 John S. Clark was born on 21 March 1885 in Glasgow , Scotland , to parents James Souttar Clark , a coach @-@ painter , and Maggie Clark ( née Scott ) . At an early age , Clark had an interest in entomology throughout his years in Glasgow and adult life in Australia . Clark migrated to Australia in 1905 with little formal education but found himself working for the state railways in Queensland . There , he found an interest in ants and made his first collection of specimens in North Queensland . In May 1908 , Clark married his first wife , Maggie Forbes , at the Cairns Presbyterian Church . After their marriage , they moved to Geraldton in Western Australia , where Clark worked for the railways as a wheelwright . He had one son and three daughters with Forbes ; Forbes would later die from heart disease in 1935 . 
