Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2022 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== History of Anoka County And the Towns of Champlin and Dayton In Hennepin County, Minnesota by Albert M. Goodrich pub. 1905 - Hennepin Publishing Co., Minneapolis page 199 JOSIAH F. CLARK was the first probate judge of Anoka county after the organization of the state. This was in 1858. His official career thereafter was considerable. In the fall of 1866 he was elected county treasurer, taking charge the following March. He continued in this capacity for four years. He held several other important offices, among which were justice of the peace, and clerk of the school board for four years. Mr. CLARK was born in China, Kennebec Co., Maine, March 9, 1823, where he completed his education in the China Academy. He came to Anoka county April 18, 1854, and pre-empted a claim two miles above Champlin. Two years thereafter, having proved up on his farm, he moved to Anoka and worked at his trade, carpent- ering, but many years after returned to farming. In 1902, however, he removed again to Anoka, where he still lives. He taught a singing school at Anoka in the winters of 1855-6 and 1856-7. He was the first teacher of vocal music north of St. Anthony. He enlisted in 1862 in Co. A, Eighth Minn. Regiment, and was made chief musician, serving until the war closed. Judge CLARK was married July 2, 1842, to LOUISA BROWN. Children: AUGUSTA (died 1865), GEORGIANA (Mrs. NORRIS, Anoka), FRANCIS T. (died 1891), and JOSIAH W. (Transcriber's Note: The death date of Francis T. is wrong. His bio, in this book, and his tombstone in West Oak Grove cemetery, gives 1898 as the year of his death.)