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The mere mention of the busi- CLARK ness of the manufacturing of cotton goods to a citizen of New Jersey, will have the same effect that the men-
tion of the name of Slater has in Rhode Island, as the names are as familiarly connected with the cotton industry as is Watts with steam, Stephenson with the railroad locomotive, Ful- ton with the steamboat, and Whitney with the cotton gin.
Peter Colt, superintendent of the first cotton mill established in New Jersey by the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, and of which society Alexander Hamilton was an enthusiastic patron, wrote and signed a certifi- cate, dated August 22, 1817, in which he testi- fies that he (Mr. Clark) "made in company with a partner who worked in iron and brass, all the valuable machinery in the first cotton mill that was ever erected in this part of the country, and the first (as I believe) that was worked in America." He further states in the same certificate, "Mr. Clark has been a resi- dent of this town ever since the period first mentioned (1794), and has always carried on the business of making machines for spinning both cotton and the wool of sheep, and is a very able mechanic and an industrious citizen." This machinist, cotton and wool manufacturer and early fitter up of the first cotton mill in New Jersey was John Clark, of whom further. (I) John Clark, the immigrant, was born in Renfrewshire, Scotland, May 21, 1763. He was brought up to the machinist's trade and learned to make and set up looms in the cotton and woolen mills of his native country. Gen- eral Alexander Hamilton, one of the founders of the Society for Establishing Useful Manu- factures in the United States, was a personal friend of Mr. Clark and advised him to come to America to assist the society in their work. He embarked with his wife, Jane Slater, a native of Sterlingshire, Scotland, born May I, 1768, and who died in Paterson, New Jersey, May 30, 1838, and their two children, Jane and John Jr., both born in Renfrewshire, Scotland, and they landed in New York in 1794, after a long and tiresome voyage in a sailing vessel. The society under whose auspices the venture was made, sent the family to Paterson, where they established a home and the father began the manufacture of cotton spinners and looms. He formed a partnership with a fellow country- man who is described above as a worker in iron and brass, one McIlwhame, and March 18, 1799, the firm of McIlwhame & Clark render- ed an account for services rendered to the soci- ety to the amount of two thousand one hundred and one pounds four shillings two pence. Mr. Clark, besides manufacturing machinery for cotton and woolen mills, engaged prominently
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in the manufacture of woolen fabrics, and in fact became the principal founder of the textile industry in Paterson, where he died, October 12, 1830.
The children of John and Jane (Slater) Clark, with the exception of the first two born in Renfrewshire, Scotland, were born in Pater- son, New Jersey, as follows: I. Jane, October 5, 1791 ; married Robert Cunningham, a ma- chinist, of Paterson, New Jersey, where she died August 6, 1863. 2. John Jr., March 4, 1793 ; became first secretary of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, and with Thomas Rogers became manufacturer of cot- ton looms in the "Beaver Mill," erected by his father soon after his arrival. The firm of Goodwin, Clark & Rogers continued through- out the greater part of his life, and became known as the Rogers Locomotive Works, and was very profitably conducted. He died in Paterson, April 3, 1841. 3. William L., Octo- ber 5, 1795 ; managed the store connected with the cotton factory, fitted up by his father for Peter Colt, and subsequently became book- keeper for Rogers, Ketcham & Grosvenor, builders of steam locomotives. He died in Paterson, November 9, 1859. 4. Robert, Sep- tember 22, 1798; died March 9, 1869. 5. Elisha Boudinot, May 30, 1801; became a member of the firm of Clark & Robinson, cot- ton spinners, and occupied the mill site now owned by the Ivanhoe Paper Mill. He was a man of influence, held various prominent local offices in Paterson, and represented the district in the legislature of New Jersey. He died in Paterson, March 1, 1842. 6. Alexander, Octo- ber 17, 1803; died in Paterson; we find no record of date of death. 7. Henry (q. v.). 8. Edward (twin of Henry), February 14, 1807; worked as a machinist in the shop of his brother John, and in 1826 established an iron foundry in Paterson at the corner of Mulbury and River streets, and in 1829, in company with his brother Henry, engaged in the hardware business, which included mill supplies. He married, November 8, 1828, Ann, daughter of John and Mary McIntyre, of New York City. She was born May 26, 1812, and died Decem- ber 7, 1868. They had two children: Morton, who succeeded his uncle, Henry, in the hard- ware business, and Livingston, born April 22, 1841, died October 14, 1857. Edward Clark died in Paterson, New Jersey, May 15, 1875.
