The Declaration, the Constitution, the life of every signer, and every President's inaugural from Washington to Pierce — the patriotic shelf of an American parlor of 1855, complete in one volume.

Abraham Clark

2 pages in this part of The American's Own Book.

The Signers of the Declaration, by State

Abraham Clark

THE quiet and unobtrusive course of life which Mr. CLARK pursued, furnishes few materials for biography. He was born in Elizabethtown, New…

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