Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-09-12
The Well Known Congressman
Said to BE Nearing His End
i'm New York.
Unconscious at Last Accounts and
Rapidly Sinking Death
Very Near.
Sketch of the Busy Career of the
Doomed Man-His Political
History.

NEENAH, Wis, Sept. S.-A dispatch
was received here this morning from
Theresa, n. Y, stating that ex-Congress.
man Charles b. Clark, of this city, was
dying at that place The message was
from Mrs. Clark, and added that her hus
band was unconscious and rapidly sinking
and was not expected to survive but few
hours.
While Mr. Clark's health has been a
cause of anxiety for some days, he was
not believed to be critically i'll. The first
news of his alarming condition was con
tanned in a telegram received last
night by f. c. Shattuck, of the kimberly
Clark Paper company, stating that the
ex-congressman vas dying at his old
home at Theresa, N. j., and to start im-
mediately for that place with DR.. Barrett
and Mr. Clark's children.
Mr. Clark has been suffering from kid
ney troubles for the past two years, but
this serious turn of the disease was to-
tally unexpected. Tne Appleton Post, be-
fore the last campaign, at first stoutly
opposed the denomination of Mr..
Clark on the ground that it would
imparil his life; but Mr.. Clark himself
was not aroused to his critical condition
For several months past, however, his
health has failed rapidly, and few weeks
ago Mr. CLARK decided to try a foreign trip
as last resort. He left here about two
weeks ago, intending to stop at Theresa a
few days. His condition evidently became
worse, and now his death is hourly ex-
pected.
Mr.. Clark was born Theresa, Jeffer-
son county N. Y, August "a, 1874
lie came to Wisconsin with his par
ents in 1854. They settled at Neenah where
their son received a common school edu
cation. August IL, 1862, he enlisted
in Co. ], twenty first Wisconsin
infantry, and after passing
through the non-commissioned grades
he was made first lieutenant of his com
pany Nov. q, 1864, being mustered out
with he regiment June g. 1885. After
the war he engaged in business at Neenah,
and rapidly worked his way up the fnan-
cial ladder until he stood at the head of
/ the leading manufacturing enterprises
of the Fox river valley, being one Of
the partners in the Kimberly &
Clark paper mills and other facto-
ries of Neenah, Appleton and other points
along that magnificent water power. In
| 1885 he made his appearance in politics in
a very modest way as the republican can
didate for the assembly from his district
and was elected The next year the OPP
position to Congressman Guenther, unable
to otherwise defeat him, combined on Mr..
Clark and gave him the nomination.
( 1t was sure republican district in
those days and he was elected by
/ A, 458 plurality over Andrew Haben. Two
years later ha defeated Chas. w. FeIker
/ by 8. 764 votes, but went down in the gen
eral wreck Of his party at the election Of
1890, being defeated by Col. L NJ Miller,
of Oshkosh
Mr.. Clark was one of the bondsmen for
/ H. B. Harshaw when the latter was state
treasurer and consequently defendant in
the suit against him to recover the inter-
est on the deposits of the state funds. He
was very wealthy.