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Below is a family biography included in The History of Washington County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Damon Clarke, proprietor and editor of the Fayetteville Republican, was born at Macomb, McDonough Co., Ill., May 20, 1861. He received a fair common-school education during his youth, and in 1879 went to Topeka, Kas., where he remained one year, being employed as a clerk. He then became connected with C. C. Chapman & Co., Publishers, of Chicago, and remained with them until the fall of 1881, when he joined the historical corps of J. H. Beers & Co. (subsequently Warner, Beers & Co.), for whom he worked until the fall of 1883. The following winter he was employed as secretary of the Union Publishing Company, of Springfield, Ill., after which he traveled a year as general agent for a Grand Army of the Republic history. In November, 1884, he came to Bentonville, Ark., where his parents, C. C. and Martha (Lea) Clarke, still reside. In February, 1886, he purchased the Springdale News, selling it in December of the same year to enter into a co-partnership with Thomas Brooks in the purchase of the Fayetteville Republican, of which Mr. Clarke became manager and editor. In January, 1888, he assumed the sole proprietorship of that organ. Mr. Clarke is a member of the Arkansas Press Association, and belongs to the Young Men’s Republican Club, of Fayetteville. He was also a charter member and the first prelate of Criterion Lodge of the K. of P., of Fayetteville. He is now secretary of the Washington County Republican Central Committee, and has been secretary of the Congressional Committee of his party. In 1888 he was an alternate delegate from the Fifth Arkansas Congressional District to the National Republican Convention.

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This family biography is one of 300 biographies included in The History of Washington County, Arkansas published in 1889.  For the complete description, click here: Washington County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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