5th of July, 112, in te Ligonier valley ounty, Pernsvivania, I was the thi kuke, who beame in the year 1839 p.

k of the court, of Westmoreland County.

HE Territory of Iowa included the vast region lying north of the State of Missouri to the British possessions, between the Mississippi river and a line drawn due north from its headwaters, on the east, and the Missouri and the White Earth rivers, on the west. It had a political existence of eight years and five months; that is, from the 4th of July, 1838, when it was constituted by act of Congress, until the 3d of December, 1846, when the Territorial government lapsed in favor of the State of Iowa, and the first Governor of the State took his oath of office.

The Territory of Iowa had three Governors, namely, Robert Lucas, John Chambers, and James Clarke. A memoir of Governor Lucas was published in the Annals of Iowa for January, April, and July, 1870. A memoir of Governor Chambers was published in the Annals for July, 1871.

James Clarke, the third Governor of the Territory, was born on the 5th of July, 1812, in the Ligonier Valley, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He was the third son of John Clarke, who became in the year 1839 prothonotary (chief clerk of the court) of Westmoreland County.