Author: Clark, Victorianus
Biography:
CLARK, Victorianus (1789-1843: ancestry.com)
Born in Litchfield County CT to Nehemiah and Lorain Clark, he married Rhoda Burnham in 1822 and served as State Representative of the town of Cornwall CT in 1833 and 1834. According to the Preface of his only book, he developed the use of rhyme as a mnemonic because he was himself visually impaired: he wrote, in 1819, that he had been "for several years, so deprived of the use of his eyes, as to be unable to read a sentence." He died in Torrington CT. (Theodore S. Gold, Historical Records of the Town of Cornwall . . . [1877]; ancestry.com 21 Mar. 2018) HJ
Books written (1):
Hartford [CT]: printed by Peter B. Gleason and Co., 1819