. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. AUSTIN ROE PRESTON Loran L. Lewis, at one time Justice of the SupremeCourt of the State of New York. They have fourchildren : Charlotte R., Louise L., Sally W., andAustin Roe Preston, Jr. 354 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS CLARK, Daniel Abraham Princeton in Rahway, N. J., 1779 ; prepared for Collegeunder private tutor; graduated Princeton, 1808; stud-ied theology at Andover and licensed to preach, 1810
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. AUSTIN ROE PRESTON Loran L. Lewis, at one time Justice of the SupremeCourt of the State of New York. They have fourchildren : Charlotte R., Louise L., Sally W., andAustin Roe Preston, Jr. 354 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS CLARK, Daniel Abraham Princeton in Rahway, N. J., 1779 ; prepared for Collegeunder private tutor; graduated Princeton, 1808; stud-ied theology at Andover and licensed to preach, 1810;ordained minister, 1812 ; Pastor of churches in Brain-tree and Weymouth, Mass., and Southbury, Conn.; atAmherst, Mass., 1820; one of the founders of AmherstCollege ; minister at Bennington, Vt., and Troy, N. Y.;in N. Y. City, 1833 to time of his death ; died 1840. D.\NIEL . CL.\RK, Clergyman,was born in Rahway, New Jersey, March i,1779, the son of David and Elizabeth (Moore). Clark. The family, prominent in Colonial antlRevolutionary history, springs from Richard Clark,a settler in this country about 1621. One of itsmembers, Abraham Clark, was a Signer of theDeclaration of Independence. Daniel A. Clarkwas prepared for College imder the private tutorageof the Rev. Dr. Finley of Baskingridge, New Jersey,and entered Princeton in 1805 with advancedstanding, graduating in 1808. .\s one of thehighest scholars of his class, he was offered a tutor-ship in the University, but desiring to enter theministry without unnecessary delay he preferredto pursue his studies without interruption, and tothis end he entered the Andover Theological Semi-nary. He completed his Divinity course at this school, was licensed to preach in October 1810,and ordained a minister of the gospel in first charge was the Congregational UnionChurch of Braintree and Weymouth, Massachusetts,from which he went to Southbury, Connecticut,and in 1S20 to Amherst, Massachusetts. Whilea ministe
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