Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . , his frankness and keenness as an question put, the answer comes like a flash, sometimes convulsingone with its wit, but always unerringly straight to the point. Men of such mold cannot be in constant agreement with all theirfellows, nor yet at all times with the majority of those with whomthey may most like to agree. But they conduct their contests in theopen, and it is when both sides or all sides are contesting in theopen, in politics, that such men become p
Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . , his frankness and keenness as an question put, the answer comes like a flash, sometimes convulsingone with its wit, but always unerringly straight to the point. Men of such mold cannot be in constant agreement with all theirfellows, nor yet at all times with the majority of those with whomthey may most like to agree. But they conduct their contests in theopen, and it is when both sides or all sides are contesting in theopen, in politics, that such men become party counselors and are the men who stand for action as against dark-room plot-ting, for having the public see everything that is done and how it isdone, and then doing it, accepting iuU responsibility in their con-sciousness of above-board purpose. If there is such a thing as the old New England conscience, sooften mentioned in literature, Mr. Clark should have it by inheritance,for his ancestors include Elder William Brewster, Benjamin Payne,Matthew Grant, John Hopkins, Nathaniel Whiting, John Dwight,. ^ ^lfl^l^^J(^ OHABLES HOPKINS CLARK 233 John Bronson, William Clarke, John Strong, and Joseph is hardly necessary to mention the deeds of these builders of NewEngland and American history; aside from their achievements it isto be noted that each was an exemplar of those sturdy qualities—oldNew England conscience or what you will—which so materiallyhave advanced the nation and the race. Mr. Clarks father was the Hon. Ezra Clark who, as president ofthe Board of Water Commissioners, did much toward establishingHartfords splendid system of water supply, and who also served theFirst Connecticut District most acceptably as its representative inCongress. He was a merchant and a manufacturer. His wife wasMary Hopkins. The son, Charles Hopkins Clark, was born in Hart-ford, April 1st, 1848. Nearly all Hartford youths preparing for college go to the Hart-
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