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Matthew B. Clark (Muhlenberg co, Ky farmer and justice of the peace)

b. 1820?

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Quintillia Clark. Father of Sarah W. Clark, Joshua B. Atkinson Clark, Eudora Clark, Winfield S. Clark, Jennette Clark, Charles M. Clark, Mary Jane Clark, William C. Clark, Susan Clark, and John C. Clark. Farmer in Christian County in 1850. Farmer in Muhlenberg County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in 1860. Justice of the peace in Muhlenberg County in 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 1, p. 443.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, District 2, p. 12.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, District 2, p. 1.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, Court House Precinct 3, p. 55.
KYR-0001-029-0506.

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Clark, Matthew B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205960 (November 12, 2026).

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