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Clarke, Frank Gay

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1850, in Wilton, N. H. He was a member of the state house of representatives of 1885; of the state senate in 1889; reelected to the former in 1891, and was chosen speaker of that body. He was appointed colonel on the military staff of Governor Hale, and served in that capacity from 1885 to 1887. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

CLARKE, FRANK WIGGLESWORTH, chemist, author, was born March 19, 1847, in Boston, Mass. He is the chief chemist of the United States geological survey at Washington; and the author of Weights, Measures, and Money of All Nations; and Elements of Chemistry.

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