Samuel Asahel Clarke
Illustration — Samuel Asahel Clarke from the frontispiece of his 1905 book Pioneer Days in Oregon. Samuel Asahel Clarke (March 7, 1827 – August 20, 1909) (more commonly known as S. Clarke) was a poet and an early journalist of the U.S. state of Oregon. Samuel Asahel Clarke was born in Cuba and educated in New York City, Clarke went to California to prospect for gold in 1849, and then to Oregon in 1850, where he lived initially in Portland prior to its incorporation.
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Samuel Asahel Clarke
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- 1827 · Gibara.
- Died
- 1909
- Occupation
- writer · historian · poet · journalist
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Illustration — Samuel Asahel Clarke from the frontispiece of his 1905 book Pioneer Days in Oregon. Samuel Asahel Clarke (March 7, 1827 – August 20, 1909) (more commonly known as S. Clarke) was a poet and an early journalist of the U.S. state of Oregon. Samuel Asahel Clarke was born in Cuba and educated in New York City, Clarke went to California to prospect for gold in 1849, and then to Oregon in 1850, where he lived initially in Portland prior to its incorporation.
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Born at Gibara in 1827, died in 1909.
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