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the exception of the time spent in the army during the late civil war.
He enlisted in 1862, at the age of seven- teen, joining company B, of the 46th regiment Massachusetts volunteers. This was a nine months' regiment, and was stationed in North Carolina, and with the army of the Potomac. Colonel Clark was then a non-commissioned officer of his company. After returning from the war he entered the employ of E. H. Flagg, and learned the drug business, remaining with Mr. Flagg until he retired from busi- ness.
Since 1876 he has been registrar of the Holyoke water-works. Colonel Clark has taken great interest in educational matters, having been a member of the school board continuously for eleven years, and is now vice-chairman of that body. He has been prominent in G. A. R. affairs, and was commander of Post 71 for five years. In
social, benevolent and musical societies he has been a leading spirit.
In military affairs Colonel Clark has always taken a prominent part. He was a sergeant in Co. K, 2d regiment in 1868, and elected captain, June 4, 1869. August 14, 1871, he was commissioned major of the 2d regiment, and August 31, 1875, lieutenant-colonel. Upon the re-organi- zation of the militia in 1876, Colonel Clark was discharged with all other officers above the rank of captain. He again entered service as captain of Co. D, 2d regiment, December 23, 1878, and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the regiment, August 2, 1879, which position he held until February 2, 1889, when he was elected colonel.
Colonel Clark is popular with the militia, and is an able officer and strict disciplin- arian.
He was married in 1866 to Eliza A., daughter of Perley and Julia M. (Field) Seaver. Of this union are four children : Kate E., Edward S., Frederick B. and Alice M. Clark.
CLARK, ISAIAH RAYMOND, son of Ripley and Mary Ann (Raymond) Clark, was born in Felchville, Windsor county, Vermont, January 1, 1853.
His early educational training was re- ceived in the public schools of Felchville and Windsor, Vt. Fitting for college , he entered Dartmouth, from which he was graduated in the class of 1873.
Choosing the profession of the law, he pursued his studies with the Hon. A. A. Ranney, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in February, 1876, since which time he has continued in the honorable and successful practice of his profession in the city of Boston, where he resides.
Mr. Clark was married in Windsor, Vt., November 14, 1878, to Katherine, daughter of Charles and Jane (Rowley) Cummings.
CLARK, JAMES WILSON, son of Peter and Elizabeth (Wilson) Clark, was born in Hopkinton, Middlesex county, April 13, 1802.
His early education was limited to the common schools of those days, and his occupation was the usual one for a lad living on a farm. At eighteen years of age he entered a factory store in Med- way, as clerk, remaining four and a half years, then served for eighteen months as clerk in a store in Boston.
In 1826 he went into business, keeping a variety store in Medway, where he re- mained until 1829. He then removed to
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Boston, and there, and in New York, carried on the American dry goods com- mission business until 1865, when he re- tired. He resided in Boston until 1846 only, then removed to Framingham, where he still resides.
Mr. Clark was married in Medway, February 14, 1828, to Mary Ann, daughter of George and Lois (Whiting) Barber. Of this union was one child : George Barber (deceased). He was married the second time in Worcester, March 24, 1842, to Catharine Monroe, daughter of Dr. David and Catharine (Monroe) March, of Sutton. Of this union were six children : Edmund Sanford, Catharine Elizabeth, Emily Jo- honot, Frances Augusta, James Wilson, and Arthur March Clark. (Catharine and Frances deceased).
Mr. Clark was thirty years director in the Framingham National Bank (1849 to '79), and many years its president ; direc- tor in South Framingham National Bank (1880 to '89), also its president ; two years president of the South Middlesex Agricul- tural Society (1856 and '57) ; representa- tive to the General Court five consecutive years (1861 to '65); was one of a delega- tion in 1866 from Massachusetts to meet delegations from all the States of the Union to consider and compare the politi- cal opinions of the Republican party with regard to its status at the time, and its future policy. Their meeting was in Phila- delphia, September of that year.
In 1871 he was state senator. In 1873, by appointment of Governor Washburn, he attended, as commissioner, the exposition at Vienna, Austria. He has been justice of the peace twenty-one years ; member of the American Pomological Society, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the New England Historic Genealogical So- ciety ; director in the Tremont and Suffolk Mills, Lowell, and in the Bates Manufac- turing Company, Lewiston, Me.
