1897 Tioga County History p 1052]

Mansfield Advertiser, 16 February 1881, p.3
-- J.B. Clark, Jr. of Richmond has purchased the meat market and other business of B.R. Bailey in this boro, and entered into possession yesterday. It has certainly been a thriving institution, and we hope to see it continue under the new proprietorship.
--B.R. Bailey has sold out his meat market and grocery and intends to retire to his farm. He ran it for all it was worth and was successful, but the gaieties of city life have palled on his taste and he will probably resign his position as High mucky-muck of shadowy No.2, and develop into a horny-handed granger gracefully. Well Burr was "one of the boys" while on earth, and in his retirement it will be consolation to know that at times he will yet mingle. and so we are not all forlorn.

Mansfield Advertiser, 16 February 1881, p.3
Business - B. R. Bailey has leased The United States Hotel and will run it next season 15/16 - 1

CLARK, Justice B. - Justice B. Clark died at his home in Mansfield Wednesday evening, June 11, at 6:20 p.m., after a short illness. Mr. Clark suffered from heart and lung trouble, but seemed to be improving rapidly up to the time he died. He had just passed his 87th year. Justice B. Clark was born near Mansfield, June 5, 1832. He enlisted in the Federal Army at the age of 29 years, in October, 1861, and was mustered into the army at Harrisburg for the period of three years, in Co. B, 101st Regiment, Penna. Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded in the left shoulder in the battle of Fair Oaks, June 1, 1862; promoted to corporal and sergeant and honorably discharged December 31, 1863. He re-enlisted January 1, 1864. At the siege of Plymouth, N.C., he was captured with most of his regiment Apr8il 17, 1864, and sent to Andersonville, Ga., where he was held a prisoner for about nine months. Rejoined his regiment and was promoted to second lieutenant, and assigned for duty to Roanoke Island, N.C. Honorably discharged June 25, 1865, at New Bern, N.C. by reason of the close of the war. Mr. Clark is survived by one son, Lee E. and grandchildren Basil L. and Harland L.; also one brother, Morris Clark, and one sister, Nancy Middaugh, who resides in San Francisco. - Advertiser. Wellsboro Agitator, 25 June 1919.

Justus B. Clark, widowed = 16278
Death Cert. #67769; Cause - Acute bronchitis
b. 5 June 1832, PA; d. 11 June 1919, Mansfield Boro
Occupation - Merchant
Justus B. Clark, Mass. + Katharine Hart, PA
Informant - Lee E. Clark, Mansfield, PA
Signed by - H.C. Harkness, Mansfield, PA; 14 June 1919
Burial - 14 June 1919, Mansfield, PA