Son of Ezra Thompson Clark and Mary Stevenson

Married Wealthy Richards, 25 Sep 1879, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah

Children - Edward Franklin Clark, Rulon W. Clark, Wealthy Clark, Ralph Clark, Ray Clark, Orson Richards Clark, and Mary Lucille Clark

Married Alice Randall, 2 Apr 1885, Logan, Cache, Utah

Children - Walter Edward Clark, Melvin J. Clark, Rhoda Clark, Maurine Clark and Bryant Randall Clark

History - As a child Edward Barrett Clark had red hair, freckles, and plenty of temper.

Edward started courting Wealthy Richards when he was 16 and she was 14. Their courtship ended in marriage on September 25, 1879. For years they were without the prospect of children. Edward took a plural wife, Alice Randall, on December 21, 1863. After this, both wives gave him a family. To Wealthy was born seven children, including twins who died shortly after birth. Alice had five children.

Edward was very active in the LDS Church. He served as President of M.I.A., the secretary of Y.M.M.I.A., secretary of the seventies quorum, temple worker, and a patriarch. He served as a missionary on a stake home mission and to the Northern States.

He served his community. He was a county treasurer, city councilman, Justice of the Peace, County Commissioner, incorporated and directed several irrigation companies, a commercial and manufacturing company, and Davis County Bank. He also helped organize and served as president of a Federal Land Bank.

During his lifetime, Edward farmed using everything from an oxen team and scythe to harvesters. As he grew, there was enough work on his father's farm that he never worked elsewhere. Later he owned some good land in Farmington, Utah, where he and Wealthy lived and some in Georgetown, Idaho, where Alice lived. He raised hay, grain, and produce in Farmington, and raised cattle, horse, and later a dairy herd, in Georgetown. He usually did the job of driving the cattle between homes to Idaho in the spring, and to Utah in the fall to market.

Edward led an active and full life. He was an initiator, a leader, and a great example to his posterity.

Later in life he served for the Church of Latter-Day Saints as a missionary in Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota from 1908 to 1911. He was also involved in the Republican Party. The Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act was passed by the U.S. Congress and became effective on March 22, 1882 which allowed the Utah Commission to disenfranchise 12,000 voters to include Edward’s father who was the Davis County Treasurer. After his father was disenfranchised for having more then one wife and was forced to step-down from being the Davis County Treasurer, Edward succeeded him in the position. How Edward was able to accomplish this is unknown as he, also was in violation of this Act as he had two wives and should not have been allowed to hold this position. Edward paid his father’s court costs and his incurred additional costs while he was incarcerated for a six month term in the amount of $417.20.