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  SOURCE: History of the State of Kansas, Wm. G. Cutler
          Pub. A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL - 1883

        J. H. CLARK, proprietor of the Golden Belt Elevator, and dealer
     in all kinds of grain.  He erected the Golden Belt Elevator in 1878,
     at a cost of $3,000.  The size of the building is 22x40 feet, the
     capacity 15,000 bushels.  He handled from 30 to 40 carloads of grain
     per week during the business season of 1882.  He also deals in coal.
     He first located in Ellsworth in 1875 and engaged in the present
     business, having bought and shipped the first grain in Ellsworth in
     the fall of 1875.  He was born in Western Virginia 1826.  His parents
     moved to Ohio in 1834, settling in Newark, where he was raised.  He
     first set out to farming in life, afterward in merchandising; first
     in Newark, Ohio, thence to Kansas City, Mo., where for sixteen years
     he followed the latter business, thence to Ellsworth.  Married in
     1866 to Miss Mattie E. Smith, of Springfield, Ohio.  He was elected
     Mayor of Ellsworth in the spring of 1882.  He has been a member of
     the School Board since he has been in Ellsworth.

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