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William Clark - MSN Encarta (621 words) |
 | William Clark (1770-1838), American explorer, Native American agent, and frontier politician, who served as co-leader, with Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806), the first overland exploration of the American West and Pacific Northwest. |
| Clark followed the powerful examples of his brothers Jonathan and George Rogers Clark, both of whom made military life the path to success. |
| Clark's army experience also prepared him to be the expedition's most able negotiator and diplomat, a role he played in many meetings with Native Americans. |
| WILLIAM A. CLARK, CO. B (1936 words) |
| General William A. Clark is without question the most widely known citizen of Wilmington township, Lawrence Co., Pa. He is a comparatively young man, but his life has been crowded with events of importance, which have followed one another in close succession. |
| Clark was the oldest of a family of twelve children, and it is worthy to note, that her youngest sister is the wife of David McKinley, brother of William McKinley, President of the United States. |
| William A. Clark, Jr., the son, is a medical student, an electrician, and is pursuing a meritorious career at this writing. |
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