Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-01-23
STATE RECEIVES
CLARKE PORTRAIT
Tributes Paid Civil War Hero
and Editor at Joint Assem-
bly, of Legislature.

n Joint assembly of the two houses ol
the Legislature and a large number oi
visitors and was formally presented u"
the State with interesting and appropriate
exercises.
Senator McCuen, who was ono OF t"c
committee of arrangements, had peeh
designated to call the joint Assembly 10
order. and after doing so presented JonH
T. Mcclellan, the representative IL VI"
Plymouth, as chairman of the eNeh'nB'
Mr. Mcclellan spoke feeHnslN OIL MS
acouaintance with Colonel clarke ana
introduced Marvelle G. Weber OF Rut-
land, who presented the portrait
"Co,onel Clarke" he said, was proud
Of Vermont His early attachment to his
native state always remained 1t was his
hone to spend his last days here but fate
ordained otherwise I speak really for
tho donors Julia and Ellen Pierce, Of
Rochester whose generosity is commend
able. one OF them saw the picture in a
gallery in Boston, sought out its owner
and learned It was from the brush of
famous artist They secured it and 1t is
bere alvsys to remain. Colonel Clarke
WIS a patriot who was always ready to
sacrifice his time and energy. He was a
1oval Ver1nonter and 1t is most fitting his
,,ortrait should remain here Your EX-
rellency, I have the honor to present this
beautiful picture
Scott Clifton Carbee, the artist un-
ys1led the picture with a few remarks
Governor Fletcher accepted the portrait,
saving. 1T was my privilege to know
Colonel Clarke to respect and admire
him. and. gentlemen, on behalf of the
state of Vermont, / accept this portrait
lali u
ented this magnificent gift, and in that
latter sentiment I believe verse the
feeling Of the entire people of the entire
State of Vermont "
Gen. Charles h Darling of Boston was
then presented and spoke as follows;
GENERAL DARING'S ADDRESS.
In one Of the oldest Of Massachusetts
towns. the town Of Rowey whose rugged
1lplands now overlook the sere brown
marshes and the wintry sea stands the
quaint house built on tho land conveyed
TO Richard Clarke, one of its first settlers
more than two hundred and nifty years
ago. This lot still remains In the posses
sion of his descendants, no less than nine
generations OF whom have made the
house their home. Stated in terms of Yer
mont's history this grant was made but
thirty four years after Champaign dis
covered the lake which bears his name,
while it antedated by twenty years the
building of Fort Anne by the French on
Isle La Motto, and by more than seventy
five years the first English settlement
within the borders of this State.
1t Is well sometimes to recall the begin
,ings of our New England history, and
way they more wildly presented
han when linked with the story of the
migrations of the descendants of thai
earlier settlement along the shores OF
Massachusetts bay, first throughout New
England, then to the middle and the fal
West; often In the face of dangers hard
ships and privations, the tide Of emigra-
ton went steadily on, until hundreds oil
thousands of families and millions of PEG
pie living in every part OF this land hay
ties Of kinship to the early settlers ir
Salem. Newbury. Ipswich, and other OF
these old Essex towns of the Massa-
chusetts bay colony.
The descendants of Richard Clarke
farmer and weaver. Of Rowley are
numerous and widely scattered but
with the advent of his Sreat-great-
grandson, Timothy Clarke, as one of
the first settlers OF Grafton. Vt. to
which he came in 17GS from Connect
cut, this brancl of the family became
identified with the history of this
state in the service OF which as a
soldier at Bunker Hill, on expeditions
to Ticonderoga ana Bennington, and
in the alarm of October II, 1880, grow
ing out Of the burning OF Royalton by
the Indians. he set a worthy example,
ALBERT BORN IN GRANVILLE.
Albert Clarke. born In Granville on
October 10, 1870, was the great grand
son of this pioneer and revolutionary
soldier. and was descended on his
mothers side from John Woodbury. of
Salem, who was sent By Governor En-
dicott on a message to England; and
two, at least, of her ancestors served
in the Worcester county regiment in
the War for Independence, one with
the rank OF captain.
Passing his boyhood on farm in
Rochester, he was graduated in 1885
from Barre Academy. then and there
pfter, for thirty years, under the prin'
ripalship Of Jacob s. Spaulding, OF
blessed memory to many of us.
As young lawyer In Montpelier
the call came TO him as to so many
thousands of others to take up arm,
Tor his country You know with wha
fidelity and gallantry that duty wa!
performed
Proud indeed, Is the record Of Vernon
in that great war. Her population in 1856
was 3l5'M men, women and children
with 6O7l9 men subject to military duty
She sent into the armies of the uniol
35'24o men, of whom more than 5,0O0 wer
killed In action or died in the field o
wounds and disease; but the sacrifice, tn
heroism, the patriotism of those times
no mere figures can express, nor ca
tongue or pen ever give them their fu
need of praise.
Enisting here in Company | of tn
18th Vermont, one of the five regiment
raised In the fall of 1867, in response t
the call for 300 volunteers. he becam
successfully sergeant and orderly SCI
gcant of his company and later wa
promoted in the field to-hrst leutenar
of Company G in the same regiment Tn
service of these troops was brief, a
measured in years; but their value
the nation WAS inestimabe for to ther
and him came that great opportunit
which the chance of war sometime
bestows, STANDARDS Vermont BriFad
best known now and ever by the nam
OF its intrepid and gallant commando
had been for weary months on interio
lines in Virginia, with that winter cam
at Wolf Run Shoals, and even the con
ing of spring, with its momentous bait
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