"Father Clark," or The Pioneer Preacher

Cover created by Transcriber from the original Title Page, and placed in the Public Domain.
Painted by Tho. Cole.
Engraved by Geo. W. Hatch.
SKETCHES AND INCIDENTS OF REV. JOHN CLARK,
BY AN OLD PIONEER.
NEW YORK: SHELDON, LAMPORT & BLAKEMAN, No. 115 NASSAU STREET. 1855.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by SHELDON, LAMPORT & BLAKEMAN, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
JOHN J. REED, Stereotyper and Printer , 16 Spruce street.

The incidents, manners and customs of frontier life in the country once called the “Far West,”—now the valley of the Mississippi, are interesting to all classes. The religious events and labors of good men in “works of faith and labors of love” among the early pioneers of this valley, cannot fail to attract the attention of young persons in the family circle, and children in Sabbath schools.
The writer was intimately acquainted with this venerable man, who, by all classes, was familiarly called “Father Clark,” and induced him to commence sketches for his own biography. His tremulous hand and enfeebled powers failed him soon after he had gotten to the period of his conversion, while a teacher in the back settlements, and he was unable to finish the work.
By correspondence and personal interviews with many who knew Father Clark, and from his verbal narratives in our interviews for many years, the writer has been enabled to give a truthful sketch of the most important incidents of his life.