Clark biography of john simon clark
Simon Clark - Wikipedia.
CLARKE, JOHN, fur trader; b. in Montreal, son of Simon Clarke, innkeeper, and Ann Waldorf; m. first about , according to the custom of the country, Josephte Kanhopitsa, and they had one daughter; m. secondly Sophia (Sapphira) Jacobina Spence (d. ), daughter of HBC clerk Joseph Spence, a fur-trade alliance entered into in or before and solemnized on 9 Nov.
Clark biography of john simon clark
in Montreal; m. thirdly by Marianne Trustler (Tranclar, Trutter), a country marriage solemnized in Montreal on 26 Oct. , and they had four sons and four daughters; d. 19 Dec. in Montreal.
John Clarke joined the North West Company as an apprentice clerk on 17 Jan.
, and that spring he journeyed from Montreal to Grand Portage (near Grand Portage, Minn.) in the same NWC party as Daniel Williams Harmon*. After three hectic weeks at Grand Portage, Clarke left for Athabasca in July with John Finlay and Alexander Henry* the younger.
In he established the NWC post at Pierre au Calumet (n