A native of Vermont where he and his family were stonemasons, he moved to the Oregon Country in 1840 where he participated at the Champoeg Meetings, May 2, 1843, and helped to found Tualatin Academy that later became Pacific University.

[1] Harvey Clarke and his Party traveled overland with the Trapper Caravan from the States, leaving Westport on the Missouri River to travel across the plains, attend the 1840 Trapper Rendezvous in Green River, and on to Fort Hall where Joe Meek and his family were waiting.

[1] By 1842, Harvey and Emeline Clarke had moved to the North Tualatin Plains, built a small log home in Glencoe.

[5] In 1842, Clarke and his wife started a school for Native Americans at Glencoe in what is now Hillsboro to the east of Forest Grove.

[6] A few years later Tabitha Moffatt Brown arrived in Forest Grove and joined the Clarkes in operating a home for orphans.

[6] Marsh Hall at the school is situated where the three original land claims of the town’s founders met, including Clarke’s.