Spirit of the Times
Batavia, Genesee County, New York.
Saturday, January 23, 1864
DIED
In Cooperstown, Otsego Co., N. Y., on the 9th inst., Capt. Jerome Clark, father of Jerome A. Clark, Esq., of Batavia, aged 84 years.
The deceased has been long known as an active and valuable member of society. Sixty seven years ago, at the age of 17, he removed from Lebanon, Ct, where he was born in 1780, to this State. He was an early member of the Board of Trustees of Hartwick Seminary, and for many years acted as Treasurer of the same. After the decease of the late Governor Bouck, he held the office of President of the Board. His services in the outward concerns of the institution were unremitted and will long be remembered.
In the last war with Great Britain, he was Captain of a company, and volunteered his services.
It was only of late years that he made a public profession of faith in the Redeemer, and united with the Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown, though there is no doubt that he had long been impressed with the necessity and importance of the duty.
He has been called to his rest in a good old age, leaving to survivors an example of diligence and economy, and of a kind and friendly disposition, manifested by charity to the poor.
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Spirit of the Times
Batavia, Genesee County, New York.
Saturday, January 23, 1864
DIED
In Cooperstown, Otsego Co., N. Y., on the 9th inst., Capt. Jerome Clark, father of Jerome A. Clark, Esq., of Batavia, aged 84 years.
The deceased has been long known as an active and valuable member of society. Sixty seven years ago, at the age of 17, he removed from Lebanon, Ct, where he was born in 1780, to this State. He was an early member of the Board of Trustees of Hartwick Seminary, and for many years acted as Treasurer of the same. After the decease of the late Governor Bouck, he held the office of President of the Board. His services in the outward concerns of the institution were unremitted and will long be remembered.
In the last war with Great Britain, he was Captain of a company, and volunteered his services.
It was only of late years that he made a public profession of faith in the Redeemer, and united with the Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown, though there is no doubt that he had long been impressed with the necessity and importance of the duty.
He has been called to his rest in a good old age, leaving to survivors an example of diligence and economy, and of a kind and friendly disposition, manifested by charity to the poor.
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