(II) Henry, sixth son and seventh child of John and Jane (Slater) Clark, was born in Paterson, New Jersey, February 14, 1807. He was a pupil in the public school of his native
city, and while quite young worked as a ma- chinist. In 1829 he engaged in the hardware business in partnership with his brother Ed- ward, and the business of "Clarks' Hardware Store" was continued for forty-six years by the twin brothers. He was a man of high character, and an elder in the First Presby- terian Church, of Paterson. He died at Pater- son, August 9, 1875. He married, in May, 1842, Catherine Van Winkle, born March I, 1816, died September 6, 1877, daughter of Edo and Jane ( Van Houton ) Van Winkle, of Pater- son, New Jersey. Catherine Van Winkle was of the seventh generation in line of descent from Jacob Van Winkle, who came from Hol- land in 1684 and settled in Bergen county, New Jersey. (See Van Winkle). Children : I. Henry Irving, born July 10, 1843 ; see below. 2. John Edo, born April 28, 1845; mentioned below. 3. Mary, born June 2, 1848; married, September 27, 1871, Andrew Kerr; children, born at Ilchester, Baltimore county, Maryland : i. Mary Clark, August 19, 1872, died Novem- ber 27, 1875; ii. Annie Couper, born October 21, 1873, married, June 23, 1905, Chauncy Owens Ransom; iii. Katherine Van Winkle, born September 17, 1876, now residing in Dun- murry, county Antrim, Ireland, married, June 16, 1908, Edward Percy Richardson, child- Eleanor Coates, born March 22, 1909; iv. Henry Clark, born May 8, 1878, married, June 7, 1905, Emma Pounds, child-John Clark, born May 20, 1907; v. William Morris, born July 22, 1879, married, April 24, 1907, Mercy Elizabeth Niblock, child-William Morris Jr., born July 15, 1909. 4. Catherine, born De- cember 3, 1850; married, December 1, 1886, Rev. George Bothwell, who died May 3, 1891 ; children: i. Mary Clark, born December 5, 1887: ii. Ada, born December 23, 1889. 5. David Burnett, born January 24, 1854; resides in Paterson, New Jersey. 6. William Livings- ton, born May II, 1857; see below.
(III) Henry Irving Clark, son of Henry (q. v.) and Catherine (Van Winkle) Clark, was born at Paterson, New Jersey, July 10, 1843. He attended various private schools in his native city up to September, 1855, under the tuition of Garret J. Hopper, when the pub- lic schools were started there with first-class teachers in all departments. The grammar school which he entered was in charge of Pro- fessor Samuel C. Hosford as principal, a very superior teacher. He remained a pupil in the public schools until 1857, at the same time studying Latin, as only English was taught in the schools, special attention being given to
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mathematics. In September, 1857, he entered the classical school of Professor Theodore Ryerson, and commenced preparation for col- lege. In March, 1859, his father requested him to relinquish the idea of going to college, and requested him to enter the hardware store of E. & H. Clark, in Paterson, New Jersey, in the capacity of clerk. He remained in that posi- tion until March, 1860, when he secured a posi- tion with T. Ketcham & Company, stock bro- kers, at No. I Hanover street, New York City. The following year, 1861, with the commence- ment of the civil war, a much greater activity was started in Wall street in stocks and bonds than this country had ever experienced before. He was admitted to the firm of T. Ketcham & Company in the early part of 1864, and was elected a member of the New York Stock Ex- change in November, 1864. He continued his connection with the firm until May, 1867, when the firm was dissolved. That same month he entered into partnership with William P. Ketcham, under the firm name of Ketcham & Clark, stock brokers. In 1868 his brother, John Edo Clark, became a member of the firm under the same firm name, and this relation continued until 1874 when the firm was dis- solved. In that same year was formed the firm of H. & J. Clark, composed of Henry Irving and John Edo Clark, both members of the New York Stock Exchange, which remain- ed in existence until February, 1893, when John E. Clark retired from business. In that
same month Henry I. Clark formed the firm of Henry I. Clark & Company, composed of Henry I. Clark, Herbert H. Clark, Elisha T. Everett. Henry L. Clark was admitted to membership in 1897 and Josiah H. Clark in 1902. On October 7, 1905, E. T. Everett re- tired from the firm. The firm of Henry I. Clark & Company, stock brokers, is still in existence at No. 80 Broadway, New York City. Mr. Clark is a Republican in politics, having cast his first vote for Lincoln and John- son in November, 1864. He has never held public office, preferring to devote his time and attention to business. He is a member of the Church of the Redeemer ( Presbyterian), of Paterson, New Jersey, and a member of the Hamilton Club, of Paterson.
