Clark, Henry A.

b. 1805, in Barren County, Kentucky; d. 1887. Clark came to Illinois in 1826. In 1832, he fought in the Black Hawk War. After the war, Clark lived in Woodford County and practiced law. He was associated with Lincoln in various cases.

Albert A. Woldman, Lawyer Lincoln (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936), 131; Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, ed., Herndon’s Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 743.