CLARK, Ephraim W

[s. 196] : Born Haver hill, N. H., April 25, 1799; graduated at Dart mouth College, 1824; And over Theological Seminary, 1827; ordained at Brandon, Vt.; sailed as a mi ionary of the ABCFM, Nov embers, 1827, for the Sandwich Islands, reaching Honolulu, March, 1828. In 1852 he went with the first company of American and Hawaiian laborers to a ist in commencing the mi ion in Mic rones i a. In this duty he represented the Hawaiian Mi ionary Society. In 1863, having been for fifteen years pastor of the large First Church at Honolulu, he resigned the pastorate, partly because of insufficient strength, but mainly that he might engage more fully in Bible revision. Having spent a year on that work at the islands, he was sent to New York in 1864 by the mi ion to superintend the printing of the Hawaiian Scriptures by the American Bible Society, reading proofs, preparing references, etc. This was followed by the translation and printing of the Tract Society’s Bible Dictionary, and several other books and tracts. The last work completed was a hymn and tune book. He did not return to the islands. He died July 16, 1878, aged seventy-nine. 196