Dorus Clarke

The Reverend Dorus Clarke (1797-1884) was a man of letters — he had studied at Williams and Andover — as well as a Congregationalist minister.

Some twenty items are ascribed to him in the National Union Catalog, including a memorial volume and one devoted to his life and work, published during his lifetime. But it seems likely that his audience was narrowly sectarian. From 1842 he edited a journal called The New England Puritan, and later others called Mothers' Magazine, Christian Alliance and Family Visitor, and Christian Times. His best-known book was Orthodox Congregationalism and the Sects.

In 1878 he published an essay, Saying the Catechism, describing his home town of Westhampton, Massachusetts, as he remembered it from his childhood: Here, everyone observed Saturday evening as a part of the Sabbath; and three Sundays of the year were devoted to testing (or displaying) the children's knowledge of the catechism — which was taught in the family, the church, and the school — and everyone took pride in their familiarity with it. It was part of the secular culture of that time and place. Clarke yearned back to that culture, but it was already, in 1878, a part of the past, the possession of his memory, a subject for him to write about, not a part of contemporary America.

Clarke was an officer of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

His daughter, Susan Cornelia Clarke (1825-1901), married Samuel Denis Warren (1817-1888), who founded the Cumberland Paper Mills in Maine and they had five children: Samuel Dennis Warren II (1852-1910), lawyer and businessman; Henry Clarke Warren (1854-1899), scholar of Sanskrit and Pali; Cornelia Lyman Warren (1857-1921), philanthropist; Edward Perry Warren (1860-1928), art collector; Fredrick Fiske Warren (1862-1938), political radical and utopist.

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