Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-04

house. Just what happened can never be |
known, but from the fact that the body |
Law some 10 or 20 feet down the hill from |
the trough it would seem that the horse |
may have suddenly started and that Mr.. |
Clark, in springiGg to catch the animal, |
may have fallen or been thrown down, the |
shock producing the apoplectic stroke from |
which he died instantly. The wagon was |
heavily loaded and the mark of the wheel |
was found upon his teeth. The drinking |
cup, which was kept at the trough, and |
which Mr.. Clark presumably had in his |
hand was thrown some little distance be-
yond the body. Mr.. Clark was apparent |
ly in his usual health when he left |
home in the forenoon to drive to the
farm, though he met with an accident in
being jerked or thrown from his wagon
when stopping at the house of f. A. Wells
on High street. He carried his dinner
with him and the main object of his trip
was to close the house for the winter
Mr.. Clark was born in Westminster
West in June, 1885. He was one of the
five children of Mark Clark, a farmer and
an active man of his day. The ancestry
of the family dates back to the Pilgrim
Fathers of Plymouth in the person of
Thomas Clark, the reputed mate of the
Mayfower, who lived to be the patriarch
of the Plymouth colony, dying at the age
of almost 100 years. Barnabas Clark,
who founded the Westminster branch of
the family, was the fourth in descent from
| Thomas Clark and b. A. Clark was the
| fourth in descent from him. Mark Clark
| died when his children were young, and
! soon after the mother bought the house in
| Westminster West, now well known as the
parsonage, which was her home until her
removal to Brattleboro II or II years later.
When lad of - B. A. Clark came to
| Brattleboro to enter the drug and hard
ware store of Williston & Tyler in the
Wiliston stone building. He remained
with this firm as a faithful clerk for II
years, leaving that position in 1862 to en-
gage in the drug business with Henry G.
Willard, now of Greenfield, Mass, under
the firm name of Clark IL Willard. The
firm was first in the Blake building, where
the Vermont national bank now stands,
and for the last two years in the store now
occupied by H. A. Chaplin d Co. The
partnership was discontinued after IL
years, Mr.. Clark then buying the hardware
and drug business of Joseph Clark. Mr..
Clark sold out the drug department and
devoted his whole time to the hardware
business, then located on the present site
of A. V. CoX's store. The business was
moved to the Tyler building near the
bridge when that structure was completed,
and about Is years ago Mr.. Clark moved
from there to Crosby block, where he con-
tinued in business until April, 1898, when
he sold to Mellen & Proctor. Mr.. Clark
has had an interest in numbering opera
tions since then, and about two years ago
bought the Luther Adams farm in Halifax,
but has not engaged actively in business.
Mr.. Clark was married in 1859 to Helen
C. Bullock, daughter of the late William
Bullock of BrattlebOro. Mrs. Clark sur
wives him, with their son, DR.. William
Bullock Clark, who graduated from Am
herst college in 1854, and from the Royal
university of Munich, Germany, in 1887,
afterward studying in Paris, Berlin and
London, before receiving his appointment
to Johns Hopkins university at Baltimore,
Md, where he is now professor in charge
of the department of geology.
Mr.. Clark never sought or desired pub
lie office, but it was only natural that one
so generally trusted as he should be hon.
ored in this direction, and he was chosen
at different times to the offices of select
man, bailiff, town grand juror and over.
seer of the poor Mr.. Clark joined the
Centre Congregational church in May
1854, and had ever since been one of it!
regular attendants and supporters. He
was made deacon of the church Jan.
1882, and held that honorable office at his
death. He had also served as trustee Of
the Centre Congregational society for sew
eral years.
Mr.. Clark was business man of honol
and uprightness, and there are few men o
whom it has been so true that their Gus.
toners were also their personal friends
Out of the kindness and sincerity of I
friendly heart he felt genuine interest il
men and women, and this interest was ex
pressed so naturally and warmly that it es
tablished a feeling of real comradeshil
with an acquaintace which covered tn
whole of southeastern Vermont. The me-