Never knew his father, Tilton Clark, who died when William was only about one year old.
Civil War soldier. Private, Company D, 13th Mass. Inf and Company F, 2nd District of Columbia Inf. Also detailed as clerk at headquarters of General Christopher Auger, Washington, DC, and in Quartermaster's Department.
William unknowingly gave up his bed at the William Petersen house, 453 Tenth Street, Washington, DC on the night of April 14, 1865. President Abraham Lincoln died in that bed at 7:22 AM the next morning. William kept President Lincoln's boots which were left in the room.
Although Clark signed his name with others, attesting to the accurary of Albert Berghaus' sketch of the "Death of Abraham Lincoln", he would not allow himself to be sketched or lend a personal photograph to be used.
Later in life, William was a bank clerk and real estate agent. He died of a heart attack in a Boston store.
Civil War soldier. Private, Company D, 13th Mass. Inf and Company F, 2nd District of Columbia Inf. Also detailed as clerk at headquarters of General Christopher Auger, Washington, DC, and in Quartermaster's Department.
William unknowingly gave up his bed at the William Petersen house, 453 Tenth Street, Washington, DC on the night of April 14, 1865. President Abraham Lincoln died in that bed at 7:22 AM the next morning. William kept President Lincoln's boots which were left in the room.
Although Clark signed his name with others, attesting to the accurary of Albert Berghaus' sketch of the "Death of Abraham Lincoln", he would not allow himself to be sketched or lend a personal photograph to be used.
Later in life, William was a bank clerk and real estate agent. He died of a heart attack in a Boston store.
Never knew his father, Tilton Clark, who died when William was only about one year old.
Civil War soldier. Private, Company D, 13th Mass. Inf and Company F, 2nd District of Columbia Inf. Also detailed as clerk at headquarters of General Christopher Auger, Washington, DC, and in Quartermaster's Department.
William unknowingly gave up his bed at the William Petersen house, 453 Tenth Street, Washington, DC on the night of April 14, 1865. President Abraham Lincoln died in that bed at 7:22 AM the next morning. William kept President Lincoln's boots which were left in the room.
Although Clark signed his name with others, attesting to the accurary of Albert Berghaus' sketch of the "Death of Abraham Lincoln", he would not allow himself to be sketched or lend a personal photograph to be used.
Later in life, William was a bank clerk and real estate agent. He died of a heart attack in a Boston store.
Civil War soldier. Private, Company D, 13th Mass. Inf and Company F, 2nd District of Columbia Inf. Also detailed as clerk at headquarters of General Christopher Auger, Washington, DC, and in Quartermaster's Department.
William unknowingly gave up his bed at the William Petersen house, 453 Tenth Street, Washington, DC on the night of April 14, 1865. President Abraham Lincoln died in that bed at 7:22 AM the next morning. William kept President Lincoln's boots which were left in the room.
Although Clark signed his name with others, attesting to the accurary of Albert Berghaus' sketch of the "Death of Abraham Lincoln", he would not allow himself to be sketched or lend a personal photograph to be used.
Later in life, William was a bank clerk and real estate agent. He died of a heart attack in a Boston store.
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