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2 unusual facts about Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr.


Meriwether Clark

Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr. (1846–1899), son of the above, businessman and horse racing manager

Meriwether Lewis Clark, Sr.

Their son, Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr., would become a prominent member of Louisville society, promoting horseracing and building, with help from his Churchill relations, the famous racetrack Churchill Downs.


Battle of Sailor's Creek

Most Confederates surrendered, including generals Ewell, Kershaw, Custis Lee, Seth M. Barton, James P. Simms, Meriwether Lewis Clark, Sr., Dudley M. Du Bose, Eppa Hunton, and Montgomery D. Corse.

Meriwether Clark

Meriwether Lewis Clark, Sr. (1809–1879), son of William Clark, U.S. Army officer and Confederate general in the American Civil War

Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr.

His father was Major Meriwether Lewis Clark Sr., "aide de camp" and in-law to General Stephen Watts Kearny, of Mexican-American War fame (Kearny married Mary Radford, the stepdaughter of Clark).


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Judith River

(In fact, ultimately she did; their grandson, Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr., was a Colonel in the U.S. Army and later a founder, with his extended family, of the Kentucky Derby.)