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Clarke, Bayard

soldier, congressman, was born March 17, 1815, in New York city. He served in the second regiment of dragoons through the Florida war; resigned in 1843, and settled at Westchester, N. Y., which district he represented in the thirty-fourth congress.

Clarke, Benjamin Franklin

educator, college president, was born July 14, 1831, in Newport, Maine. He graduated from the Brown university, in which institution he has been professor and acting president for many years.

Clarke, Beverly L

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a member of the state legislature in 1841 and 1842; and was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1849. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1847 to 1849; and in 1858 was appointed minister to Guatemala and Honduras. He died March 7, 1860, in Honduras.

Clarke, Charles E

congressman, was born in 1789 in New York. In 1839 and 1840 he was a member of the New York assembly from Jefferson county; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851. He died Dec. 29, 1863.

Clarke, Charles J

business man, was born March 15, 1833, in Pittsburg, Pa. He was president for sixteen years of the Mercantile Library Hall Co.; and is vice-president of the Pennsylvania College for Women. He is a director of the Pittsburg Safe Deposit and Trust Co.; the Western Insurance Co.; and a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburg.

Clarke, Daniel

congressman. He was a delegate to congress from the territory of Orleans or Louisiana from 1806 to

Clarke, Edward Fielding

lawyer, was born March 19, 1873, in Morehead, Ky. He studied law in his father's office; was admitted to the bar in 1894, and practices his profession in his native city.

Clarke, Edward Hammond

physician, author, was born Feb. 2, 1820, in Norton, Mass. He was a prominent physician and medical writer of Boston; and the author of Sex in Education; The Building of a Brain; Visions: a Study of False Sight; and Nature and Treatment of Polypus of the Ear. He died Nov. 30, 1877, in Boston, Mass.

Clarke, Elijah

soldier, was born in North Carolina. He became a captain in 1776, and distinguished himself in engagements both with Indians and British on the frontiers of Georgia. He afterward fought many battles, and made several treaties with the Creek Indians. He died Dec. 15, 1809, in Wilkes county, Pa.

Clarke, Freeman

merchant, banker, railroad president, congressman, was born March 22, 1809, in Troy, N. Y. In 1862 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-eighth congress.

In 1865 he was appointed comptroller of the currency; and in 1867 was elected to the New York state constitutional convention. In 1870 he was elected a representative from New York to the fortysecond congress, and in 1872 was re-elected to the forty-third congress.

Clarke, George Rogers

soldier, was born in 1752 in Virginia. He was one of the most accomplished and useful officers of the western pioneers during the revolution. He died in 1848 near Louisville, Ky.

Clarke, Henry J

lawyer, jurist, was born March 31, 1845, in Southbridge, Mass. He is a descendant of Jacob Clarke, who came from Bristol, England, in 1679, and settled in Providence, R. I.

In 1875 he graduated from the Boston University Law school with the degree of LL. B.; and has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Webster, Mass. He has been a justice of the peace, and held other prominent positions in his county and state.