ID: Eliza R. (Fairfield) Clark (Gen. 9: John-Walter-William-Skipper-William-David-Jason-Jason-Eliza) 1910 census

Source: original image, Pomfret, Windham Co., CT

Transcription:

Clark, John D., head, age 31, first marriage, married 5 years, born in IA, father bp NJ, mother bp IA, physician

Clark, Eliza, wife, age 40, first marriage, married 5 years, born in CT, parents bp CT

Rickard, E.[Elizabeth] E., boarder, age 67, single, born in CT, father bp CT, mother bp RI

?, Pasquale, hired maid, age 22, single, born in ITALY, parents bp ITALY

Notes: Eliza was the daughter of Jason W. Fairfield Jr. and Eliza Randall. According to family historian Frank Corbin, Jason's wife Eliza died shortly after giving birth to daughter Eliza. "At the request of the mother, the bringing up of Eliza was intrusted to Miss Sarah Rickard, an old and very dear friend of the mother. While Eliza was a small girl they lived in Woonsocket, RI in the winter and spent the summers at the old Colonial home of the Randall family on Ragged Hill in Pomfret, Conn. [her father's birthplace] ... In the late 1880s and early 1890s she lived in Chicago with the family of her aunt, Mrs. Caroline Fairfield Corbin. Incidently, she thoroughly 'did' the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Shortly thereafter she returned to the east. There, she enrolled in the nurses training class at the hospital in Newton, Lower Falls, Mass. After graduation in 1897, she was made assistant superintendent and later superintendent. She held the latter office until she married. While working at the hospital she met Dr. John D. Clark, who was an intern there. They were married in 1905. Dr. Clark graduated from Harvard Medical School and did postgraduate work at the Mayo Hospital in Rochester, Minn. At the time of their marriage he was assisting in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. He went into general practice at Auberndale, Mass., and also taught anatomy at Harvard ... While still [working] in the hospital, Eliza bought a fine old Colonial house, built in 1735, located in Abington, Conn. [near Pomfret, her father's birthplace]. They lived in it for many years, but as they grew older it seemed to be too much of acare, so they sold it. However, they reserved a smaller house on the property in which they lived for the balance of their lives ... They had no children."