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

HENRY WHITE, MERVIN. 59
own is closely allied, and whose memory
will be cherished
while any of the present members of that society remain.
" But to measure the full merits of the deceased one needed
to cross the threshold of his old home. Mr. Clark had no
cliildren, yet himself and wife— the latter having preceded
him, and by a sudden death, too, a few years since—had upon
their hearts the children of others, and their roof was never
too narrow to shelter those dear to them. It was in deeds of
beautiful charity that the memory of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Clark blossoms so luxuriantly in the dust. They never wearied
in giving, and while it is sad to think that a man always so
active, always so cheerful, always so just and liberal, should
not of the fortune he once possessed leave large bequests to
those he adopted, still he does leave a legacy to friends that
is above price and that shall also prove to him a treasure laid
up in heaven."
35.
Mcrvlii' {Ornan,^ Mervin,* John,^ Matthew^^ John''), bap-
tized and probably born Jan., 1812; m. July 1, 1839, in
Cleveland, Ohio, Caroline Guptil, born May 22, 1822, in
Cleveland, and died April 4, 1847, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
daughter of John H. and Lucy (White) Guptil. He married,
second, Nov. 6, 1849, Mary Jane Tharp, born Jan. 10, 1828,
daughter of Amariah and Elizabeth (Hines) Tharp. His
widow married, second, April 16, 1856, Jeduthan Hop-
kins, son of Matthew and Lucy Hopkins of Rensselaer,
Lidiana. In early life Mr. Clark was a clerk in the
well-known dry goods store of Julius Catlin in Hartford,
Conn., and afterwards in that of A. M. Collins in the same
city. Subsequently he entered into a partnership
with his
brother Henry W. Clark in the dry goods business on Supe-
rior street, in Cleveland, Ohio. He afterwards, in the fall of