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Margaret Goff Clark � �A Friend of Niagara� Niagara County was fortunate indeed to be the home of noted children�s author, Margaret Goff Clark. Born in Buffalo, she was a Town of Niagara resident for 30 years.

Margaret Clark was a prolific author who penned and published over short stories, 50 poems, 25 one-act plays, and 24 mysteries, biographies and books on endangered species.

Margaret began writing children�s stories at the age of seven and wrote consistently thereafter.

She received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Buffalo State Teachers College and was one of the first two teachers at the Military Road School in the Town of Niagara.

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She received $ in for a poem, her first payment from writing. Although she did earn much more for her later works, Clark remembered that she didn�t get rich from writing, but the income came in handy for putting her son and daughter through school.

Her first book, �The Mystery of Seneca Hill,� led to her adoption by the Seneca Indian