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and Jane (Smith) Hardy, of Holyoke,
Massachusetts, but formerly of Poquonock,
Connecticut, where Ida A. was
born. To Albert H. and Ida A. (Hardy)
Clark was born a son, George Lucius,
now living with his parents on the Clark
homestead.
(X) Robert L. Clark, son of Lucius
Pomeroy and Katherine (McKnight)
Clark, was born in Tariffville, January 28,
1856, and early became associated with
his father and elder brother in the busi-
ness of tobacco growing on the paternal
estate. He married Hattie L. Day, who
died in March, 1886. To them was born
a son, Frank S., in October, 1878. He
now is an independent and prosperous
farmer at Poquonock.
The brothers, Albert H. and Robert
L. Clark, have been the directing heads
of the Clark tobacco interests since the
retirement and death of their father.
They are aggressive and shrewd managers,
and were well trained in a good
school—that of hard work under the
watchful interested eye of their father,
who worked perhaps even harder than
they. They became expert in all phases
of agriculture, but especially in the
culture of tobacco. Their Connecticut
tobacco lands are more than seventy-five
acres in extent, their product being alto-
gether shade-grown tobacco. An average
of one hundred hands are employed on
the estate during the harvesting season,
and, generally, the business is of such
extent as to keep the brothers quite fully
occupied for a considerable portion of
each year. They probably are the larg-
est individual owners in Connecticut of
shade-grown tobacco, and the extensive
tobacco sheds on the estate are all
equipped with the most modern improvements
for the curing and production of
high grade tobacco. As practical growers,
the Clark brothers are always ready
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to co-operate in any movement that may
tend to interest and benefit the tobacco
industry, especially that of Connecticut,
and for the last six years they have been
connected with and financially interested
in the Sumatra Tobacco Company, a com-
bine of extensive interests in Georgia,
Florida and Connecticut. The Sumatra
Tobacco Company take the whole of the
crop from the Clark property, but the
brothers are owners of all the land and
buildings used by the company, under
lease.
And, generally, the brothers are rec-
ognized as leading residents of the
Windsor district of Connecticut; both
are members of the Windsor Business
Men's Association, and both were
active organizers of the movement
which established the Poquonock Grange,
of which they are still enthusias-
tic members. Neither brother has taken
political office, and both are very busy
men of business, taking good part in the
maintenance in profitable productive industry
of the State of Connecticut. Rob-
ert L. Clark also comes into financial cir-
cles of the district in his capacity of direc-
tor of the Windsor Trust and Safe
Deposit Company.
GRISWOLD, Frederick Albert,
Insurance Actuary.
Frederick Albert Griswold, of Weth-
ersfield, manifests in his personality cer-
tain praiseworthy characteristics inher-
ited from forebears who took valiant part
in the early upbuilding of this Nation.
The annals of the State of Connecticut
bear testimony to, and record of, the
activities within its borders of many
worthy ancestors of the subject of this
present writing, the Griswold family
name having held creditable place in the
legislative, military and business life of