Dodge County GaArchives Biographies.....Clark, John Benjamin 1869 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   JOHN BENJAMIN CLARK, M. D., is one of the best known physicians in the
central part of Georgia, and a man whose efficiency and lofty purpose entitle
him to stand high among the names in the medical profession. Thoroughly grounded
in the elements of medicine at several eastern schools of high standing he has
since increased his knowledge by the experience gained from his large general
practice. Although he has been an extremely busy man he has yet found time for
civic and social interests and is a prominent and popular man in his locality.

   Born in Dodge county, Georgia, March 29, 1869, his parents were Harlow and
Cassie Annie (Miller) Clark. Dodge county, or Montgomery county, as it was
called at that time, was also the birthplace of his father, who first saw the
light on February 26, 1845. Mr. Clark, Sr., who is still living, ran away from
home when he was fourteen years of age to enter the army, enlisting under Col.
Alfred H. Colquist in Wheeler's Brigade. Many times during the war he proved
himself a hero, and even after the surrender was in a battle below Atlanta. Dr.
Clark's mother was born near Mt. Vernon, Montgomery county, September 19,1846.
The subject of this sketch was one of five children, four of whom, Symanthy T.,
Mary F. and Cassie G. are still living. His one brother, Bartlett Hamilton, died
in March, 1905, just five days before he was to have been graduated from the law
school of the University of Virginia.

   Dr. Clark received his primary education in the public schools of Dodge
county, and from them was sent to Dahlonega Agriculture College, where he took
both the preparatory and college courses. He received his A. B. degree with the
class of 1891. Most of his medical work was taken at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, Baltimore, Maryland; he supplemented the teaching he received
there, however, by attending at the same time the lectures at Johns Hopkins
University. After receiving his M. D. he at once started practice in Eastman,
where his merits as a physician and his personal integrity soon attracted to him
a substantial clientele. Dr. Clark has found opportunity among the many demands
on his time for a participation in social affairs, and is a Royal Arch Mason and
a Shriner K. T., holding membership in the Macon lodge. He is also a substantial
landowner, owning the title deed to fourteen hundred acres of land, of which
eleven hundred are under cultivation, and bearing sufficiently to support as
tenants seventy-two people.

   His wife, Annie M. Clark, is the daughter of Robert Harwell of Mechlinburg,
Virginia, and is a graduate of St. Mary's Female Seminary of Maryland. They have
had three children, Frederick Harlow, born in 1895; Alma May, born in 1898, and
Mary Campbell, born in 1907. Frederick is at present a student, at College Park,
Atlanta.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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