Alvan Clark

1804 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Alvan Clark
  Birth	8 Mar 1804	Ashfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I28006	Ingram-Related
  Last Modified	14 Aug 2024

  
  

  Father	Alvan Clark
  Mother	Mary Bassett
  Marriage	5 Feb 1795	Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F10680	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Distinguished Telescope Maker. ALVAN CLARK, a portrait-painter and telescope-maker, was born here March8, 1804. With a reflecting telescope made by himself hediscovered thenew star near Sirius, for which he received, in 1863,the La Lande prizefrom the French Academy of Sciences.