Life After Baseball
After his baseball career ended, Clarkson moved to Bay City, Michigan and ran a cigar store there until 1906.
In either 1905 or 1906, Clarkson suffered a breakdown, was declared insane, and was committed to an insane asylum. Clarkson spent much of the next three years in mental hospitals.
During a visit with family in 1909, Clarkson fell seriously ill, and was admitted to the McLean Hospital in Waltham, Massachusetts, a well-known psychiatric clinic. He died there, of pneumonia, February 4, 1909, aged 47. Baseball History: 19th Century Baseball: The Players: John Clarkson at www.19cbaseball.com
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