A biographical note on John Bates Clark

This note reports some information about the life of John Bates Clark which come from an unpublished family history written in 1968 by John Bates Clark's nephew, Frederick Clark Lyman, the son of his sister Elizabeth Huntington Clark Lyman. This new material and the biographical details are checked and complemented with other sources, in particular Alden H. Clark's memorial publication written in 1938. [Publisher's Text].