Notes for James Mason CLARKE

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Notes for James Mason CLARKE

Also possibly married to a Mary E. Cory 31 December 1857 in Providence.
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http://www.archive.org/stream/proceedingsofrho22rhod/proceedingsofrho22rhod_djvu.txt [11.2009]:
James Mason Clarke died in Providence, December 21,
1885, at the age of sixty-six years. He was the son of John
Hopkins and Elizabeth (Bo wen) Clarke, and was born in
Providence, December 27, 1819. His ancestors, both maternal
and paternal, have been conspicuous in the annals of the State,
and his father represented it in the Senate of the United States.
NECROLOGY. 81
He pursued his early classical studies at the Academy in Plain-
field, Conn., and graduated at Brown University in the class of
lrS38. He studied law in Connecticut under the guidance of
Andrew T. Judson, and subsequently in the office of Samuel Y.
Atwell of Providence, and was admitted to the bar of Rhode
Island in 1841. He very soon entered into partnership with
Richard W. Greene, at that time District Attorney of the
United States, and afterwards Chief Justice of the State. He
rose rapidly in his profession and attained a high reputation for
ability and skill as an advocate. In 184U he was appointed by
President Taylor District Attorney of the United States, and
held the office for four years to the close of the Presidential term.
Soon after leaving this office he was chosen Presiding Justice of
the Court of ^lagistrates of the City of Providence, and after
a brief term of service in 1854 he was made City Solicitor on
the creation of that office in the government of the city. In
tliis responsible position he continued to serve the city for the
period of nine years by the annual choice of the City Council.
Soon after the passage by Congress of the United States Bank-
rupt Law in 1857, he was appointed Register in Bankruptcy
under the provisions of this act, and held this office from June,
1867, to September, 1876, a period of more than nine years,
during which that act was receiving its judicial interpretations
and its practical applications to the vast variety of cases that
arose in the affiiirs of the connnunity. He won an lion(jral)le
distinction by the manner in which he discharged its difficult
duties. After the close of this period his health began to be
impaired, and he gradually withdrew from the active pursuits of
his [)rofession and devoted himself to literary and historical
reading, of whicli he was alwavs verv fond. He became a mem-
ber of the Rhode Island Historical Society in 1878, and took a
warm interest in the objects it is designed to promote.

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See Rhode Island > Providence > Providence Ward 3 > Page 134 for this family. At this time they had two servants, no children.
DOM from Ancestry...subject to proof.
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Listed with his father and step-mother in 1850 Providence census.

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