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est gifts to man, in spite of misconstruc-
tion. He believes that truth is indestructible,
that right is might, and must
prevail, that each one has a part to do
in overcoming error, and that the more
Christ is exemplified in the life of indi-
viduals the sooner the millennium will
arrive. Victor Hugo, Theodore Parker,
James Freeman, Clark Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Philips Brooks and Andrew
D. White are favorites of his.
He is fond of men ;
by their fruits ; and
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he estimates them
reckons as his friends
many whom he has not seen. He regards
Lincoln as the marvel of his age.
Grant unexcelled as a conqueror, peacemaker
and reconciler of discordant sections,
and Chief Justice Marshall, Daniel
Webster, Senator Orville H. Piatt, and
Horace Gray, Associate Justice, United
States Court, he looks upon as Master
Builders of Constitutional Law and Civil
Liberty as established and enforced in
the United States. He loves his home,
presided over by his daughter, Myrtle B.,
where his invalid wife is confined, and
there he spends most of his time when
not engaged in business, and there he
finds great delight in the company of his
wife and their daughters and friends.
Mr. Wood, on April 19, 1876, married
Roselle E. Weaver, at Chester, Connecticut,
and they have two daughters : Myrtle
Beatrice, and Ruth W., who married
William Foulds, Jr., and resides in Manchester.
Judge Wood became seventy
years of age, May 29, 1918, and retired
from the office of judge of probate at that
date by Constitutional Limitation, hav-
ing served as judge of probate continu-
ously since 1889.
CLARK, Albert H. and Robert L.,
Tobacco Growers.
The brothers. Albert H. and Robert L.
Clark, of Popuonock, Windsor, Connecti-
no
cut, are probably the largest individual
owners of Connecticut land upon which
shade-grown tobacco is the main crop,
and their success is in great measure due
to their own superior qualities in conducting
a business in which no haphaz-
ard conditions are present. Their agri-
cultural operations have, from the outset,
been stamped by an efficiency and
method as clearly defined as that to be
found in a well directed factory ; and
they fully appreciate that it is only by
such close up-to-date supervision of the
work in hand that noteworthy success is,
in these days of strenuous competition
and high labor cost, achieved. The extent
of their success may be gauged by
the knowledge that upon their Connects
cut plantations over one hundred hands
find employment during the harvesting
season. The brothers are factors in the
tobacco growing circles of Connecticut,,
and also for the last six years have been
identified with the Sumatra Tobacco
Company, which has extensive interests
in Georgia, Florida and Connecticut.
Clark is a name frequently encountered
in Colonial records of Connecticut. The
two brothers, who are of the tenth gen-
eration from that of Joseph Clarke, progenitor
in America, worthily continue, by
their industry, a connection that has been
honorable and unbroken since the first
Clark came into the colony in 1637
; a
connection unbroken also in its association
with the affairs of the town of Wind-
sor since then.
Joseph Clark, according to the "Genea-
logical and Family History of the State
of Connecticut" (Lewis Historical Publishing
Company, 191 1), is stated to have
been the founder of the old Colonial New
England family of that name of the line
generally supposed to have been headed,,
as American progenitor, by the Hon.
Daniel Clark, an early settler in the town
of Windsor, Connecticut. That author