FULTON COUNTY OHIO 
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File contributed for use by Ohio Biographies Project
by Janet Wilkinson Schwartz (wilkinschw@aol.com)
December 2002
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History of Henry and Fulton Counties, Ohio.  Lewis Cass Aldrich, ed.  Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1888.

CLARK, JOHN A., Clinton, Pettisville p.o., a pioneer of Fulton county, was born 
in Maryland in 1829 and was a son of EBENEZER and MARY (DYE) CLARK, who were 
born and married in Maryland and settled in Holmes county, O., in 1838, and in 
1841 came to Fulton county and purchased his farm of eighty acres in 1843, for 
which he paid $200. 

EBENEZER was born in 1801, and his wife MARY, in 1809. They had a family of 
eleven children, eight of whom are now living: JOHN A. (born in 1829), DANIEL 
(born 1832), EZEKIEL (born 1841), WILLIAM (born 1849), MOSES (born 1851), NANCY (now Mrs. HAYES), MELISSA (now Mrs. MELIUS), MARY (now Mrs. VOLENTINE). ADEN 
enlisted and was killed in the battle near Petersburg, while serving in the 
Sixty-eighth Ohio Regiment.

JOHN A. CLARK was married in 1854 to ELIZABETH KRONTZ who was born in Holmes 
county in 1834. They have had a family of five children: JAMES M., NOAH M., 
SOLOMON J., WILLIAM R. and ELIZA JANE. ELIZABETH was a daughter of PHILLIP and SUSAN S. KRONTZ. Mr. CLARK now owns the eighty acre homestead, to which he has 
added 100 acres and now has a fine stock farm of 180 acres with 140 acres under 
cultivation on section nineteen. he is now engaged in the breeding of Norman 
horses and short horn cattle and general farming.