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enjoyed themselves very much while they were in Provo, and the natural bond between them was considerably strengthened."       - Alta Knowlton (Lindsay), a niece of both Wilford and his half-sister Annie Clark (Tanner), and granddaughter of Susan Leggett Clark, 1962. (NOTES: Brigham Young Academy became Brigham Young University in 1903; and "Aunt Nancy" Areta Porter Stevenson had become Ezra T. Clark's third wife late in her life.)

Wilford's span of years was to witness: the Church evolve from public ridicule to widespread respect; his rural territory become an urban-industrial state; his nation mature from an economy of small enterprises and "rugged individualism'' to one based on large institutions and welfare statism; his culture become altered by theories of an evolutionary ascent of man, of socialism, and of master races; and his world change by the decline of monarchies, and by problems of atomics, rocketry, national purposes, and international genocide.
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1. Andrea, A. T.   History of Chicago.  A. T. Andrea, Chicago, 1884. Vol 1, pg 117-194.

2. Tanner, Annie Clark. A Biography of Ezra Thompson Clark. Deseret News Press, Salt Lake City, 1933. p 10.

3. Bryant, G. C. Deacon George Clark(e) and Some of His Descendants. Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine, 1949. p 101. (NOTE: The last survivor of this war was William Oglesby Clark of California, the son of Timothy Baldwin Clark, who died in 1912.)

4. Tanner, A. C. Op. Cit. p 10. (NOTE: Numerous historians of Chicago give this same honor to the explorer, George Rogers Clark, to whom no kinship currently is known.)

5. Isaiah 35:1.