 Complete the following phrase:  Clark was born July 17, 1823 in Wakeman, Huron County, Ohio, where he spent his childhood on his familys farm. He was educated in the public schools and at the Academy of Oberlin College. In 1846 he moved from Ohio to Port Washington, Wisconsin where he worked as a surveyor, in a drug store owned by an older brother, and as deputy sheriff. In 1849, he undertook an overland journey to California to join the 