In Memoriam

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Excerpt from In Memoriam: Jonas Gilman Clark, Born, February 1st, 1815, Died May 23d, 1900 Jonas Gilman Clark was born at Hubbardston, Mass., on the first of February, 1815, and died in the city of Worcester on the 23d day of May, 1900. His early life was devoted to the acquisition of a fortune, and his later to the wise and intelligent study of the needs of his country along the lines of higher scientific education. The result was the founding and endowing, while he was yet living, of the institution at Worcester which bears his name, Clark University. This put him in the rank of those noble public benefactors whose munificence coming generations will enjoy, and from which great advantages will accrue to the individual, and inestimable blessings to the country and the world. Mr. Clark was, in the best sense of the word, a man of the people. He descended through a long line of ancestors, intelligent and worthy, who had developed high ideas of the duty of citizenship in a republic like ours, and notions of the responsibilities of wealth which result in the large philanthropies so characteristic of the section of the country in which he was born and reared. Mr. Clark could well be said to be a native product of our soil and truly be called an American of Americans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.