Chittenden

CLARKE, John Murray

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, pp 149-150

John Murray CLARKE, Burlington [Chittenden County, Vermont], physician, was 
born 21 September 1846 in Concord [Essex County, Vermont], son of Charles 
Chapman and Alice (MARSH) CLARKE. Educated in the public schools of 
Massachusetts, Green Mountain Institute, South Woodstock [Windsor County, 
Vermont], Harvard Medical College, and University of Vermont Medical College, 
M. D. 1878. Served as interne one year in city hospital at Hartford, 
Connecticut; joined medical staff at the Brattleboro Asylum 1872 as second 
assistant physician, the following year being promoted to first assistant 
superintendent, remaining there ten years; 1882 removed to Burlington and 
established Lake View Sanitarium for the treatment of nervous and mild mental 
diseases, continuing the institution to 1904; since then has devoted his time 
and experience to consultation work in mental diseases. Republican; alderman 
four years; chairman of commission to install city water filtration plant. 
Unitarian; served on church committee six years. Member of all Masonic 
bodies; past master, past high priest, and past eminent commander; 32 degrees 
Scottish Rite; member of Cairo Temple, Mystic Shrine; president Vermont State 
Medical Society 1888. In 1874 he [Dr. John Murray CLARKE] married [Miss?] 
Julia GLEASON of Hartford [Hartford County], Connecticut; they had three 
children: John Murray, deceased; Julia G., deceased; and Alice Gleason, wife 
of Edward P. WOODBURY of Burlington.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly