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 122 CLARK. CLARK. home life, but has accepted many positions of trust and responsibility which have been offered him by his own townsmen. He was commissioned justice of the peace in 1S59 ; he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church ; has been a life-long anti-slavery and temperance man ; was first a Whig, then a Republican, when that party came into existence. Mr. Clark has from his youth been a noted collector of minerals, historic relics, rare coins and general curiosities. Since retiring from active business he has de- voted most of his time to perfecting his large and comprehensive cabinets. These have attracted the wide-spread attention of scientists and students of geology, mineralogy, archaeology and numismatics. His study of the crystalline rocks of west- ern Massachusetts has resulted in the dis- covery, by J. D. Dana, of lower Silu- rian fossils from a metamorphic lime- DANIEL CLARK. stone of the Ticonic rocks of Emmons, which proves the whole Ticonic series to be of lower silurian age. Mr. Clark has been trustee of Lee Savings Bank, and was interested in the organization of the Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society. He was first married February 3, 1841, to Sophia, daughter of William and Lu- anda (Heath) Stedman. Mrs. Clark died November 11, 1872. He was again mar- ried in Springfield, March 18, 1880, to Juliette Smith White, daughter of Matthew and Clarissa (Moore) Smith. He has one son, Hamlin F. Clark, issue of first mar- riage. CLARK, David Harris, son of John B. and Harriet Loney (Cadett) Clark, was born in Dunham, Missisquoi county, P. Q., October 24, 1836, of American pa- rents. While he was quite young, his parents removed to De Peyster, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., where his father lately died, aged eighty-eight years, having been born in Canaan, N. H., in 1800. Mr. Clark obtained a common school education in the schools of De Peyster, and Natick, Mass., where he came in 185 1, being fifteen years of age. Here he learned the trade of shoemaker. In 1S5S occurred the great strike, in which he took an active part, and when work was resumed he was in Holliston, at work for Mr. John Batcheller, where he remained until 1861, when he enlisted in company B., 16th regiment Massachusetts volunteers, July 2d, of that year. He served through the term of enlistment, was wounded, taken prisoner, paroled, experi- enced all there was of pleasure and pain in a three years' campaign service, and was mustered out with the regiment at Faneuil Hall, Boston, July 27, 1864. He is now an operator on a McKay- Heeling Machine in the factory of John O. Wilson & Co., Natick, where he has worked for thirteen years. He was married in Sherborn, Mass., December 2, 1864, to Susan Augusta Loud, of Orrington, Maine. Their chil- dren are : Annie Louise and Ralph Loud Clark. Mr. Clark was representative to the General Court in 1888. He was a charter member of Post 6, G. A. R., Holliston, and was its adjutant two terms ; was command- er of Ezra Batcheller Post, North Brook - field ; while in North Brookfield was em- ployed in the factory of E. & A. H. Batch- eller & Co.; is a member of the I. O. O. F., and of the Grand Lodge of Massachu- setts ; has been master workman of local assembly 2,238, also dictator of King Philip Lodge, Knights of Honor. He is a member of the Congregational church, a worker in every benevolent en- terprise, a strong temperance advocate, a Republican, and a friend and champion of the laboring man.