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William Clark

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William Clark

Lewis and Clark Expedition

    William Clark

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    • 1st Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 1 
    • Birth Date:
    • 1 Aug 1770 
    • Birth Location:
    • Caroline County, Virginia 
    • Christening Date:
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    • Death Date:
    • 1 Sep 1838 
    • Death Location:
    • St. Louis, Missouri 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Burial Location:
    • Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri 
    • Notes: 

    • Leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (aka Corps of Discovery).

      Brother to General George Rogers Clark.

  • Marriages for William Clark

    • Spouse:
    • Julia Hancock
    • Marriage Date:
    • 5 Jan 1808
    • Marriage Location:
    • Fincastle, Botetourt Co., Virginia
    • Spouse:
    • Harriet Kennerly Radford
    • Marriage Date:
    • 28 Nov 1821

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  • Sources for William Clark

    • 1 Brown, John Howard, ed., Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States, Volume 2, Chubb-Erich, Boston, Mass.: James H. Lamb Company (1900), 33.
    • 2 Dorman, John Frederick, III, "Descendants of General Jonathan Clark, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1750-1811, Louisville, Kentucky: Reprinted from The Filson History Quarterly Vol 23 (1949), 26.
    • 3 Thruston, R. C. Ballard, "Some Recent Finds Regarding the Ancestry of General George Rogers Clark", Louisville, KY: Reprinted from The Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. IX, No.1 (January 1935), 1-34.