History of Copenhagen, (Lewis County) New York United States of America

Biographies:

Biographical Sketch of J. Scott Clark

J. Scott Clark, educator, was born in Copenhagen, N.Y., Sept. 23, 1854; son of Nathan and Eliza A. (Clark) Clark; grandson of Orrin and Elizabeth (Hart) Clark; and a direct descendant from Deacon James Clark, a Scotch Presbyterian, who went from Scotland to Ireland, and thence to America, and was one of the founders of Londonderry, N. H., April, 1719. His son, John S. Clark, served in both the French and Indian and the Revolutionary wars. Scott was prepared for college at the Hungerford collegiate institute, Adams, N.Y., and was graduated at Syracuse university in 1877, receiving his A.M. degree in 1880. He travelled in a business capacity through the United States, 1877-79, while waiting to regain the use of his overstrained eyes before entering on his chosen profession, and he contributed numerous letters of travel to newspapers. He was principal of the Evanston, Ill., high school, 1879-82; instructor in rhetoric, English criticism and elocution at Syracuse university, 1882-86; full professor, 1886-92; and professor of the English language in Northwestern university, Evanston, Ill., from 1892. He was married Jan. 5, 1885, to Carrie Fisher, daughter of Joseph Cumming Johnson of Memphis, Tenn., a student of Vassar and Wellesley colleges. He published A Practical Rhetoric (1886); A Briefer Practical Rhetoric (1888); The Art of Reading Aloud (1892); A Study of English Prose Writers (1898).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor