Background
Clark was born in Saybrook, Connecticut, June 11, 1818.
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Charles Clark
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He taught in the academy in Clinton, Connecticut, for a year after graduating from Yale College in 1841. And then studied law, first in Saybrook, and subsequently in Rochester, New York He was admitted to the bar in October 1845, and was for many years a successful lawyer in Rochester.
Career
In 1858 he was mayor of the city, and in June 1863, was appointed Colonel of the 54th Regiment of the New York State National Guard. He died in Rochester, November 20, 1870, aged 52, having been affected for nearly a year with an organic disease of the heart which was apparently complicated with a disease of the brain. This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.
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November 20, 1873 (aged 55)