General Notes

CLARENCE SPALDING SARGENT

(In College 1875-76: A.B.)

CLARENCE S. SARGENT, son of Rev. Dr. Roger Moses and Elizabeth G. (Spalding) Sargent, was born 29 July, 1855, in Gilmanton, N. H.; he died 21 Sept., 1921, in Little Rock, Ark., of cerebral hemorrhage. His father graduated at Dartmouth in 1846 and his grandfather graduated there in 1817.
Sargent spent three years in Shurtleff College, Illinois, and entered Dartmouth as a Senior. He studied theology' in Yale Divinity SchooL graduating in 1879. This was followed by pastorates in Brewer,  Maine, New Haven,  Vermont., and Adams,  Massachusetts In 1894 he assumed charge of Central Church, St. Louis, Mo., remaining there five years. Then for three years he held a pastorate in Omaha, followed by seven years an pastor of Plymouth Church, Wichita, Kans.
In 1909 Sargent left the Congregational ministry to enter the Episcopal Church. He became rector of Grace Church, Hutchinson, Kans., and from 1914 until a short time before his death was rector of Trinity Church, Marshall, Tex. He was energetic in everything which he undertook, and his activities extended in many directions outside his ministry. He was given the doctorate of divinity by Whitman College In 1894.
He married, 18 Jan., 1882, Miss Mary Zelie of Bangor,  Maine They had five children. His eldest daughter, Constance Mary (A.B., University of Chicago, 1909), died in 1918 as a result of overexertion in Red Cross work in France. Elizabeth Margaret Sargent received the A.B. at the University of Michigan in 1913. His sons Philip Clarence and Lawrence Prescott served in the World War. The former was in the Infantry, and was wounded in action. The latter, a graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1917, was in command of a fleet of eighteen submarine chasers off the Irish coast in the last months of the war.