This is a transcription of the Clara Augusta (Jones) Trask  biography from New Hampshire Women: A Collection of Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Daughters and Residents of the Granite State, Who are Worthy Representatives of their Sex in the Various Walks and Conditions of Life, The New Hampshire Publishing Co., Concord, NH, 1895, page 239.

Clara Augusta (Jones) Trask

Clara Augusta Jones was born in Farmington, N.H., within a half mile of the childhood’s home of the late Vice-President Henry Wilson, and was the daughter of Jeremiah Jones and his wife, Tamson Roberts. Her grandmother on her father’s side was the accomplished daughter of Col. Crane, an officer in the British army, and a lineal descendant of Henry, Earl of Surry. Her maternal grandfather served in the Revolution and at the close of the war walked home from Charleston, S.C., barefooted, with a handful of worthless continental money to recompense him for long years of hard and perilous service. Clara Augusta was the child of her father’s old age, and a very precocious child, as well. Her first published article appeared when she was but thirteen years of age, and since that time she has written continuously, for newspapers, magazines, and periodicals without number. Perhaps her best known articles are the “Kate Thorn” papers and essays, which have been copied widely, as well as translated into several languages for use in foreign periodicals. The Lippincotts of Philadelphia published a volume of her poems some years ago, and she is the author of several humorous books, the most noted of which is “The Adventures of a Bashful Bachelor.” Nearly eighteen years ago she was married to Mr. Elbridge S. Trask, and resides in Framingham Centre, Mass., in one of the old historic mansions of that charming suburban town. Mrs. Trask is a member of the New England Woman’s Press Association, of the Daughters of New Hampshire, of the Gen. J. G. Foster W. R. C., of the Framingham Woman’s Club, and a well-known worker in the order of the Patrons of Husbandry. She is still in the literary harness, and finds herself often pressed for time to meet her numerous engagements.