CLARK, JOHN ARTHUR (1837-1907)

CLARK, JOHN ARTHUR, Methodist minister, Newcastle circuit, 1887-90 and 1896-99; b. Saint John, 11 Apr 1837, s/o John Clark and Hannah Hunter; m. 1st, 1870, Mary Elizabeth Robinson, of Saint John, and 2nd, 1886, Nettie (Thompson) Stevenson, a native of St Stephen; d. Saint John, 14 Apr 1907.

John A. Clark was from a family associated with the lumbering and shipbuilding industries in Yarmouth, N.S., and later in Saint John. He obtained his higher education at Mount Allison College and Genesee College at Lima, N.Y., and an MA was usually appended to his name. Ordained in 1868, he was pastor of several urban churches in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, including the Grafton Street Methodist Church in Halifax. His two three-year terms at Newcastle in the 1880s and 90s were late in his ministry, and when he completed the second of them in 1899 he entered retirement in Saint John. He died there eight years later, survived by his second wife and three children.

Clark was a brother of the longtime Saint John police chief W. Walker Clark. Another brother, Robert Clark, was with the Boston police force.