Reed P. 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

Page 1104

     REED P. CLARK, whose death on April 8, 1882, deprived Londonderry,
N. H., of one of its most useful and public spirited citizens, was a son of

Pages 1105 and 1106 contained his portrait

Page 1107

Ninian Clark of Hillsborough County, N. H.; but spent the greater part of
his life in Londonderry. He was a man of much practical knowledge and
force of character; and among his other accomplishments was an expert
penman. As an agriculturist he gained fame by raising nursery stock and
experimenting on vegetable culture, He was the originator of the celebrated
Clark's No. I potato, which he produced on the fame now occupied by his son
William, and gave to the world as propagated by Reed P. Clark and son.
He was also an efficient horse trainer and a skilled worker in wood, Originally
a whig in polities and later a republican, he took an active interest in, public
affairs and was largely instrumental in changing Londonderry from a demo-
cratic to a republican town. He served as selectman, as representative to the
legislature, and as a member of Governor Goodwin's and Governor Berry's
councils, For a number of years he was a trustee of the New Hampshire
State Reform School at Manchester, He married Elizabeth Perkins, A
sketch of their son William, above mentioned, may be found on another page
of this volume.

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