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father was a farmer, one of the first settlers of that village. Eli- 

 phalet was educated at Farmington Academy and graduated at the 

 Medical School, Bowdoin College, in 1824. He then studied 

 with Dr. Thomas Little, a verj- eminent surgeon at New Gloucester, 

 and also with Dr. J. L. Blake at Phillips. He practiced in "VVilton 

 successfully for five 3-ears, and removed to Portland in 1830. About 

 1845 he became interested in homoeopathy and became a practitioner 

 of that school, the pioneer of Maine. To his profession he was 

 devoted, and, although often urged to accept political office, es- 

 pecially to become a candidate for mayor of the city, he positively 

 declined. He accumulated a large property in his profession, and, 

 a few years ago, took up his residence at Pleasant street. Wood- 

 ford's. 



Dr. Clark early became identified with Methodism, and the denom- 

 ination in this State owes a great deal to his encouragement and 

 su[)port. He became a member at eighteen years of age, and was 

 a leader later in life. He was the oldest trustee of the Maine Wes- 

 leyan Seminary- and Female College, and not only gave it liberal 

 donations during his life, but has remembered it in his will. All 

 three of the Portland Methodist churches have been assisted freely 

 b}' him, and he was, while in Portland, a member of the Chestnut 

 Street society. He also to a great extent contributed to the erection 

 of the new Methodist church at Woodford's. 



Dr. Clark was no ordinary man ; he was a born leader and in- 

 herited the stern and noble qualities of a heroic Puritan ancestry. 

 After removing to Portland, he almost immediately built up for him- 

 self a large and lucrative practice both as a surgeon and physician, 

 which he held during his long life, until the infirmities of age and 

 disease obliged him to retire. 



In all his social relations Dr. Clark was a model Christian gentle- 

 man. Gentle, kind and sympathetic, he drew around him a world 

 of friends — commanding the profound respect of all with whom he 

 associated. His home and family ciix-Ie was a model of domestic 

 happiness, nearer a type of heaven than earth. Dr. Clark's last 

 sickness was long and painful, but through all his sufferings his re- 

 ligion triumphed. As he approached his end on earth, with iiis mind 

 perfectly clear and rational, many of his dying words uttered to his 

 friends had the clear ring of the heavenly land. His final exit was 

 the triumphal departure of a Christian hero to the rich rewtirds of 

 the blest. " He was not, for God took him." 



