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Biographical History of Northern Michigan
B. F. Bowen & Co., - 1905

        [31-32]

        CLARK TAGGART

           It is no mere assumption that energy and consecutive application
        will eventuate in success in nearly every instance, and proof is
        afforded in the case of Mr. Taggart, who is one of the well known
        pioneers and prosperous farmers of Antrim county, his well improved
        farm being located in Central Lake township.
           MR. TAGGART is a native of the province of Ontario, Canada,
        where he was born on the 21st of March, 1859, and he is a son of
        ROBERT and ELIZA (WILEY) TAGGART, the former of whom was born in
        Ireland and the latter in Scotland, while both passed the closing
        years of their lives in Huron county, Michigan. The father was a
        weaver by trade but devoted the greater portion of his active
        career to agricultural pursuits, being in independent circumstances
        and being a man who ever held the confidence and esteem of those
        with whom he came in contact.
           The subject of this review passed his youthful years in his
        native province of Ontario, where he learned the lessons of practi-
        cal industry by aiding his father in the work of the farm, and his
        educational privileges were those afforded in the public schools.
        In 1879, at the age of twenty years, he came to Michigan and
        located in Huron county, and thereafter he devoted his attention to
        labors of various descriptions until 1890, when he came to Antrim
        county and settled in the village of Central Lake. For two years
        thereafter he was identified with lumbering enterprises here, and
        he then, in 1897, located on his present farm, to whose cultivation
        and improvement he has since devoted himself, having developed one
        of the valuable places of the county. His farm comprises one hun-
        dred and sixty acres, of which one hundred and twenty have been
        made available for successful cultivation, and he raises the
        various products best suited to the soil and climate, also having a
        good orchard, while he has made the raising of live stock a profi-
        table phase of his farming enterprise, giving preference to the
        Short horn and Durham types of cattle and the Chester White and
        Poland China hogs. MR. TAGGART purchased this property in 1897
        and at that time the greater portion of the place was covered with
        the native timber, which has been cleared off through his own
        efforts, while he has also made all of the improvements on the
        farm, which is equipped with good buildings and bears evidence of
        unmistakable thrift and prosperity.
           In the matter of politics MR. TAGGART is found stanchly arrayed
        as a supporter of the Republican party, and he has served in
        various local offices of trust, including that of pathmaster and
        also that of member of the school board of his district. In a fra-
        ternal way he is identified with the tent of Knights of the Mac-
        cabees at Central Lake and with the organization of Orangemen,
        having been reared in the Protestant faith and being of stanch
        Irish lineage. He has reason to be gratified with the success which
        he has gained here, for he came to the county a poor man and is now
        numbered among the substantial farmers and popular citizens of
        Central Lake township.
           In the year 1890 MR. TAGGART was united in marriage to MISS
        HULDA A. MATHERS, who was born and reared in Central Lake town
        ship, being a daughter of JOHN MATHERS, who was a farmer by
        vocation and who passed the closing years of his life in Michigan.
        MR. and MRS. TAGGART have seven children, namely: MARY E., a
        daughter of his first wife, JOHN R., WILLIAM T., PETER M., GEORGE
        M., HENRY E. and ELIZABETH G.

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