A record of the descendants of John Clark, of Farmington, Conn ...

58 CLARK GENEALOGY.
The above dates are from American Biographical Notes, hy
F. B. Rough, 155 and 362, and a letter of Mrs. M. H. Gan-
bon (33, i.).
34.
Henry White" (Ornan,^ Mervin,'' John,^ Mattheiv,^ John'^,
b. Feb. 28, 1807 ; m. Oct. 21, 1832, Emily Rowena Stanley,
born Sept. 11, 1810, and died March 10, 1869, in Dubuque,
Iowa, daughter of Cyrus and Abigail (Lee) Stanley. He
died in Cleveland, Ohio, Sept, 6, 1872. The following obitu-
ary notice was published in a Cleveland newspaper soon after
his death :
" We have published the fact of the prostration on
Wednesday last of Mr. Henry W. Clark by paralysis.
That
gentleman lingered in an unconscious state until Friday after-
noon, when he died. His age was sixty-eight, the place of
his nativity New Britain, Conn., and he has been a resident
of Cleveland since about 1833. Latterly Mr. Clark has spent
the most of his time at Dubuque, but up to a few years past he
was among the most active, most liberal, and most valuable
of Cleveland's citizens. Mr. Clark connnenced business here
in the dry goods line under the firm name of H. W. and M.
Clark, having a small store on Superior street near where the
Johnson house now stands. Subsequently he became member
of the firms of Clark and Raymond and Clark and Morgan,
withdrawing from merchandise some fifteen years since, when
he became interested largely and intimalely in the Cleveland
and Pittsburg Railroad project.
" The deceased was one of the original members of tlie
Second Presbyterian Church, and was one of the few who
brought to completion the edifice on Superior
street still
occupied by that society, and always was a generous, laborious,
and constant friend of that church, with whose name his