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ied a Silsbee, but no record of this mar-
riage can be discovered, but family tradi-
tion shows this to have been her family
name.
John Clark, son of John Clark, was
born December 16, 1804, as shown by the
record on his tombstone in Mount Auburn
Cemetery, Cambridge. He was
engaged in business in Boston, and made
his home in Cambridge. He married, November
8, 1831, in Waltham, Caroline
(Madison) Pickering, who was born December
15, 1809, in Waltham, third
daughter of Rev. George Pickering, of
Boston. According to his gravestone in
Waltham, he was born in 1769, in Mary-
land. The Waltham records show that
he died December 8, 1846, in that town,
of consumption, at the age of twenty-
seven years. He was probably descended
from the ancient Pickering family of
Salem, Massachusetts, whose descendants
are now scattered largely over the United
States. Rev. George Pickering married,
August 23, 1796, Mary Bemis, of Waltham,
born May 19, 1777, daughter of
Abraham and Abigail (Adams) Bemis.
Abigail (Adams) Bemis was descended
from George Adams, who came from Eng-
land and settled in Watertown as early
as 1645. The name Adams is equivalent
to Adam's son, and is a contraction of
that form. George Adams sold house and
lands in Watertown in 1664, and settled
about that time in Lexington, Massachusetts.
He was accompanied from England
by his wife Frances. Their son, George
Adams, born 1647, in Watertown, lived
at Cambridge Farms (now Lexington),
and married, January 20, 1684, in Watertown,
Martha Fiske, born December 15,
1666, in Watertown, daughter of John and
Sarah (Wyeth) Fiske. Their second son,
John Adams, born September 2, 1688, in
Lexington, was baptized in Watertown,
March 10, 1689, and lived in Lexington.
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He married, October 27, 1714, Mary
Flagg, of Watertown, who was probably
the Mary Flagg born February 2, 1683,
in that town, daughter of Gershom and
Hannah (Leffingwell) Flagg. Their second
son, John Adams, born February 22,
1717, in Lexington, lived in Lincoln, Mas-
sachusetts, with his wife Elizabeth.
Their second daughter, Abigail, born Oc-
tober 7, 1753, baptized November 8, 1761,
became the wife of Abraham Bemis, and
the mother of Mary Bemis, who married
Rev. George Pickering and was the
mother of Caroline Madison Pickering,
who became the wife of John Clark, Jr.,
of Cambridge.
Their son, Charles Hallett Clark, born
1836, as above noted, in Cambridge, was
educated in the public schools of that
city, and on leaving school went to New
York City, where he entered the employ
of Davis & Brooks, large merchants of
that city, having an extensive East In-
dian trade. Mr. Clark's elder brother,
Pickering Clark, born January 10, 1834,
in Cambridge, was associated with this
establishment, which led to the connection
of Charles H. Clark with it. The
brothers were associated in various enter-
prises, and about 1872 they became inter-
ested in tramways in India and established
the Bombay Tramway Company, of which
Charles H. Clark was elected secretary.
He continued in this capacity for many
years, until the interests of the Clark
brothers were sold to British capitalists.
Soon after this Charles H. Clark retired
from active business, and made his home
in Wethersfield, Connecticut, where his
death occurred September 27, 1905, in his
seventieth year. Mr. Clark was a man of
excellent business qualifications, a friend
of education and public improvements,
and was a member of the Congregational
church when he died. His body was buried
in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cam-