He has made many voyages across the Atlantic, and has spent portions of several years in Europe, both for business and recreation.
Mr. Clark is an active Republican. Hc voted for John Quincy Adams for presi- cent of the United States, and for John Bailcy for representative to Congress, in 1824, and has voted for every Whig and Republican nominee for these offices since.
CLARK, JEREMIAH, son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Bullock) Clark, was born Feb- ruary 11, 1819, in Washington, Orange county, Vermont. He drew his education from the common schools.
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He entered the Lowell Machine Shop to learn the trade of machinist in 1836, re- maining there thirty years, having for some time been contractor for tools and cotton machinery.
He then went into business as manufac- turer of card clothing, and organized the Lowell Card Company in 1873, of which he is president. In 1886 he became presi- dent of the Mechanics' Savings Bank. He is now a heavy dealer in both new and second-hand machinery.
Mr. Clark was married in Lowell, 1840, to Lucy, daughter of Samuel and Eunice (Jaquith) Chamberlain. They have no children.
Mr. Clark was called by his city to serve in the common council in 1852. He was elected to the House of Representatives, 1860 and '61, and to the Senate, 1873.
He was two years president of the Mechanics' Association of Lowell, is now one of the trustees of the Old Ladies' Home, trustee of the Young Women's and Children's Home, Lowell, and has been treasurer of the Worthen Street M. E. church since 1860.
CLARK, JONAS G., the son of William S. and Elizabeth Clark, was born in Hub- bardston, Worcester county, February 1, 1815. His father was a farmer, and the son worked on the farm until the age of eighteen, laying the physical foundation for a sturdy manhood.
He then learned a trade, in which he later built up an extensive business. His affairs enlarged, and from a central office in State Street, Boston, he managed the general business of several stores he had established.
In 1836 he married Susan W., daughter of Bildad and Rhoda Wright.
In 1853, leaving manifold interests, he went to San Francisco, where he remained five years. He has since twice revisited the Pacific coast.
His transactions in California were fairly successful, but the largest proportion of his great wealth has been accumulated since he located in New York City, thirty years ago, establishing the office there which he still retains.
His acquaintance with business men and moneyed institutions secured him ad- vantages he was able to turn to good account, but the sources of his vast accu- mulations, and the germs of his uniform success, go back to his careful training among the New England hills.
Mr. Clark has so managed his business that he has been enabled to allow long in-
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tervals for rest and study, which have been devoted to extensive travel. This has ex- tended to every country in Europe, as well as to Africa and the Orient. Eight years of his life have been thus spent.
During these years of travel and con- genial study, no subject was more atten- tively investigated and more deeply im- pressed, than the ways and means by which knowledge is perpetuated and diffused among men.
The origin and development of univer- sities were studied by visiting not only the earliest seats of mediæval learning, Salerno, Cordova, Montpellier, etc., but Thebes,
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Heliopolis, Memphis, Alexandria, Jerusa- lem, Constantinople, Athens, and other of the original but now practically obliterated centres of academic life, were also explored and their records collected and studied. The migrations of ancient libraries and manuscripts were traced, and a collection of rare and early books was made. Foun- dations, applying the highest special cul- ture of one generation to the best and brightest youths of the next, were seen to be the most valuable of all human insti- tutions.
This has resulted in the crowning work of his life -the founding and endowment of Clark University of Worcester. This
University is established for the purpose of bringing within the reach of American youths the advantages of a training which embraces the most desirable features of the French, German and American institu- tions, and of furnishing a higher grade of academic and professional training than is now supplied in the universities of this country.
Mr. Clark is an enthusiastic lover of books, and knows them thoroughly. He possesses, as the result of patient research for many years, a large collection of rare volumes in his library, which is probably the most complete and costly private col- lection of early manuscripts and choice old first editions in the Commonwealth. He has also a large collection of valuable works of art that he has made it the pleas- ure of his life to collect. This library will be transferred to the University.
The University and its endowment, al- though the largest, is but one of his many generous bequests. Hubbardston, his na- tive place, owes a free public library and town building with an endowment to him alone. He is one of the few who seek to benefit the world by a judicious use of their wealth, before they are called by death to relinquish it to the control of others.
