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Clare, Ada – Clark, Charles B
Clare, Ada
actress, author, was born about 1835 in the southern states. She made her debut as an actress at the Academy of Music of New York in 1855, as Ophelia in Hamlet, but soon became better known as a writer than as an actress. She was the author of a volume entitled Only a Woman's Heart. She died March 4, 1874.
Clark, Abraham
signer of the declaration of independence, was born Feb. 13, 1726, near Elizabethtown, N. J. He was sheriff and clerk of the colonial assembly, one of the delegates to the continental congress, and a signer of the declaration of independence; after the adoption of the constitution, he was a representative in congress, from New Jersey, from 1791 to 1794, when he resigned. He died Sept. 15, 1794, in Rahway, N. J.
Clark, Addison
educator, college president, clergyman, was born Dec. 11, 1842, in Titus county, Texas. He graduated from Carlton college, and subsequently became a minister of the gospel; and is now the president of the Addkan university of Waco, Texas.
Clark, Alexander
clergyman, author, was born March 10, 1834, in Jefferson county, Ohio. He was a methodist protestant clergyman of Pittsburg, and the author of The Old Log Schoolhouse; Workaday Christianity; The Red Sea Freedman; School Day Dialogues; The Gospel in the Trees; Rambles in Europe; Starting Out, a Story of the Ohio Hills; and Ripples on the River, a collection of verses. He died July 6, 1879, in Georgia.
Clark, Alonzo Howard
naturalist, author, was born April 13, 1850, in Boston, Mass. He is a naturalist in the United States National museum at Washington, who has published Statistics of Fisheries of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut; Statistics of Fisheries of Massachusetts; and History of the Mackerel Fishery.
Clark, Alvah A
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 13, 1840, in Lebanon, N. Y. He became a councilor-at-law in 1867; and was elected a representative, from New Jersey, to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a democrat.
Clark, Alvan
optician, was born March 8, 1804, in Ashfield, Mass. He was the first person in the United States to overcome the difficulties of the achromatic lens, and achieved such skill that the most important telescopes of modern times have been made in his factory in Cambridge. He died Aug. 19, 1887, in Cambridgeport, Mass.
Clark, Ambrose W
journalist, congressman, diplomat, was born Feb. 19, 1810, near Cooperstown, N. Y. He published for five years the Otsego Republican; established and published for eight years the Northern Journal; and also published for sixteen years the Northern New York Journal. In 1859 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress in 1862. In 1865 he was appointed consul at Valparaiso.
Clark, Billy James
reformer, legislator, was born Jan. 4, 1728, in Northampton, Mass. He organized what is claimed to have been the first temperance society in the world, at Moreau, Saratoga county, N. Y., in 1808. Dr. Clark was a member of the legislature from Saratoga county in 1821, and was a member of the electoral college in 1848. He died March 20, 1867, in Glens Falls, N. Y.
Clark, Charles B
soldier, educator, clergyman, was born Dec. 28, 1837, in Saguoit, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the High school and graduated from the Iowa Wesleyan university at Mount Pleasant. During the civil war he served in the twenty-fifth regiment Iowa volunteer infantry, and in 1897 was elected department commander for South Dakota of the Grand Army of the Republic.