[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] offices of trust in the town, is one of its justices and excise commissioner at the present time and one of its leading citizens. Samuel I!. ('lark, the present town clerk, has held the office of town clerk since 18.r>f>. He resides in a modest village residence just below the hill on which stands the Episcopal Church, of which he is the sex-ton..Mr. ('lark's father, Jesse Clark, was a familiar figure to the early residents of the town before the ad-vent of the railroad, as tw ice each week his market -wagon gathered up the butter, cheese, eggs, etc.. at the highest prices and conveyed them to Sing Sing. Mr. Clark was formerly engaged in teaching in South Salem and has often slept in the room where Andre was confined. He has now, however, retired from active life, save attention to the duties of his office, which he discharges in a most excellent and faithful manner. In a small, neat dwelling in Salem Centre resides one of the oldest residents and officials of the town, Jonathan VanScoy. At the first town-meeting Timothy Van Scoy was elected overseer of the poor and trustee to provide a place for the reception of the