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- Irving B. CLARKE 1855 - 1949
- Funeral services for Irving B. CLARKE,
93, the oldest life-long resident of Milton
- Junction, were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday,
Jan 25, from the Gray and Albrecht funeral home with the Rev.
Kenneth B. Van Horn officiating. Burial was in Milton Junction
cemetery.
- Pallbearers were Carr KUMLIEN,
Erv McWILLIAM, Jess BABCOCK, Carl
- GRAY,
Archie STRIEGL, and Floyd VINCENT.
- Mr. CLARKE died at 10:30 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 22, in Mercy hospital, Janesville,
- where he was taken Saturday afternoon
for treatment after being cared for several weeks at the Beecher
convalescent home in Janesville.
- Mr. CLARKE had been a farmer,
salesman, painter, and carpenter. He lived at 105
- Clear Lake ave., Milton Junction, for
40 years.
- He cast his 73rd ballot in the primary
election last September, and never missed voting
- at an election, relatives said. He
cast his first vote for president in 1876 when Hayes and Wheeler
were the candidates.
- Irving Benton CLARKE was born
in Leonardsville, N.Y., Nov. 4, 1855, the son of
- Sherrill Joseph CLARKE and Harriet
SAUNDERS CLARKE. He came west with his parents
a year later, the family settling on a farm east of Milton which
had been purchased by Irving CLARKE's grandfather, Alvit
CLARKE.
- They resided there until 1867 when
his father bought the southern half of the farm and
- built a house on it, the farm now owned
by Mr. CLARKE's brother, J. Dwight CLARKE.
- Mr. CLARKE attended Milton public
schools and Milton Academy. On Nov. 4,
- 1876, he married Rosella OSBORN,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William OSBORN, Milton, and five
children were born to them. The eldest son died in infancy and
Mrs. CLARKE died Sept. 3, 1900.
- On Aug. 3, 1903, Mr. CLARKE
married Mrs. Esther OSBORN COLE, who died
- Feb. 12, 1948.
- Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Oscar
H. CRANDALL, Hermose Beach, Calif.,
- three sons, Roy C., of Minneapolis,
Howard L. of Big Bear Lake, Calif., and Harlow CLARKE,
rt 2, Janesville; three grandsons, nine granddaughters; several
great-grandchildren; one brother, J. Dwight CLARKE, and
a sister, Miss Anne Cora CLARKE, both of Milton. [Thursday
edition, p. 8]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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