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Levi H. CLARK, a native of Sunderland, Mass., and graduate of Yale, 1802, studied law with the Hon. Charles CHAUNCEY of New Haven, and with Asa BACON, Esq., in Canterbury. He commenced practice in Haddam in the Spring of 1805. Levi H. CLARK removed from Haddam to Middletown in 1807 or 8. In both towns he had considerable paractice. About 1816, he removed to Carthage, N.Y., invested property in that village and engaged in the building of the famous "Carthage Bridge," which was the wonder of western tourists. In the fall of that bridge he lost much property, and resorted afterwards mainly to the use of his pen for support. In 1821, he was appointed an associate judge of the County Court for the new county of Munroe, and that year he reported the proceedings of the Convention which formed a constitution for the Empire State. His reports were subsequently published in an octavo volume, styled "Clarke's Reports." From that time until 1835, he was generally connected in some way with papers and publications in New York city, as owner, partner, editor or correspondent, and from 1835 until Jun 1839, was a justice of the 7th, 10th & 15th wards. He died a Feeding Hills in West Springfield, 6 Feb 1840, aged 57. There is much evidence that before his death he became a sincere christian