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Rev. William Brown Clark was born on January 25, 1805, in Biggar, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
In the 1840s, he was a Free Church minister at the Parish of Half-Morton in the County of Dumfries in Scotland. In 1851, he moved to Canada and participated in the Presbyterian missionary work in British Columbia. He also served as a Presbyterian minister in Quebec City and Montreal.
In 1836, he married Jane (Jean) Brown (1803–1854). In 1870, he remarried Amelia Torrance (1813–1890). He died on March 15, 1893, in Dundas, Ontario.