CLARKE, PELEG – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons By E. Cleave

LARKE,
PELEG, M. D., of Providence, R. I., was born in Richmond, R. I.,
August 5th, 1784. Having completed his preparatory education in the
schools of his native State. He entered upon the study of medicine under
Dr. Nathan Knight, of South Kingston, R. I., which he continued under
Dr. Caleb Fiske, of Johnston, R. I. In 1808, he commenced practice in
Johnston, where he labored with success until 1813. In that year he
attended lectures in the Medical Department of Brown University. He was
one of the original petitioners for a charter for the first medical
society established in the State of Rhode Island, and is the only one of
them surviving. He still retains his membership. In 1832, he removed to
Coventry and practiced allopathy until 1844. Until this year, so little
were the merits of homœopathy acknowledged, that in the whole State
there were but one or two of its adherents who ventured upon its
practice. Dr. Clarke, after a careful and thoughtful examination of the
system, bravely adopted it, and by his sound and judicious treatment,
contributed largely to pave the way for its rapid extension throughout
the State. His advancing years and increasing infirmities compelling his
retirement to private life, his withdrawal was honored with the laurels
he had so well deserved. His mantle has fallen upon the shoulders of his
sons, H. B. Clarke and J. S. Clarke, whose records, herein written to
date, give evidence that they will wear it gracefully and honorably.

Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave