Here’s a new photo of them in front of the home. Catherine Langdon passed away here and is buried nearby.
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1911 Newspaper articles about the Clarks and Bremers •••••••••••••••
(Added Nov. 2014) I recently purchased a microfilm of the 1910-1913 “Clear Lake Courier”. It was the newspaper for Clear Lake, South Dakota. Many articles about the Bremers and Clarks are in the paper. I’ll add them as I find them. Here’s a few. There are mentions of them in the Herbert and Anna Langdon page as well.
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16 March 1911 “Clear Lake Courier”; Clear Lake, South Dakota.
D. W. Bremer and his son-in-law Clarence Mikkelson, returned Saturday night from the hospital at Rochester, where Mr. Mikkleson was taken for examination. Instructions were given him by the expert doctors there which if carried out will ultimately restore Mr. Mikkleson to perfect health.
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23 March 1911 “Clear Lake Courier”; Clear Lake, South Dakota.
The buildings on the old George Clark place southeast of town are being torn down and the owner will build larger and more up to date structures.
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29 June 1911 “Clear Lake Courier”; Clear Lake, South Dakota.
Some weeks ago we stated that Will Bremer had resigned his position as general manager of a grain company at Winnipeg, and had gone into the real estate business with his brother at Arcola. It seems the grain company considered Will a valuable man and refused to accept his resignation. They raised his salary to a figure Will could not afford to ignore, and while he retains his interest in the real estate business he still continues to work for the grain company and has charge of a large line of elevators along a new railroad in the Canadian country.
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6 July 1911 “Clear Lake Courier”; Clear Lake, South Dakota.
Little Bessie Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sherm Clark, was seriously injured last Sunday. She attempted to raise the window at her home and her foot slipped and she fell through the glass cutting her elbow terribly. She was at once taken to Dr. Helmey who took a few stitches to close the wound and leave Miss Bessie in less pain. It is a serious wound and will take some time to heal.
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27 July 1911 “Clear Lake Courier”; Clear Lake, South Dakota.
Arthur Clark of Carlyle, Canada arrived here last Saturday evening for a brief visit with his aged mother and other relatives. Arthur is one of the best boys in the world and we are pleased to note that he has prospered in his Canadian home. He reports that all of the old Clear Lakeites up there are well and happy and are doing well. In speaking of the property of the late John Cassineli he says that Mr. Cassineli willed five hundred dollars to the nurse who cared for him in his last days and that the balance of his property amounting to quite a sum to his sister, cutting his wife out without a cent. The wife was about to commence action for her third but the sister agreed to divide up the estate equally with her after the probation of the estate and the suit was dropped. Mr. Clark returned home yesterday to look after his crops which he tells us are fairly good this year though injured some with the dry weather.
1898 Bio of Newton D. Clark •••••••••••••••
Stumbled on this in the stacks at the Wisconsin Historical Society. I was looking for another book and thought this might be interesting, so I opened it up to a random page and who do I see!? Newton D. Clark! I looked through the index for every other name I could think of, but he was the only one I recognized. He must have wanted me to find him. Lot of great details about family history in here that aren’t in the Canadian books.
“Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated compendium of biography... 1898”.
Here’s a version of it online.
Mary Langdon Clark ••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Daughter of Rufus & Catherine. She married Newton Dodge Clark Feb. 22, 1872, and was a teacher in Green Lake. They moved to Clear Lake, SD and from there moved to Carlyle, Saskatchewan in Canada.
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• In the 1880 Census, Newton’s job is “Selling Pictures”
Assorted new documents•••••••••••••••••
• Rufus (Younger) Probate (36 pages) 7.6MB pdf file
• N.D. Clark Probate
Petition for Probate of Last Will (6 pages) 4MB pdf file
• Full Probate (on Familysearch)
• Mary E. Langdon to Newton D. Clark Marriage Record
• 1905 Letter from ND Clark to family in Oregon. The letter begins with a postscript dated June 10, 1905. It’s written sideways on top of the page. Catherine died 4 days later on June 14, 1905. It reads: “Mother is no better, very bad off.”
The rest of the letter starts with Catherine’s ill health and mentions that they are all eating prunes. Here’s two newspaper articles about the prunes. Erwin was growing them in Oregon and selling them in the Dakotas.
Thanks to Chris Bremer who has a great “Bremer Family History” site on Flikr.
Photo by D.M. Buchanen & Co., Photo Artists, Arcola (on front). Back says Bremer 1911. Uncle Jess or Uncle Charles, and Uncle Algie, are in this photo somewhere, according to a note with the photo. Algie to the right of Jess or Charles, may or may not be adjacent.
1903 Canadian Homesteading (Above)
The example above is unique in that it was NOT a railcar, but there were many of these traveling throughout the midwest luring settlers to Canada. Newton and Mary undoubtably saw these and decided that it couldn’t hurt to take a look. From what’s written in the books linked below, you can see they traveled to Canada with a group of people, liked what they saw and moved north. The panel with a diagonal swash that reads “Western Canada” is worth a closer look.
