John Jones Clarke [photograph], [ca. 1845-1850].

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John Jones Clarke [photograph], [ca. 1845-1850].

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Half-plate, hand-colored daguerreotype in leather case of John Jones Clarke (1803-1887), taken by Collins's Skylight Portraits of Philadelphia, Penn., ca. 1845-1850.

1 photograph : daguerreotype, b&w, hand-colored ; visible oval image 12 x 8 1/2 cm. (half-plate), in case 15 x 12 cm.

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John Jones Clarke was a Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) lawyer who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1836 and 1837 and a member of the Massachusetts State Senate in 1853. Clarke served as Roxbury's first mayor in 1846. He also was one of the founders and the first president of the Roxbury Gas Company and for a time was one of the directors of the Metropolitan Railroad. Clarke married Rebecca Cordis Haswell Clarke in 1830. From the description of John Jones Clarke ...

Clarke, John Jones, 1803-1887.

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