Clark, Lemen Taylor a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born about 1845. He was brought up in Mercer County, O.; was converted at the age of thirteen; graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan. University in 1871; became superintendent of the Defiance public schools:; and in 1873 entered the Central Ohio Conference, wherein he labored with much acceptance … Continue reading “Clark, Lemen Taylor”
Clark, Laban, D.D.
Clark, Laban, D.D. a pioneer Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Haverhill,. N.H., July 19 1778, of strict Congregational parents, who gave him a careful Calvinistic education. He spent his childhood and youth at Bradford Vt., where his associations with a Wesleyan family won him to Methodism; and on the arrival of a Methodist itinerant … Continue reading “Clark, Laban, D.D.”
Clark, Justus Mckinstry
Clark, Justus Mckinstry a Presbyterian minister, was born on the Isle La Motte, in Lake Champlain, Vt., Dec. 27, 1811. In 1820 he removed with his parents to Franklin County, N. Y. He was converted when seventeen years of age, and soon after entered Vermont University, remaining two years, and graduated from Union College, N. … Continue reading “Clark, Justus Mckinstry”
Clark, Joseph Sylvester, D.D.
Clark, Joseph Sylvester, D.D. an eminent Congregational minister, was born of. Puritan ancestry at Manomet Ponds, South Plymouth, Mass., Dec. 19, 1800. A part of his youth was spent in teaching. He entered the academy at Amherst in 1822; in 1827 graduated from the college; in 1831 from Andover Theological Seminary, and was ordained successor … Continue reading “Clark, Joseph Sylvester, D.D.”
Clark, Joseph (1), D.D.
Clark, Joseph (1), D.D. a Presbyterian minister,: was born near: Elizabeth, N. J., Oct. 21,1751. In his twentieth year he began a course of study, graduated from Princeton College, and was licensed to preach by the New Brunswick Presbytery: April 23, 1783. In 1788 he accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church at Allentown, where … Continue reading “Clark, Joseph (1), D.D.”
Clark, Joseph (2)
Clark, Joseph (2) a Presbyterian minister, was born near Carlisle, Pa., ‘Oct. 11. 1825. He was educated at the New Bloomfield Academy, graduated from Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pa., in 1848, and. studied in the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny. He was licensed by the Carlisle Presbytery in June, 1852, and became pastor at Chambersburg, where … Continue reading “Clark, Joseph (2)”
Clark, John W.
Clark, John W. a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Harford Counts, Md., Sept. 21, 1803. He removed, while quite young, with his parents to Hamilton County, 0.; experienced religion when a boy; received license to exhort at the age of eighteen; in 1824 to preach, and in 1825 entered the Ohio Conference, where he … Continue reading “Clark, John W.”
Clark, John Flavel
Clark, John Flavel a Congregational minister, was: born in New Jersey.; He graduated from Princeton College in 1807, spent somewhat more than a year in Andover Theological Seminary, and was. tutor in his alma mater from 1811 to 18:14. He was ordained in 1815; was pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Flemington, N. J., from 1815 … Continue reading “Clark, John Flavel”
Clark, John Alonzo D.D.
Clark, John Alonzo D.D. a Protestant Episcopal minister, was born in Pittsfield, Mass., May 6, 1801, and graduated in Union College, July, 1823. He studied in the General Theological Seminary, New York, and was ordained deacon April 12,1826, when he took charge of a missionary station at Palmnyra, N. Y. In 1829 he became assistant … Continue reading “Clark, John Alonzo D.D.”
Clark, John (5), A.M.
Clark, John (5), A.M. a Scotch clergyman of Glasgow, was licensed to preach in 1819; was elected minister. at New Street Chapel, Edinburgh, in’ 1823, and ordained; promoted to the Second Charge, Canongate, in 1833; transferred to the Old Church in 1844, and died Sept. 1, 1859, aged seventy years.- See Fasti Eccles. Scoticance, i, … Continue reading “Clark, John (5), A.M.”