-Occupation: Shoe maker
Courtesy of Contributor: lazacann (48441824) :
"Leander Clark... was born in Dublin, this state, Oct. 16, 1804, and when but nine months old, his parents removed to Canada, making the journey with an ox team. Fifteen years later they returned to Dublin, and Mr. Clark was bound out during his minority to Hon. Aaron Appleton of Keene. At the age of twenty-one he went to the village of Saxon's River, Vt., to learn the machinists' trade, but the first day his left leg was caught in a belt and so badly injured that it was found necessary to amputate it above the knee. The surgeons made a poor job of it, however, and a second amputation near the hip was performed by old Dr. Twitchell of Keene. Both of these operations were performed many years before the use of anaesthetics were discovered, and the painful ordeal was borne by Mr. Clark with remarkable fortitude. His misfortune changed his plan of life, and by some means he succeeded in obtaining a good education, and became a successful teacher. At the time of the burning of the mill which occupied the site of the Phoenix factory, he was teaching school in Dist. No. 3, now known as the Wilson school. Subsequently he went to Dublin and learned the shoemakers' trade of Fitch Hayes, after which he removed to this town, and for many years engaged in the manufacture of shoes. At the time of the Boston fire he lost some fifteen or twenty cases of shoes, representing his previous winter's work, which he had shipped to the city, as was his usual custom, to be disposed of at the spring sales. Since that time he made but few shoes for the market, but confined his labors to custom work and general repairing. Mr. Clark was married Dec. 30, 1841, to Mary A. Jones of Dublin, by whom he had three children, one of whom, Eugene L., still survives, two having died in infancy. Mrs. Clark died Jan. 16, 1882. Mr. Clark was a son of the late Jonas Clark, was the fourth of a family of eleven children—five sisters and six brothers. The youngest sister, Clarissa Caroline, was a member of his family as nurse at the time of his death, which occurred in the house where he had resided for forty-six years.
The deceased was a prudent, temperate, industrious man, always a staunch democrat, a supporter of the Unitarian church, and a man highly respected for his sterling integrity."
--Published in the Peterborough Transcript, May 17, 1888.
Courtesy of Contributor: lazacann (48441824) :
"Leander Clark... was born in Dublin, this state, Oct. 16, 1804, and when but nine months old, his parents removed to Canada, making the journey with an ox team. Fifteen years later they returned to Dublin, and Mr. Clark was bound out during his minority to Hon. Aaron Appleton of Keene. At the age of twenty-one he went to the village of Saxon's River, Vt., to learn the machinists' trade, but the first day his left leg was caught in a belt and so badly injured that it was found necessary to amputate it above the knee. The surgeons made a poor job of it, however, and a second amputation near the hip was performed by old Dr. Twitchell of Keene. Both of these operations were performed many years before the use of anaesthetics were discovered, and the painful ordeal was borne by Mr. Clark with remarkable fortitude. His misfortune changed his plan of life, and by some means he succeeded in obtaining a good education, and became a successful teacher. At the time of the burning of the mill which occupied the site of the Phoenix factory, he was teaching school in Dist. No. 3, now known as the Wilson school. Subsequently he went to Dublin and learned the shoemakers' trade of Fitch Hayes, after which he removed to this town, and for many years engaged in the manufacture of shoes. At the time of the Boston fire he lost some fifteen or twenty cases of shoes, representing his previous winter's work, which he had shipped to the city, as was his usual custom, to be disposed of at the spring sales. Since that time he made but few shoes for the market, but confined his labors to custom work and general repairing. Mr. Clark was married Dec. 30, 1841, to Mary A. Jones of Dublin, by whom he had three children, one of whom, Eugene L., still survives, two having died in infancy. Mrs. Clark died Jan. 16, 1882. Mr. Clark was a son of the late Jonas Clark, was the fourth of a family of eleven children—five sisters and six brothers. The youngest sister, Clarissa Caroline, was a member of his family as nurse at the time of his death, which occurred in the house where he had resided for forty-six years.
The deceased was a prudent, temperate, industrious man, always a staunch democrat, a supporter of the Unitarian church, and a man highly respected for his sterling integrity."
--Published in the Peterborough Transcript, May 17, 1888.
