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the hundreds <strong>of</strong> secretaries who will be<br />
left in charge <strong>of</strong> providing comfort and<br />
entertainment for the American soldiers.<br />
Mr. Mulligan left this country for France<br />
in April, 1918, and remained there until<br />
the purpose for which he had been sent<br />
was accomplished. In his religious be-<br />
lief Mr. Mulligan is a Roman Catholic<br />
and attends Saint Patrick's Church <strong>of</strong> this<br />
denomination at Thompsonville.<br />
William Joseph Mulligan was united in<br />
marriage, June 15, 1905, at Xew Haven,<br />
<strong>Connecticut</strong>, with Kathleen Byron Keefe,<br />
a daughter <strong>of</strong> William Joseph and Jane<br />
(Harringan) Keefe, old and well known<br />
residents <strong>of</strong> Xew Haven, <strong>Connecticut</strong>,<br />
where Mr. Keefe was engaged in a large<br />
furniture business. To Mr. and Mrs.<br />
Mulligan three children have been born,<br />
as follows : William, September 14,<br />
1906; Jeannette, April 26, 1910: and<br />
Kathleen, June 13, 1915. Like Mr. Mul-<br />
ligan, all the members <strong>of</strong> his family are<br />
Roman Catholics and are very active in<br />
the interests <strong>of</strong> their church in Thomp-<br />
sonville and Hartford.<br />
CLARK, Charles Oliver,<br />
Tobacco Grower.<br />
Charles Oliver Clark, who is one <strong>of</strong><br />
the largest individual growers <strong>of</strong> tobacco<br />
in the Hayden Station section <strong>of</strong> Windsor,<br />
<strong>Connecticut</strong>, is a native <strong>of</strong> that town,<br />
and comes <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> the oldest <strong>of</strong> Colonial<br />
Xew England families. He was born on<br />
Xovember 11, 1863, the son <strong>of</strong> Salmon<br />
and Laura Z. (Thrall) Clark, and his<br />
descent is from Joseph Clark, or Clarke,<br />
who was <strong>of</strong> Dorchester, Massachusetts,<br />
in 1630. The line from Joseph, progeni-<br />
tor in America, to Charles Oliver, <strong>of</strong> the<br />
seventh American generation, is through<br />
Nathaniel, born 1658; Nathaniel (2), born<br />
1705; Amos, born 1730: Salmon, baptized<br />
December 4, 1768; Salmon (2). born<br />
1824.<br />
:<br />
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY<br />
The Clark, or Clarke, family is one <strong>of</strong><br />
great antiquity in England, particularly<br />
the Suffolk branch, in which county Joseph<br />
Clarke, immigrant ancestor <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Clarkes <strong>of</strong> Medfield, Medway, and that<br />
vicinity <strong>of</strong> Massachusetts, was born.<br />
Regarding the British generations <strong>of</strong><br />
Clarkes, records indicate that they were<br />
<strong>of</strong> gentle blood, and mostly well circumstanced<br />
financially. An ancestor, Thomas<br />
Clarke, <strong>of</strong> Bury St. Edmunds, '"gentleman,"<br />
mentions in his will <strong>of</strong> 1506 "a<br />
Seynt Antony Crosse, a tau Crosse <strong>of</strong><br />
gold, weying iij.li.," which was borne in<br />
an armorial coat, and was assumed as<br />
an augmentation in consequence <strong>of</strong> hav-<br />
ing been worn by Xicholas Drury, his<br />
great maternal grandsire, in the expedition<br />
to Spain with John <strong>of</strong> Gaunt, Duke<br />
<strong>of</strong> Lancaster, in 1386.<br />
Joseph Clarke, who was brother <strong>of</strong><br />
Thomas and Bray Clarke, many enteries<br />
regarding both <strong>of</strong> whom are to be found<br />
in Colonial Xew England records, was<br />
born in 1597, in the County <strong>of</strong> Suffolk,<br />
England. He was among the first set-<br />
tlers <strong>of</strong> the Dorchester Company that<br />
embarked at Plymouth, England, on<br />
March 20, 1630, in the "Mary and John,"<br />
a vessel <strong>of</strong> four hundred tons, Captain<br />
Squeb, master. On May 30 <strong>of</strong> that year,<br />
the ''Mary and John," the first <strong>of</strong> "that<br />
distinguished fleet <strong>of</strong> eleven vessels,"<br />
arrived at Xantasket. In the Dorchester<br />
(Massachusetts) town records, under<br />
date Xovember 22, 1634, Joseph Clarke<br />
and twelve other persons are mentioned<br />
as having a "grant <strong>of</strong> six acres <strong>of</strong> land for<br />
their small & great lotts, at Xaponset,<br />
betwixt the Indian feild and the mill."<br />
After Joseph Clarke received the grant <strong>of</strong><br />
land in 1634 he appears to have returned<br />
to England, for his name is contained in<br />
a sailing list <strong>of</strong> those who, on October 24,<br />
1635, at "ye Port <strong>of</strong> London were aboard<br />
the 'Constance,' Clement Campion, Mr.,<br />
bound for Virginia, Jo. Clarke, aged 38