CLARK, SCHUYLER, son of Reuben and Catherine (Green) Clark, was born in Coeymans, Albany county, New York, August 15, 1841. He is a lineal descend- ant of Oliver Clark, born in 1714, who settled in Montgomery, Hampden county, 1767, and where the family has always been prominent. His mother is from revolu- tionary stock, the daughter of Daniel Green (Albany county, N. Y.), and her maternal grandfather served through the war of the revolution.
He was educated in the common schools of Huntington, Mass. His early life was spent on a farm, his occupation varied by occasional school teaching. Later, he was engaged a few years as traveling salesman, usually teaching during the win- ter months.
He next studied law, and was admitted to the Hampshire county bar. He formed a partnership with George Kress, of Hunt- ington, under the firm name of Kress & Clark.
Mr. Clark was married in Huntington, September, 1869, to Frances L., daughter of Elijah N. and Sarah A. Woods. Of this union there is no issue.
Mr. Clark has often been called to serve his town and state in municipal and legis-
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lative offices. He was at one time a member of the school board, and has been chairman of the selectmen, assessors, and overseers of the poor from 1881 to the present time. He represented his district
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in the House of Representatives 1888, serv- ing on the committee of county estimates and water supply -clerk of the latter committee.
His church connections are with the Congregational church, of which he has been a member and officer for a number of years.
He has been for ten years a general correspondent for the leading newspapers in western Massachusetts.
Mr. Clark is an ardent Republican and a consistent worker in the temperance cause.
CLARK, SETH W., son of Chester and Minerva (Jones) Clark, was born in Plain- field, Hampshire county, September 22, 1833.
Until eighteen years of age, the common schools furnished his educational training. He subsequently attended Arms Academy and the high school, Shelburne Falls, for two or three years.
He began his business life as bank clerk in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he remained one year. He was afterwards cashier and
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accountant in New York City for six years. He finally chose agricultural pursuits as better suited to his health than a special commercial career, and has ever since been engaged in farming; making the dairy a specialty for the past eight years. In earlier life he devoted considerable of his leisure time to photography, music and the invention of various mechanical devices.
He is president of the Cummington Creamery Association; vice-president of the Hillside Agricultural Society at Cum- mington, also its delegate to the state board of agriculture. He has held the office of president and general manager of the Cummington Creamery Company since its organization in 1886. He has for a year past lectured in various parts of the State upon the subject of co-operative dairying, under the auspices of the state board, the substance of the lecture being published by the board in their report of 1888.
Mr. Clark has been deacon in the Con- gregational church twelve years ; superin- tendent of Sunday-school fifteen years ; member of the school board seventeen years ; seven years on the board of select- men, assessors, and overseers of the poor - three years its chairman. He has served three years as tax collector. He took the town census in the years 1875 and 1885
Mr. Clark was married in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 3, 1855, to Nancy, daughter of Jacob and Lucy H. (Howes) Jones. Of this union are six children : Ella M, Frederic D., Harry D , Alice C., Marion N. and Frank S. Clark (deceased).
His residence is Plainfield.
CLARK, WILLIAM ROBERT, son of Robert and Phila (Griswold) Clark, was born in Greenfield, Franklin county, Sep- tember 26, 1822.
He prepared for college at Newbury Seminary, Vt., and at the Wesleyan Acade- my, Wilbraham. He then entered the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1848, and graduated in 1852.
He was a member of the Eclectic Fra- ternity, and of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Wesleyan University chapter.
In 1844 he joined the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was stationed at Petersham, and afterwards at Springfield. In 1847 he located, and pursued his collegiate studies. In 1852 he rejoined the New England Conference and was stationed at Malden.
In 1853 he was superannuated on account of ill-health, and in 1854-5 stationed at Walnut Street, Chelsea ; 1856-7 Bromfield Street, Boston ; 1858-9 Common Street,
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Lynn ; 1860-'I St. Paul's church, Lowell ; 1862 transferred to Maine Conference and stationed at Portland ; 1864-'6 re-admitted to New England Conference, and stationed at Pynchon Street, Springfield ; 1867-'9 Meridian Street, East Boston ; 1870-'3 served as presiding elder, Boston district ; 1874-'6 stationed at Trinity Church, Charlestown ; 1877-'9 Saratoga Street, East Boston ; 1880 supernumerary -in poor health : 1881-'3 Jamaica Plain, Bos- ton ; 1884-'6 St. Paul's, Lynn ; and 1887-'9 Newton Centre.