-Occupation: Shoe maker
Courtesy of Contributor: lazacann (48441824) :
"Leander Clark... was born in Dublin, this state, Oct. 16, 1804, and when but nine months old, his parents removed to Canada, making the journey with an ox team. Fifteen years later they returned to Dublin, and Mr. Clark was bound out during his minority to Hon. Aaron Appleton of Keene. At the age of twenty-one he went to the village of Saxon's River, Vt., to learn the machinists' trade, but the first day his left leg was caught in a belt and so badly injured that it was found necessary to amputate it above the knee. The surgeons made a poor job of it, however, and a second amputation near the hip was performed by old Dr. Twitchell of Keene. Both of these operations were performed many years before the use of anaesthetics were discovered, and the painful ordeal was borne by Mr. Clark with remarkable fortitude. His misfortune changed his plan of life, and by some means he succeeded in obtaining a good education, and became a successful teacher. At the time of the burning of the mill which occupied the site of the Phoenix factory, he was teaching school in Dist. No. 3, now known as the Wilson school. Subsequently he went to Dublin and learned the shoemakers' trade of Fitch Hayes, after which he removed to this town, and for many years engaged in the manufacture of shoes. At the time of the Boston fire he lost some fifteen or twenty cases of shoes, representing his previous winter's work, which he had shipped to the city, as was his usual custom, to be disposed of at the spring sales. Since that time he made but few shoes for the market, but confined his labors to custom work and general repairing. Mr. Clark was married Dec. 30, 1841, to Mary A. Jones of Dublin, by whom he had three children, one of whom, Eugene L., still survives, two having died in infancy. Mrs. Clark died Jan. 16, 1882. Mr. Clark was a son of the late Jonas Clark, was the fourth of a family of eleven children—five sisters and six brothers. The youngest sister, Clarissa Caroline, was a member of his family as nurse at the time of his death, which occurred in the house where he had resided for forty-six years.
The deceased was a prudent, temperate, industrious man, always a staunch democrat, a supporter of the Unitarian church, and a man highly respected for his sterling integrity."
--Published in the Peterborough Transcript, May 17, 1888.
Courtesy of Contributor: lazacann (48441824) :
"Leander Clark... was born in Dublin, this state, Oct. 16, 1804, and when but nine months old, his parents removed to Canada, making the journey with an ox team. Fifteen years later they returned to Dublin, and Mr. Clark was bound out during his minority to Hon. Aaron Appleton of Keene. At the age of twenty-one he went to the village of Saxon's River, Vt., to learn the machinists' trade, but the first day his left leg was caught in a belt and so badly injured that it was found necessary to amputate it above the knee. The surgeons made a poor job of it, however, and a second amputation near the hip was performed by old Dr. Twitchell of Keene. Both of these operations were performed many years before the use of anaesthetics were discovered, and the painful ordeal was borne by Mr. Clark with remarkable fortitude. His misfortune changed his plan of life, and by some means he succeeded in obtaining a good education, and became a successful teacher. At the time of the burning of the mill which occupied the site of the Phoenix factory, he was teaching school in Dist. No. 3, now known as the Wilson school. Subsequently he went to Dublin and learned the shoemakers' trade of Fitch Hayes, after which he removed to this town, and for many years engaged in the manufacture of shoes. At the time of the Boston fire he lost some fifteen or twenty cases of shoes, representing his previous winter's work, which he had shipped to the city, as was his usual custom, to be disposed of at the spring sales. Since that time he made but few shoes for the market, but confined his labors to custom work and general repairing. Mr. Clark was married Dec. 30, 1841, to Mary A. Jones of Dublin, by whom he had three children, one of whom, Eugene L., still survives, two having died in infancy. Mrs. Clark died Jan. 16, 1882. Mr. Clark was a son of the late Jonas Clark, was the fourth of a family of eleven children—five sisters and six brothers. The youngest sister, Clarissa Caroline, was a member of his family as nurse at the time of his death, which occurred in the house where he had resided for forty-six years.
The deceased was a prudent, temperate, industrious man, always a staunch democrat, a supporter of the Unitarian church, and a man highly respected for his sterling integrity."
--Published in the Peterborough Transcript, May 17, 1888.
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