Clark, John, a Baptist minister, was bom near Inverness, Scotland, Nov. 29th, 1758. Having firom his early boyhood a strong propensity for a seaCsring life, he was for about one year on board of a privateer, afterwards sailed as second mate to the West Indies, and arriving at Barbadoes, was impressed into the British navy. Here he deserted, and the next vesKi on which he engaged being captured by the Spaniards, he was for nineteen months a prisoner of war at Ha- vana. Soon after his exchange he was a second tinie impressed, and, deserting again, reached Ghaxlestoii, S. C. In 1785 he taught school in the back set^omeite of Carolina. Revisifipg England, he became aoquaiated with Mr. Wesley, and after his return to this ooontiy in 1789 he became an itinerant preacher in GeoigiB. Finally he became a Baptist, and a member of the so- called "Bcqftised Church of Christy" or *' Friends of Hu- manitif" on account of their opposition to slavery. Re- maining a few months in the ** Florida Parishes,"* Lou- isiana, where he preached almost daily and with great acceptance, he travelled to Illinois on foot, and in 1811 revisited Louisiana, preaching wherever he had an opportunity, and travelling great distances, always on foot. He died in St. Louis Co., Mo., Oct. 11th, 1B8S.— Sprague, Annals, vi, 490..
Clark, John, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was bom m Washington Coun^, N. Y., July SO, 1797 ; wm
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converted in 1817, and in 1820 entered the New Tork Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Chnrch as an itinerant. Having labored within its bounds for six- teen jean, he was in 1836 transferred to the Illinois Conference, and in 1841 to Texas. In 1844 he was a delegate to the General Conference of that year, and at its close was at his own request transferred to the Troy Conference. He was again transferred, in 1852, to Uie Rock River Conference, and stationed in Chi- cago, where he died of cholera, July 11, 1853. In all parts of the country he was eminently well received, and wherever he was stationed he left behind him the repntadon of an able and earnest Christian minister. His frontier labors, full of toil and peril, which he met witb abounding courage and energy, are amply de- scribed in Hall's lAft o/Bev, John Clark (N. Y. 8vo). See also MimUes of Conferences, v, 485 ; Sprague, An- naUj vii, 626 ; Methodist Quarter^, Jan. 1857, p. 148.
Clark, John Alonso, D.D., a Protestant Epis- copal minister, was bom 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 Palmyra, N. T. In 1829 he became assistant of Christ Church, New Tork City. In 1832 he accepted the rectorship of Grace Chnrch, Providence, R. I., and in 1885 be- came rector of St. Andrew*s, Philadelphia, where he labored for ten years with great acceptance and nse- f olneaa. His health failing, he made a visit to Europe, and on his return published GUmpses of the Old World (2 wols. 12mo, 1838). In 1843 he was compelled by the decline of his health to resign his rectorship, and on the 27th of November of that year he died. His publications, besides the TVavels named above, are the following : Christian Experience as disipUnyed in the Life and Writings of St, Paul; The Pastor's Testimony (1836) ; The Young Disciple^ or a Memoir ofAnzonetta R. Peters (12mo, 1836); Gathered Fragments (12mo, 183e) ; A Walk about Zitm (12mo, 1836); Gleantngs by the Wag (12mo, 1842) ; a posthumous volume of ser- mons, entitled Awake, thou Sleeper (12mo). — Sprague, Amuils, V, 674.
C^ark, Peter, a Congregational minister, was a native of Watertown, Mass., bom 1693, graduated at Harvard 1712, and was ordained pastor in Salem vil- lage (now Danvers) June 3, 1717. He published sev- eral controversial pamphlets concerning ^* Original Sin" in opposition to the Bev. Samuel Webster and Dr. Chauncy (1757-1760) ; Scripture Grounds of the Baptism of Christian Infants asserted and defended in a Letter, etc, (1735) ; also several occasional sermons. He died in June, 1768. — Sprague, Annals^ i, 291.
Clark, Samnel, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was bom about 1800, in Frederick County, Va., of pi- ous parents ; entered the Baltimore Conference in 1821, located in 1834 ; entered the Ohio Conference in 1836, located in 1841, and emigrated to Iowa (then a Terri- tory) ; entered the Iowa Conference in 1844,, and, af- ter various relations to this conference, died at his post, in Van Bnren County, Iowa, Feb. 9, 1857. " This ven- erable man of God .... had gone up and down for nearly forty years, preaching * Christ and the resur- rection' to thousands, from the Atlantic to the western borders of civilisation." He was formidable in de- bate, and ranked high as a minister and public speak- er.—A/imiteff of Coi^erences, 1859, p. 243.
Claike, Adam, LL.D., a Wesleyan Methodist minister, distingtkished as a divine, an antiquarian, and an Oriental scholar, was bora at Moybeg, London- derry Co., Ireland, in 1760 or 1762 (his own mother could not fix the date). His fkther, who was a class- ical teacher, was a member of the Church of England, bat his mother, who was of Scottish origin, was a Pres- byterian. Adam, when a boy, was remarkaUe for physical vigor, but seemed rather stupid than other-