Mr. Clark married, April 13, 1870, Ada Huntoon, born August 14, 1849, daughter of Josiah P. and Sarah M. ( Doremus) Huntoon. Children : 1. Herbert Huntoon, born March 7, 1871 ; married, June 23, 1897, Elspah John- son, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania ; child-Henry Irving (2), born April 24, 1899. 2. Josiah
Huntoon, born December 4, 1873. 3. Henry Livingston, born February II, 1876; married, September 12, 1900, Sarah Fifield, of Pater- son ; children : Edward Fifield, born July 21, 1903; Sarah Margaret, born December 14, 1905. 4. Meta, born June 15, 1879; mar- ried, April 5, 1906, Clifton F. Leatherbee, of West Newton, Massachusetts; child-Kath- erine, born March 2, 1907. 5. Florence, born October 21, 1882; married, April 13, 1905, Roger C. Turner, of Paterson ; children : Ada Ann, born June 1, 1906; Roger Chamberlain, September 1I, 1909.
(III) John Edo Clark, second son of Henry and Catherine (Van Winkle) Clark, was born at Paterson, New Jersey, April 28, 1845. His elementary educational training was in the best private and select schools of Paterson under the best instruction, and this was supplemented by a course in the public schools. He ranked high in his studies and graduated from the Pat- erson high school in 1860. Shortly afterward he entered the employ of E. & H. Clark as clerk in their hardware store, remaining about four years. Desiring to enter the mercantile world and make a mark for himself, he began a clerk- ship in the office of T. Ketcham & Company, bankers and stock brokers, at No. I. Hanover street, New York, during the civil war, when the brokerage business was at its height. By strict attention to the business in all its details and by his probity he rose to positions of greater responsibility and remuneration, be- coming thoroughly familiar in the purchase and sale of stocks and bonds of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1868 he was admitted a partner in the banking house of Ketcham & Clark, the firm having been formed in May, 1867, by Henry I. Clark, a brother of Mr. Clark, and William P. Ketcham. The three partners continued in active and prosperous business until 1874, when the firm was dis- solved and the two brothers, Henry I. and John E. Clark, entered into partnership under the firm name of H. & J. Clark, with quarters at No. 66 Broadway, and later removed to Wall street, where the business was continued under that name until 1893, when Mr. Clark retired, although he held his seat in the New York Stock Exchange until 1900, when he sold it and retired from all active business. Mr. Clark believed in outdoor exercise and recrea- tion, and became an ardent and active member of the North Jersey Golf Club, in which he held membership since its organization. He was a much respected member of the Hamilton Club, the leading social organization of Pater-
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son, taking a deep interest in its welfare. In political preferment he was a Republican of the true type that never sought public office.
In social as well as in private life Mr. Clark was a model man. At home he was the center of the affection of his sister's family, where for twenty-three years he watched over the welfare of her children with the tenderness of a fond parent. In the church, which was his supreme delight, he was a pillar, the same in which his father had been an elder. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and stood loyal to its interests when others with- drew from it. The religious element in his character was positive and of a high type. He was a close student of the faith of his fathers, yet was free from all cant and narrowness, and preserved through his life the pre-eminent christian character. John Edo Clark died at his residence on Hamilton avenue, November 7, 1909. To those who knew him best he was most strongly endeared. His very goodness made him noble and placed him on that plane above the common run of mankind. Always of the kindest and most lovable nature, John E. Clark was indeed a noble man. It was en- nobling to know him and to appreciate him. He was just to all and guarded in his word. "None were ever wounded by word or act of his, and his many excellent qualities of heart and mind shone brightly."
