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