A record of the descendants of John Clark, of Farmington, Conn ...

tZ CLAUK GENEALOGY.
any
otlior individual in this State. All the details about
printing and di.stributinjr tickets, getting- returns of elections,
circulating circulars, etc., etc., were loft to him for many
years. His general health had been so excellent, that in the
thirteen years that the writer of this notice had been associ-
ated with him he had never been absent from the office for
more than a half day at a time. But in the fall of 1865 he
was prostrated with a bilious fever, which hung about him,
so that, March 3, 1866, he sailed for Savannah, being
time, as he observed to the writer, '
at that
Sick only in my legs, and
with a sore spot on my cheek.' But that sore spot continu-
ing to trouble him, he returned from the South, and on the
21st of April underwent what proved to be a most serious
operation, at the hands of Dr. Carnochan, of New York, for
scrofulous cancer. Everything that sm-gical skill, seconded
by the most faithful nursing, could do, was done ; but the
disease proved so malignant as to be utterly uncontrollahle
and after more than eleven months of anguish unutterable,
death came to his relief. Mr. Clark's cheerful courage in
undergoing the operation was such as to extort professional
comment, and his sufferings throughout were borne without
repining. His mind was clear and cheerful, and he looked
unflinchingly upon death, and the life beyond the grave. His
vitality and his tenacity of his usual habits was such that he
took to his bed only the day before he was relieved from suf-
fering.
" He leaves a widow and three sous. His pecuniary mat-
ters are in comfortable shape.
" So passes from among us one of our most respected citi-
zens, and one of the most generally known newspaper men in
the country.