In 1864 Mr. Clark was a delegate of the United States Christian Commission, and in 1869 received an honorary D. D. from Lawrence University, Wisconsin ; in 1872 was fraternal delegate to a conference of Wesleyan Methodists in eastern British America ; 1868, '72 and '76 delegate to General Conference Methodist Episcopal church.
In 1866, '67, '68, and in 1876, '77, '78, '79, he was a member of the missionary and church extension committees of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He has held a long and honorable career as an intelligent, eloquent and conscien- tious religious teacher.
June 9, 1845, Mr. Clark was married to Eliza, daughter of Aaron and Louisa (San- derson) Brooks of Petersham. Their chil- dren are Anne Eliza and Ellen Urania Clark.
Mr. Clark is trustee of the Boston Uni- versity, and secretary of its board of trust, director of the New England Education Society, the New England Methodist His- torical Society, the New England Chau- tauqua Sunday-school Assembly, and the Wesleyan Home, and president of the board of directors of the South Framing- ham Camp Meeting Association.
CLARKE, AUGUSTUS PECK, son of Seth Darling and Fanny (Peck) Clarke, was born in Pawtucket, Providence county, R. I., September 24, 1833.
He prepared for college at the Univer- sity grammar school, Providence, R. I., and was graduated from Brown University in the class of 1860, and received from that university the degree of A. M. He studied medicine in the Harvard medical school and received the degree of M. D. in the class of 1862.
August 1, 1861, he entered the service of the United States army as assistant- surgeon of the 6th regiment New York cavalry, and was on duty in this capacity with the Army of the Potomac until May 5, 1863, when he was promoted to the rank of surgeon of that regiment. No-
vember, 1863, he was assigned to duty as surgeon -in - chief of the 2d brigade, Ist division of Sheridan's cavalry, and served as such until the opening of the campaign in February, 1865, when he was appointed surgeon-in-chief of the ist cavalry divis- ion, Sheridan's corps, of the Army of the Potomac, which position he held until the close of the war. He was mustered out October, 1865, and was appointed "brevet lieut .- colonel, New York State volunteers, for faithful and meritorious conduct dur- ing his term of service." During this more than four years' service he was present and on duty in eighty - two battles and engagements, viz .: from the battle of York- town, Va, May 4, 1862, to Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865.
During the seven days' battles of the Peninsular campaign in 1862, Dr. Clarke was taken prisoner at the battle of Savage Station, Va., June 29th, was afterward sent to Richmond, and on August Ist, after much suffering, was exchanged. Immedi- ately after the close of his military service, he removed to Cambridge, where he soon
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established a reputation in the practice of medicine, in which profession he has since continued his labors.
Dr. Clarke was married in Bristol, R. I., October 23, 1861, to Mary H., daughter of
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the late Gideon and Hannah Orne Gray. Of this union are two daughters : Inez Louise and Genevieve Clarke.
He was elected to the Cambridge com- mon council in 1871 and 1873, and to the board of aldermen, 1874, but declined further political service. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and has been one of its councilors ; is vice- president of the Gynæcological Society of Boston ; member of the American Acad- emy of Medicine ; the American Associa- tion of Obstetricians and Gynæcologists, and of the American Public Health Asso- ciation, also of the American Medical Association. He was one of the origina- tors of the Cambridge Medical Society, and was its secretary several years ; also mem- ber of the Ninth International Medical Con- gress ; has been a frequent contributor of articles to different medical societies and journals. He is a prominent member of the Cambridge Club and Art Circle, holds his church connection with the First Baptist church of Cambridge, is one of its standing committee, and also a mem- ber of the Boston Baptist Social Union. He is a member of several charitable and fraternal societies, member of the G. A. R. and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
CLARKE, JOSIAH HOWE, son of Benja- min and Lucy (Howe) Clarke, was born in Marlborough, Middlesex county, December 26, 1827. He was educated in the public schools of Marlborough, and at Leicester Academy.
He entered business life as partner in the firm of Bucklin, Clarke & Co., in Marl- borough, in 1847. In 1850 he went to Worcester, and in 1853 engaged in the dry goods business.
Mr. Clarke was married in Worcester, December 15, 1858, to Frances C., daughter of Horace and Mary (Woodworth) Ayres. Of this union were four children : Mary Woodworth, Fanny Ayres, Josiah Howe, Jr., and Grace Howe Clarke (deceased).
