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Note: Tuttle, printed & published by Tuttle & Co., Rutland, VT, 1883:
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"John Alonzo Clark, b. May 6, 1801, Pittsfield, Mass; youngest of 11 children; inherited from his mother a delicate constitution; prepared under his two elder brothers and entered Union College; graduated 1823; admitted to Deacon's orders by Bishop Hobart in All Saints" Church, N.Y., 1826; took charge of Miss. Sta., Palmyra, N.Y., and at Lyons and Sodua; labored for 3 years there; asst. rector of Christ Church, N.Y. city, Rev. Dr. Lyall, recotr; in 1832 became rector of Grace Church, Providence, R. I., then a feeble parish, but under his energetic ministry grew until it holds a place second to none in the diocese; in 1835 he was called to the rectorship of St. Andrew's in Philadelphia, to succeed the Rev. Dr. Bedell, but his constitution had been so much undermined by his severe labors that his remaining strength was not sufficient for his restless energy and ceaseless devotion, and after two years he was compelled to take a voyage to Europe; absent nine months; on his return he published Glimpses of Old World, in two volumes; republished in London with Biog., by Rev. Dr. Tyng, 1847; in 1848 he was compelled finally to resign his rectorship; he died Nov. 27, 1843; D. D. Kenyon College 1840; besides the travels he published: A Christian Experience, As Displayed in Life and Writings of St. Paul; The Pastor's Testimon, 1835; The Young Disciple, or, a Memoir of Anzonetta R. Peters; Gathered Fragments, 12 mo., 1836; A Walk About Zion; Gleanings by the Way, 12 mo., 1842, and a volume of sermons published after his death, Awake Thou Sleeper. Rev. Dr. Francis Peck of Brooklyn, says: "Few men in our communion or in any other have arisen, done their work and passed away at the early age at which Dr. Clark was called to his reward, who deserve better to have their names embalmed in the grateful and affectionate remembrance of the church." Rev. Dr. Stephens of Philadelphia, says: "His pulpit and parochial labors were enough to tax the full p owers of an ordinary mind, but to these he added the toils of authorship and editorship, and sustained himself in each with high honor. Many of his works will be perpetuated through distant generations; by these he became widely known throughout the church, and through them, he being dead, yet speaketh."--Sprague's Annals. He m. Oct. 1826, Sarah Buell of Fairfield, Herkimor Co., N.Y., and had 9 children, of whom 6 died before him."
Note: The Descendants of William & Elizabeth Tuttle, by George Frederick
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