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Joel {2) and Martha (Pinney) Clark, was
born in Windsor, about 1766, and died
there, September 27, 1846, aged eighty
years. He married, at Windsor, January
13, 1791, Mercy Griffin, who died aged
eighty-two years, and whose father was
a soldier in the Revolution. Their children
were : Henry, of whom further
Emeline, who married Stephen Earle, and
lived at Penn Yan, New York; Delia,
who married a Mr. Stanley, and lived in
Vermont; Peneul, who served in the
French War of 1813 ; Eliza, who married
Adin Hunt, of Windsor ; Phelps, who
never married ; Electa, unmarried, and
Isaac Shelby, who married Phidelia
Phelps, and lived in Windsor until his
death, at the age of eighty-six years.
(VIII) Henry Clark, son of Captain
Grove and Mercy (Griffin) Clark, was
born in Windsor, and eventually ac-
quired an agricultural property in the
parish of Poquonock, Windsor, and there
passed his life. Pie married Chloe Riley.
Among their children was Lucius Pome-
roy, father of Albert H. and Robert L.,
who are the principal subjects of this
article.
(IX) Lucius Pomeroy Clark, son of
Henry and Chloe (Riley) Clark, was born
in Windsor village, August 19, 1825.
Opportunities for academic education
were in his day and place very limited,
and when only nine years of age he began
the serious work of life. Until he had
reached sixteen years he was employed
by neighboring farmers, but he then became
apprenticed to a carpenter and followed
carpentry for some years. One
employment in this connection was with
the Hartford Carpet Company, at Tariff-
ville, Connecticut, and for four years he
worked in the United States Armory at
Springfield, Massachusetts. In the win-
ter of 1861-62, he benefited by the will
of a maternal aunt, Mrs. Elisha Barber,
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the bequest being landed estate at Windsor.
This circumstance caused Mr. Clark
to resume agricultural occupations, and
it may be considered that from 1863 until
his death, which occurred on December
30, 1910, he did practically no carpentering,
saving perhaps such as became
necessary on his own farm. In the spring
of 1865 ne purchased the farm now owned
by his sons, and then known as the Guy
Griswold farm. It was impoverished,
but hard work and judicious management
made it eventually one of the most pro-
ductive estates of its size in the town.
He was highly esteemed in the town, his
success in business having been won by
strictly honest methods. Staunchly Re-
publican in politics, Mr. Clark might have,
had he wished, held public office. But he
was more concerned in doing one thing
well than two things moderately well,
and he had resolved to become a successful
and extensive tobacco grower and
that he became. In May, 1849, he mar-
ried Katherine, born March 2, 1830, died
March 14, 1907, daughter of Thomas and
Mary (Porter) McKnight, of Great Falls,
New Hampshire, and they were destined
to have each other's company for almost
fifty-eight years, Mrs. Clark's unfailing
help to her husband during' the early
years of their business enterprise consti-
tuting in all probability an important fac-
tor in his ultimate success. Their chil-
dren were: Albert H., and Robert L., of
both of whom further mention is made
below
(X) Albert H. Clark, son of Lucius
Pomeroy and Katherine (McKnight)
Clark, was born September 1, 1853, at
Tariffville, Connecticut, and for a time
was engaged in mercantile business at
Poquonock, but at present devotes his
entire time to the tobacco operations of
Clark Brothers. On April 19, 1900, he
married Ida A., daughter of George F.