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 126 CLARK. CLARK. 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 «u* SCHUYLER CLARK in the House of Representatives 18S8', 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, 183.V 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 lirooklyn, N. Y., where he remained one year. He was afterwards cashier and 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 Hdlside 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 1 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, YVilbraham. 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 1S44 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 Maiden. In 1853 he was superannuated on account of ill-health, and in 1S54— 5 stationed at Walnut Street, Chelsea ; 1856-7 Bromfield Street, Boston ; 1858-9 Common Street,