Samuel Clarke
American
Samuel Clarke was an American apothecary and the father Unitarian theologian James Freeman Clarke. - AsNotedIn
Lineage
- Mother Martha Clarke Freeman
- Son: James Freeman Clarke
Samuel Clarke was an American apothecary and the father Unitarian theologian James Freeman Clarke. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1779/02/20 | Martha Clarke Freeman, wife of Samuel Clarke, gives birth to a son, Samuel Clarke at home (lost) on School Street in Boston, Massachusetts. | Born | |||||
| 1790/00/00 | Like many Clarkes before, Samuel Clarke attends Boston Latin School (lost). | Education | Parker House | Boston | |||
| 1805/04/28 | Samuel Clarke and Rebecca Parker Hull file marriage intentions in Newton, Massachusetts. | Groom | |||||
| 1805/05/18 | Rebecca Hull, daughter of William Hull and Sarah Fuller Hull, marries Samuel Clarke. | Groom | King's Chapel, Boston | Boston | |||
| 1807/00/00 | Sam and Rebecca Clarke raise merino sheep on an lonely farm, 2 or 3 miles from the nearest neighbor, on the Connecticut River in Maidstone. Sam, a county judge is frequently absent, leaving his wife and child on the homestead. | Life | Maidstone | Vermont | |||
| 1810/00/00 | Sam Clarke studies medicine with Professor Nathan Smith of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. | Education | Dartmouth College campus | Hanover, NH | |||
| 1811/00/00 | Before the end of 1810, Sam Clarke earns his doctor of medicine degree and returns to Massachusetts to practice medicine. The Clarke's live in Newtonville, with Rev James Freeman, well known to people in Boston, as the minister of King's Chapel. | Home Locale | John Harbach House | Newton, MA | |||
| 1817/00/00 | Dr Samuel Clarke, apothecary, purchases the Crease building. The Clarke family live at Sam's mother's house, the Freeman House on Vine Street, Boston. | Work | Old Corner Bookstore | Boston | |||
| 1820/00/00 | Before phosphorus matches came, and while we still depended on flint, steel, and tinder-box, Samuel Clarke lights his candles by a jet of hydrogen thrown on platina sponge. - James Freeman Clarke | Life | Invention of the Safety Match | ||||
| 1829/00/00 | Samuel Clarke builds a chemical factory (lost) where he sublimates calomel and manufactures lunar caustic, tartaric acid and other chemicals. Dr Clarke erects a dam on Cold Spring Brook to supply water for a mill he is building to grind drugs. | Work | Newton Cemetery and Arboretum | Newton, MA | |||
| 1830/00/00 | A residence is built for Samuel Clarke and family. The home has been incorporated as a wing of the current building. | Home | Clarke Waters House | Haverhill | |||
| 1830/11/30 | Samuel Clarke is seized with fever and dies in Newton, Massachusetts. Mr Clark is buried at East Parish Burying Ground in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. | Died | East Parish Burying Ground | Newton, MA |
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