Mr. Clarke is director of the Worcester National Bank, State Mutual Life Insur- ance Company, State Deposit Company, Norwich & Worcester R. R., Worcester & Shrewsbury R. R., Worcester Gas Light Company, and Mckay & Bigelow Heeling Association ; member of All Saints' church (Episcopal), of which he has been for twenty-five years vestryman.
He was a member of the city council in 1862. In January, 1865, Mr. Clarke sailed for China in the ship "Surprise," owned by A. A. Low & Co. After visiting the
ports of Shanghai and Ningpo, he remained at Fuchau some time, his brother being consul at that port. He then went to Amoy, Canton and Hong Kong, and sailed
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from the latter port for San Francisco, coming home by way of the Isthmus, com- pleting a voyage around the world. In 1888 he visited California and Oregon.
CLEMENT, EDWARD HENRY, son of Cyrus and Rebecca Fiske (Shortridge) Clement, was born in Chelsea, Suffolk county, April 19, 1843.
He received his early education in the, public schools of Chelsea ; was graduated from Tufts College in 1864, leading his class, and subsequently received from the same institution the degree of A. M.
His first entrance into business life was as reporter and assistant editor on an army post newspaper started with the deserted plant of the "Savannah (Ga.) News" by two correspondents of the' "New York Herald" stationed at Hilton Head, S. C., 1864-'65. A northern editor being dis- tasteful to the Savannah public, he returned to Boston in 1867, and for one month served as head proof-reader of the " Daily Advertiser." He resigned this to accept a similar position offered him on the "New York Tribune." On reaching the "Trib- une" office he was made a reporter by
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John Russell Young, then managing editor, and soon after became exchange editor and assistant, subsequently telegraph editor, night editor and city editor. Afterwards he was for a short time managing editor of the " Newark (N. J.) Daily Advertiser," and in 1871 became one of the editors and pro- prietors of the " Elizabeth (N. J.) Journal."
Mr. Clement is now editor of the " Bos- ton Transcript," having been appointed assistant editor in 1875, and chief editor in ISSI. He honorably follows a long line of able and influential editors, men who have given a character and literary flavor to the paper, which still holds its own as a favorite family guest. It is greatly to the credit of the present management that the " Transcript " maintains the high stand- ard of public spirit, good morals and lit- erary excellence outlined by such con- ductors as Epes Sargent, Daniel N. Has- kell, E. P. Whipple and Starr King, with William Durant especially contributing, as for half a century past, to its financial success.
In 1869, in New York City, Mr. Clement was married to Gertrude, daughter of John and Jane (Lauder) Pound. Of this union were four children.
He has been a member of the corpora- tion of Perkins Institution for the Blind, director in the Boston Memorial Associa- tion, Philharmonic Society, Home for Intemperate Women, and was one of the founders and the namer of the St. Botolph Club.
The Clement family came from Coven- try. England, in 1643, and settled Haver- hill, after a brief stay at Salisbury, at the mouth of the Merrimack River. Robert Clement, the head of the family, was a man of education and leadership, and was chosen to buy and survey the territory of Haverhill, obtaining a title from the In- dians, afterwards representing the town in the General Court. His mill was the first in the town, and the marriage of his son with an Osgood was the first marriage in Haverhill. Many of his lineal descend- ants are spread through New Hampshire and Vermont.
CLEMENT, GEORGE COLBURN, son of James H. and Clara (Erskine) Clement, was born in Milford, Worcester county, August 15, 1855.
He was educated at home until 1867, then for two years in the family of Mrs. James Means of Andover, and subsequently was fitted for Dartmouth College in the boarding school of Dr. Lloyd W. Hixon, Lowell.
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He entered Dartmouth in 1871 and remained one year, then went to Bellevue Hospital medical college, New York City, for one year. In 1876 he entered the Harvard medical school and completed his course, graduating in the class of 1878, but as he accepted an appointment in Boston City Hospital, he did not receive his diploma until 1880. Before he began his professional studies he made a voyage to the Mediterranean as cabin-boy. This was during the Franco-Prussian war. While a pupil of the late A. B. Crosby, M. D., professor of anatomy at Bellevue, N. Y., he had an attack of serious lung trouble, and the interim from the fall of 1873 until he resumed his studies, he passed by travel- ing in Chili, Peru, California and the West. Within twelve months he rounded Cape Horn three times.
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