Reed Paige Clark Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Betsy Webber - betsy@megalink.net

Surname: CLARK
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

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     REED PAIGE CLARK, son of William and Alice W. (McIntire) Clark,
was born in Londonderry, Rockingham County, N. H., August 19, 1878.
He attended the common schools of Londonderry and Derry, N. H., and
then pursued his studies at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, l890-l894, graduat-
ing from the classical course in June, 1895. He was a student at Columbian
College, now the George Washington University, at Washington, D. C.,
1894-1898, receiving the degree of A. B. in May, 1898. From the Columbian
Law School, Washington, which he attended from 1898 to 1901, he received
the degree of LL. B. in May, 1901. In I900-I901 he attended the Columbian
Graduate school, Washington, receiving the degree of A. M. from that institu-
tion in May, 1901.
     Mr. Clark was assistant (one year) and instructor in French at the
Columbian Scientific School, 1898-1901; instructor in German at National
Park Seminary, Forest Glen, Md., 1899-1900; instructor in modern languages

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(French and German) at Columbian College, 1900-1901; tutor at various
times in Latin, French and German; private secretary to Hon. Henry E.
Burnham, United States Senate, and clerk to the Senate Committees on Indus-
trial Expos1tions, Cuban Relations, Claims, and Agriculture and Forestry,
July I, 1901, to November 30,1911, general receiver of customs for the
Republic of Liberia (commissioned) November 18, 1911. He was admitted
to the New Hampshire bar, June 29, 1907.
     Mr. Clark's society affiliations are as follows: Epsilon Chapter, Sigma
Chi, Columbian University; St. Mark's Lodge, No.44, F. & A. M., Bell
Royal Arch Chapter, No.25, Mt. Nebo Council, No.15, and Ransford
Chapter, No.3, 0. E. S., all of Derry, N. H.; Wildey Lodge, No. 45,
I. 0. 0. F., Manchester, N. H. ; The National Geographical Society, Wash-
ington, D. C.; Calvary Baptist Church, Washington, D. C.; The New Hamp-
shire Bar Association; The Derryfield Club, Manchester, N. H.; and The
University Club, Washington, D. C.
     Mr. Clark was awarded the Staughton Prize for excellence in Latin and the
Elton Prize for excellence in Greek, at Columbian College, in May, 1898. He
was president, senior class, Columbian College, 1898, and vice president, first
year class, Columbian Law School, 1898-1899. Among his literary activities
are the following: editor of a college edition of Rostand's "Cyrano de Ber-
gerac," 1898; thesis on Cyrano de Bergerac for the degree of A. M., 1901;
newspaper art1cles on Alaska, 1905; editor of an historical pamphlet, pub-
lished by the District Number Eight Old Home Association, Londonderry,
1908, and newspaper articles on Mexico, 1910. He traveled in Europe, June
to September, 1900; in Alaska, June to September, 1905; in Mexico and
Yucatan, September to November, 1909, and in the Dominican Republic
and Cuba, December, 1911.

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