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burg, leaving his property to found a hospital for the sick poor of Parkers- burg, among whom he had worked all his life.

He had his medical education at the Transylvania University, Lexington, and studied under Dr. Hugh McGuire of Winchester. He was a close student and kept well ahead of the times and was held in high esteem. W. H. S.

Clark, John (1598-1664).

John Clark was born in England, 1598, and settled in Newbury, Massachusetts in 1633 and was admitted freeman May 22, 1639. About 1650 he removed to Boston and was much distinguished as a physi- cian and a keeper of fine horses. He died in November 1664 leaving in his will among other things, stoves for saving firewood, for which the general court had given him a patent for life in 1652. Savage remarks: "How much these anticipated Franklin's invention of a hundred years later, I suppose can never be learned."

The founder of the Clark family of physicians in America, the subject of this sketch received a diploma in England for his success in cutting for stone, though nothing with referrence to this is discover- able in print. He is supposed to have introduced a breed of horses into this country, long known in Plymouth as Clark's breed.

In his will he left his son John, besides his books and instruments, "horses, mares and colts, both in this colony of Mass- achusetts and in Plymouth colony." An oil painting of Dr. John Clark is now in John Ware Hall in the Boston Medical Library, having been bequeathed to the library by two maiden ladies, surviving relatives, and is referred to in the wills of the Clarks. It must have been one of the earliest portraits made in America.

W. L. B.

A Biographical Diet, of First Settlors of N. E.

J. Savage, 1860.

A Genealog. Regis, of the First Settlers of

N. E. John Farmer, 1829.

Amer. Med. Biog., 1828. James Thacher.

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Clark, J. Henry (1814-1869).

J. Henry Clark was born in Livingston, New Jersey, June 23, 1S14, and received his M. D. at the New York University in 1841 after having studied both there and abroad. He established himself in New- ark, taking an active part in the local medical work, and while there wrote a history of the Newark cholera epidemic in 1849 and edited the works and biogra- phy of his father, the Rev. D. A. Clark, in 1855, also in 1856, he wrote a book on "Sight and Hearing, How Preserved and How Lost." His practice was chiefly ophthalmological and aural.

His death took place at his country house in Essex County, New Jersey, on March 6, 1869. H. F.

Trans. Am. Med. Assoc, vol. xxi. Trans. Med. Soc. of N. J., 1S69.

Clarke, Almon (1840-1904).

Almon Clarke was born in Granville, Vermont, October 13, 1840. When he was three years old his parents removed to Rochester, where he attended local schools, was a teacher himself when fif- teen, and at nineteen read medicine with the noted Huntingtons, who continuously practised in Rochester for a hundred years. He attended lectures at Castle- ton, and lastly at Ann Arbor, where he graduated March 26, 1862. Returning to Vermont, Dr. Clarke began practice near Montpelier. The country was then astir with the excitement of war, and in August, 1S62, Dr. Clarke found himself in camp at Brattleboro, as assistant surgeon of the tenth Vermont Infantry Volun- teers. When the army was reorganized, Dr. Clark's regiment was transferred to the first brigade, third division, sixth corps. In this famous corps command- ed by Sedgwick, and afterward by Wright, he served through the groat battles of The Wilderness, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, many of the fierce struggles before Petersburg (notably the last one, in which Richmond and Petersburg were captured), Sailor's Creek, Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek.