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From: "Shirley" <>
Subject: [MDSTMARY-L] JOSEPH HANSON CLARKE OBIT
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 16:46:49 -0800


Hello List,
Found the following obit. I know there are researchers
on this list interested in this family.
Shirley



http://www.rootsweb.com/~molincol/diaries/di-mudd-henry-7.htm

Death at 95

>From the Baltimore Sun

Prof. Joseph Hanson Clarke, a well-known educator, died

yesterday at his residence, 687 West Fayette street, in the 95th

year of his age. He was born on a farm near Hagerstown, Md.,

November 21, 1790, being descended, on the side of his father,

Robert Clarke, from Robert Clarke, one of the original settlers in

Maryland. At the age of 15 years he was sent to Georgetown

College, his father designing for the priesthood, but after graduation

he became professor of classics in the institution, which position her

held for three years. At the time of his sojourn at the college there

were but few signs of its future greatness. Bishop Leonard Neale

was President, and Rev. Francis Neale was Vice President of the

institution. Among those who studied with or under him at the

college were representatives of the Fenwicks, Bowlings, Diggs,

Hills, Semmes, Sewalls, Brookes, Mudds, Magruders, Neales,

Warings, Seatons Ords, Mesherrys and others. After leaving

Georgetown Prof. Clarke taught school at Bladensburg, and in

1816 went to Rieams where he remained nearly seven years,

teaching the classics and English. It was there that he taught the

famous author, young Edgar Allen Poe. In 1811 he married Miss

Jane Mudd, of the Charles County (Md.) family of that name. In

1826 he removed to Baltimore. Here for many years he taught

middle-aged men who were his pupils. His school for young men

was for many years at the corner of Charles and Barnet streets,

then parts of the town. He also at one time conducted a young

ladies academy, and also taught in Norfolk and Fredericksburg,

Va., and lived a retired life with his daughters who have for years

conducted Fairview Academy. His wife died in 1871, and he had

on son and eight daughters. He had met and remembered every

Bishop of Maryland from Charles Carroll to the present Archbishop.


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