Signer of the Declaration of Independence, born in Elizabethtown, NJ, on the 15th of February 1726; died in Rahway, on the 15th of September 1794. By profession he was a surveyor and conveyancer and earned the title of “poor man’s counselor.” He was elected to the Continental Congress, serving from 1776 to 1783, with the exception of 1779, and he had a place in the New Jersey legislature from 1782 to 1787, and from 1787 to 1788 was again in the Continental Congress. Mr. Clark had been called the “Father of the Paper Currency.” From 1791 till his death he held a seat in the United States Congress.