(III) William Livingston Clark, youngest child of Henry and Catherine (Van Winkle) Clark, was born at Paterson, New Jersey, May II. 1857. He attended the Paterson public schools, and this was supplemented by a course at the Paterson Seminary, where he prepared for college, entering the University of the City of New York, from which he graduated in 1877, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He subsequently received from the same insti- tution, the degree of Master of Arts in 1879. During this time he took a course at the Colum- bia Law School in New York City, and grad- uated in 1879 with degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the New York bar in June, 1879, and began the practice of law with Thomas Darlington, with offices at No. 7 Beek- man street, New York City. Mr. Clark has con- tinued in active practice in the city of New York continuously since that time. He was admitted to practice as an attorney and counsellor at law by the supreme court of New Jersey, where he has been largely engaged in the court of chan- cery. Mr. Clark was a resident of Paterson, New Jersey, from his birth until February 25, 1885, when he was united in marriage to Mary
E. Spencer, and removed to Brooklyn, New York, where he resided until April of the fol- lowing year, when he removed to Passaic, New Jersey. He was one of the first to erect a residence in his section of the city, and became active in promoting and improving the locality which has become the finest residential section of Passaic. He has taken an active interest in the conduct of the public affairs of Passaic for a number of years, relating to the growth and development of the city, and assisted in the formation of the Citizens' Association and Board of Trade, of Passaic. He was instru- mental with others in forming and organizing the Passaic Club, and became its first treasurer and second president. In addition to the Pas- saic Club he holds membership in the Acquack- anonk Club, of Passaic; the Yountakat Coun- try Club, and the Lotos Club, of New York City. In religion Mr. Clark retains the faith of his ancestors, and is a member of the Pas- saic Presbyterian Church, having served that body as its trustee for fifteen years. He is a Republican in politics. and served the third ward of his city as councilman from 1890 to 1893.
Mr. Clark married at Paterson, New Jersey, February 25, 1885, Mary E., born December I, 1861, daughter of Lucius F. and Caroline ( Deni- son ) Spencer. Lucius F. Spencer is a prominent resident of Passaic, New Jersey, and a descend- ant of Michael Spencer, a brother of Will- iam Spencer, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the early New England ancestor. The only child of this marriage is Mary Alice, born at Passaic, New Jersey, July 26, 1886.
The name Worthing- WORTHINGTON ton is derived from three Saxon words, "Wearth in ton," that is, "Farm in town," signifying a farm which formed part of a town or village, and as a surname was derived from the town or locality where those assum- ing it resided at the time surnames were adopt- ed. Twenty miles northeast of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, England, is the town or village of Worthington, in the hundred of Ledyard, parish of Standish. Here and in the adjoining territory resided the family of Worthington, founded in that name in the time of the Plantaganets, and for many generations of high repute, the elder male line being traced back to Worthington de Worthington, who was proprietor of Worthington Manor in the reign of Henry III., 1236-37, and was the progenitor of all the Worthingtons of Lancashire. The old manor house of Worthington, the residence
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of the family for seven years, was pulled down about a half century ago.
In the first quarter of the eighteenth cen- tury we find John, Thomas and Samuel Worth- ington resident in Byberry township, Philadel- phia county, Pennsylvania, all members of the Society of Friends, at Abington monthly meet- ing, but worshipping at the old Byberry meet- inghouse, then under the jurisdiction of Ab- ington monthly meeting. Tradition relates that they were all natives of Lancashire, and that they came to Pennsylvania about 1703. How- ever, since none of them were more than ten years of age at that date, if the statement is true they must have been accompanied to this country by parents or other relatives in the nature of guardians.
(I) John Worthington, ancestor of the sub- ject of this sketch, was born in Lancashire, England, about the year 1697. He was a resi- dent of Byberry township, Philadelphia coun- ty, Pennsylvania, when he married there, in 1720, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Paxson) Walmsley, of Byberry, and grand- daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Walmsley, who with their six minor children were among a group of members of Settle monthly meeting, Lancashire, who secured a certificate from that meeting in 1682, and, removing to Pennsyl- vania, settled in Bucks county, where Thomas died soon after his arrival. John Worthing- ton's name appears among the list of the mem- bers of Byberry preparative meeting who con- tributed to the fund for maintaining the poor in 1721, and he continued prominent in the affairs of that section until his death, January 14, 1777, at about the age of eighty years. John Worthington was a weaver and farmer, and spent his whole adult life on his plantation in the northern end of Byberry township. His wife, Mary ( Walmsley) Worthington, died April 18, 1754. The births of their six sons and five daughters are of record on the registry of Abington monthly meeting. Five of the sons and at least three of the daughters mar- ried and reared children, and all have left numerous descendants. Three of the sons, William, Isaac and Joseph, removed in middle life to that part of Buckingham township, Bucks county, bordering on Wrightstown town- ship, and many of the descendants of William and Joseph have ever since been residents of these two townships, Isaac removing later to Chester county.
