Within a few past years Mr. Clarke has learned by experience that there is a limit to the amount of care and business the strongest man can undertake, especially when everything is done with the intensity characteristic of his nature. In 1872, being obliged by the advice of physicians to abstain from all business for several months, he visited Great Britain, France, and Germany, to regain the health too close attention to business had temporarily destroyed. He has since applied the wisdom thus dearly bought by limiting the time to be devoted to business, rarely allowing himself to overstep the bounds.
Generous to a fault, Mr. Clarke has contributed liberally to all measures calculated to advance the interests of his town and city, and hardly a public work in Manchester now exists that does not owe something to his influence or pecuniary aid. He has always adhered to the Christian faith in which he was reared, and has been a liberal supporter of the Franklin-street Congregational church of the city, a constant attendant upon its worship, and has been elected to various offices in that society.
Mr. Clarke married, July 29, 1852, Susan Greeley Moulton, of Gilmanton. They have two sons,—Arthur Eastman, born May 13, 1854, and William Cogswell, born March 17, 1856. Both are graduates of the Scientific Department of Dartmouth College, and both are now employed on the Mirror.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] A genealogy of the Weston families in America, prepared under the direction and patronage of Gov. Weston, is nearly ready for publication.
[2] Deceased.
[3] For full account of John Cogswell, whom tradition calls "a prosperous London merchant," see "Cogswells in America," soon to be published.
[4] History of Hingham, Mass., by Solomon Lincoln, Jr. Farmer & Brown, 1827.
[5] Arthur Gilman, A. M. Joel Munsell, Albany, 1869.
[6] The retention of the state-house.