BIOGRAPHY OF THE HON. LEWIS W. CLARK of Manchester NH
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SOURCE:
Manchester, A Brief Record of its Past and A Picture of Its Present, 
including an account of is settlement and its growth as town and city; 
a history of its schools, churches, societies, banks, post-offices, 
newspapers and manufactures; a description of its government, police 
and fire department, public buildings, library, water-works, 
cemeteries, streets, streams, railways and bridges; a complete list of 
the selectmen, moderators and clerks of the town and members of the 
councils, marshals and engineers of the city, with the state of the 
cote for mayor at each election; the story of its part in the war of 
the rebellion with a complete list of its soldiers who went ot the war; 
and sketches of its representative citizens; Manchester N.H.; John B. 
Clark; 1875
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THE HON. LEWiS W. CLARK
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Lewis Whitehouse Clark was born August 19, 1828, at Barnstead NH. He is
the son of Jeremiah and Hannah (Whitehouse) Clark, and has one sister--
Sarah M., wife of Samuel E. Batchelder of Illini, ILL. He acquired his
preliminary education in the common schools at Barnstead and in the
academies in Pittsfield and Atkinson and then entered Dartmouth College
where he was graduated in 1850. From August 1850 to December 1852,
he was principal of the academy at Pittsfield. Meanwhile he studied law,
at first with the Hon. Moses Norris and then with A.F.L. Norris, at
Pittsfield, and was admitted to the Belknap county bar from the office
of the latter, eptember 3, 1852. He then began the practice of his
profession at Pittsfield and continued there until April 2, 1860, when
he came to Manchester [NH] and formed a partnership with the Hon.
George W. Morrison and the Hon. Clinton W. Stanley. He dissolved his
connection with them in November, 1866, practiced alone a year or two
and then associated himself with Henry H. Huse, continuing this
partnership until May 24, 1872, when he was appointed attorney-general
of New Hampshire to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Hon.
William C. Clarke, which position he has since retained. He was one of
the representatives from Pittsfield to the state legislature in 1856
and 1857, and in 1865 was the nominee of the Democratic party for member
of congress from the second congressional district.
  Mr. Clark married December 29, 1852, Miss Helen M., daughter of the
late Capt. William Knowlton of Pittsfield, by whom he has one daughter
and one son, Mary Helen and John Lew.
  Few men in New Hampshire have so many warm personal friends as the 
subject of this sketch. A very liberal man, of patriotic and high-toned
impulses, he is widely known and widely liked. He has no superior in the
state as a ready off-hand speaker, feliticous in language, eloquent in
thought and generous in every impulse.  He is an admirable advocate
before a jury, and whenever he appears as a public speaker, whether in
the performance or his professional duties as the attorney-general of
the state, as a political orator or in any other capacity, he acquits
himself with signal ability.

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