Notes for Frederick Gorham CLARK

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Notes for Frederick Gorham CLARK

Clark & Allied Family Ancestors, Field (1971) N.J.St.Lib.
The Rev Dr Frederick G Clark was born in Waterbury December 13 1819 He entered Williams college in 1836 but obliged to leave it on account of the failure of his health two years spent in the study of law he went abroad and on return entered the
University of the City of New York He graduated from there in 1842 and from Union Theological seminary in 1845 He was ordained the same year pastor of the Second Congregational church in Greenwich but after a brief stay in that parish accepted a call
to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church in Astoria Long Island It was during his six years residence at Astoria that the writer of this notice then a small boy was one of his parishioners and learned for the first time what it was to have a pastor
He remembers with great interest the youthful yet dignified figure and the benignant face of the man who had come to be the minister of a new and struggling parish and can still recall some of the serious lessons of his Saturday afternoon Bible class
Mr Clark's ministry in Astoria continued for six years which in 1852 he accepted a call to the Presbyterian church in West Twenty third street New York Here he remained fifteen years and then returned for a brief time to his first parish at Greenwich
but was compelled by ill health to relinquish it His last pastorate 1878 to 1886 was in connection with the Second street Presbyterian church in Troy NY and continued for eight years but ill health again compelled him to resign and he retired to
Fernhurst his country home at Bennington On August 16 1847 Mr Clark married Sarah daughter Robert M Blackwell of Astoria They had six daughters and a son who died in 1874 aged thirteen years Dr Clark died in Brooklyn NY November 18 1886 Mrs Clark
survived him until June 5 1894 The unmarried daughters reside at Fernhurst in Bennington Among Dr Clark's published writings are Self Culture a Lecture to Young Men The Church and Civil Government and several memoirs After his death a handsome volume
of 130 pages was published by his children entitled The Loom of Life and Other Brief Papers Some of the articles included in it such as Christians in Shadow and Is He Lonely There have gone far and wide to comfort parents in sorrow [The town and city
of Waterbury, Connecticut, Volume 2 By Sarah Johnson Prichard, Anna Lydia Ward. pp. 537-38.]
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