George Faber Clark (1817 - 1899)

Born 17 Feb 1817 in Shipton Township, Richmond, Quebec, Canada

Ancestors

Died 31 Jul 1899 at age 82 in West Acton, Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

Born in Dublin, N. H., February 24, 1817. At the age of fourteen was apprenticed for seven years to a shoemaker. When nineteen bought the rest of his time and began educating himself for the ministry. Graduated from Harvard School of Theology, 1846. Ordained in 1847. Married in same year to Harriet Emery. Installed pastor of Congregational Unitarian Church, Norton, August 11, 1852, and served nine years. He was Town Clerk and Treasurer three years. Published history of the town in 1859. Afterwards preached in Castine, Me., Stowe and Mendon, Mass. He died at his home in West Acton, July 31, 1899.^[1]

Obituary

Published in the Concord Enterprise, August 3, 1899:

Rev. George F. Clark, a retired Unitarian clergyman, who for several years has made his home here, was taken suddenly and seriously ill last week. His case requiring surgical treatment, it was thought best by the attending physicians, Drs. Tasker and Guy Mead, to remove him to a hospital in Boston whither he was taken Sunday morning. His extreme age, 82 years, coupled with bodily weakness, made all efforts unavailing and he passed away about 5 o'clock Monday afternoon. Mr. Clark has been largely identified with the temperance cause for many years, and has enjoyed membership in the order of Good Templars where he has held high office. He has also written one or two books on the subject. He has had fairly good health until this fatal illness, and less than two weeks ago with his wife, he attended the wedding of a niece in Fitchburg. Funeral services were held at his home Wednesday afternoon and were in charge of the I. O. G. T. The interment was in Stow.

Sources

1. ↑ "Norton Bicentennial Souvenir Programme". 1911. p. 13

• Austin, Benjamin Fish. "The prohibition leaders of America". St. Thomas, Ont.?: s.n., 1895. p. 64
• "General catalogue of the Divinity school of Harvard university". Harvard University, 1898. p. 44
• Locke, John G. "Book of the Lockes : A genealogical and historical record of the descendants of William Locke, of Woburn". Boston : J. Munroe and co., 1853. p. 144
• The Clark family : some facts relative to Arthur Clark and his descendants, principally collected previous to the year 1858
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHF9-DRJ : 19 February 2021), George F Clark, Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district ED 816, sheet 366A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,563.