Clark, Charles E
naval officer, was born in Vermont about 1848. He was a cadet in the naval academy when the civil war began and was made a midshipman. He has long been attached to ships in Pacific waters, in the Pacific and Asiatic squadrons. As commander of the first-class battleship Oregon, he was the first naval officer to bring a great modern battleship around Cape Horn; and his gallant work in destroying the Spanish fleet in 1898 has made his name a household word throughout the civilized world.