(II) William, sixth child and third son of Thomas and Mary ( Walmsley) Worthington, was born in Byberry township, Philadelphia
county, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1732, and continued to reside in that township until 1770, when he removed to Buckingham township, Bucks county, whither he had been preceded by his two younger brothers, Joseph and Isaac. He purchased a farm on the line of Wrights- town township of his brother Isaac, and later purchased considerable other land adjoining, partly in both townships, and became one of the principal landowners and prominent men of his section. He was a birthright member of Abington monthly meeting of Friends, but was married at the Dutch Reformed Church, of North and Southampton, March 18, 1764, to Esther Homer, also a member of Abing- ton meeting. For this breach of the "good order maintained among Friends" complaint was brought to the monthly meeting by By- berry meeting, December 31, 1764, and they were "dealt with" by the meeting, but finally acknowledged their sorrow for the breach of discipline in a manner satisfactory to the meet- ing. On December 30, 1770, they obtained a certificate which included their four minor children, Mary, William, Jesse and John, to Wrightstown monthly meeting, Bucks county, with which they and their descendants were thereafter associated to the present time. There other children, Benjamin, Hiram and Esther, were born to them in Buckingham. William Worthington died on his plantation in Lower Buckingham, near the present village of Wy- combe, December 6, 1816, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. His widow Esther survived until January 23, 1832, at the age of eighty- nine years.
(III) Benjamin, son of William and Esther (Homer) Worthington, was born in Bucking- ham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, soon after the settlement of his parents in that township, about the year 1771. He married, October 21, 1795, Mary, daughter of Wat- son and Ruth (Bradshaw) Welding, of the "Rush Valley Mills," Wrightstown township, and took up his residence on a portion of his father's plantation in Buckingham, which he inherited at his father's death in 1816. He died in Buckingham, April 26, 1852. He and his wife were members of Wrightstown Friends' meeting, on the registry of which appears the record of the birth of their eight children, four of whom died before their parents. Mary (Welding) Worthington died September I, 1840. She was a great-granddaughter of Ely Welding, a native of New Jersey, who came to Buckingham from Abington in 1723 and died there about 1760, and his wife Elizabeth
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Beale. John Welding, son of Ely. married Hannah Watson, of Chesterfield, Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1747, and settled there the following year. He died prior to 1760, and his son Watson Welding returned to Buck- ingham and married, in 1771, Ruth, daughter of James and Ruth (Lowder) Bradshaw, of Upper Buckingham. He inherited the lands of his grandfather in Buckingham, but in 1793 purchased the historic old mills at Rushland, long known as Mitchell's Mills, in Wrights- town, on the old Swamp road. Watson Weld- ing died in Wrightstown, December 6, 1817. His wife Ruth died August 19, 1804.
(IV) Amasa, fourth child and eldest son of Benjamin and Mary ( Welding) Worthington, was born in Lower Buckingham, Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, January II, 1802. On April 7, 1832, his father and mother conveyed to him the homestead farm, on which he resided until 1851, when he purchased a large farm at the Chain Bridge over the Neshaminy, in Wrightstown, extending across the Neshaminy into Northampton township, and settled there- on. He owned at different periods several other properties in Buckingham, and was prom- inent in the affairs of the community in which he lived. He married Amy, daughter of John Spencer, of a family long prominent in mid- dle Bucks county, and both were active and consistent members of Wrightstown Friends' meeting. He died on his plantation at Chain Bridge, in Wrightstown, August 21, 1877. Am- asa and Amy (Spencer) Worthington had seven children who survived them, viz. : Sarah, widow of James Slack, deceased, a veteran of the civil war ; Mary Louise, unmarried ; Thad- deus S., born February 19, 1840, a farmer in Warwick township, Bucks county ; Benjamin, who acquired the Chain Bridge homestead at the death of his father in 1877, and died there ten years later ; Lucretia M., wife of Henry C. Buckman, farmer of Wrightstown ; John Spen- cer, of whom presently ; and Annie, unmarried. Mrs. Sarah (Worthington) Slack and her two unmarried sisters, Mary Louise and Annie Worthington, have resided since the death of their brother Benjamin at 106 Chancellor street, Newtown, Bucks county.
(V) John Spencer, sixth child and youngest son of Amasa and Amy (Spencer ) Worthing- ton, was born in Buckingham township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1848, but was reared on the old homestead at Chain Bridge, Wrightstown township, where his parents re- moved when he was three years of age. He
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