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Clarke, Joseph Morrison

clergyman, author, was born Oct. 6, 1827, in Bethany, Conn. This eminent clergyman is the author of Letters on Christian Union; Annual Addresses; and numerous contributions to church literature.

Clarke, Newman S

soldier, was born in Connecticut. He commanded a brigade in Mexico in 1847, and received the brevet of brigadier-general, March 29, 1847, for gallant conduct at the siege of Vera Cruz. He died Oct. 17, 1860, in San Francisco, Cal.

Clarke, Reader Wright

state legislator, congressman, was born May 18, 1812, in Bethel, Ohio. He was elected to the Ohio legislature in 1840-41; was a delegate, in 1844, to the Baltimore convention, and was a presidential elector at the ensuing election. In 1864 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses.

In 1869 he was appointed third auditor of the treasury, and afterwards a collector of internal revenue in Ohio. He died May 23, 1872.

Clarke, Rebecca Sophia

author, was born Feb. 22, 1833, in Norridgewock, Maine. She is a popular writer of stories for children and young people, who was born and has always lived at Norridgewock, Maine. Of the former class are the Little Prudy Books; Dotty Dimple Series; and Flaxie Frizzle Stories. Of the latter class are Her Friend's Lover; Janet; The Asbury Twins; In Old Quinnebasset; Quinnebasset Girls; and The Doctor's Daughter.

Clarke, Richard

merchant, was born in 1708. He became a merchant in Boston, and he and his sons were consignees of part of the tea that was thrown overboard by the tea-party in Boston harbor in December, 1773. He died in 1795, in England.

Clarke, Richard H

lawyer, author, was born July 3, 1827, in Washington, D. C. He is a prominent Roman Catholic lawyer of Washington, and, later, of New York, who has written many controversial papers, and published Illustrated History of the Catholic Church in the United States; and Lives of Deceased Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States.

Clarke, Richard H

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 9, 1843, in Marengo county, Ala. He served as a lieutenant in the first battalion of Alabama artillery. He was prosecuting attorney for Marengo county from 1872 to 1876, and was prosecuting attorney of the seventh judicial circuit from 1876 to 1877.

He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat.

Clarke, Robert

surveyor, was born in London, England. In 1639 he sat as a freeman in the Maryland legislature, in 1640 was deputy surveyor, and in 1649 surveyor-general of the province. died in Maryland.

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Clarke, Robert

journalist, author, was born May 1, 1829, in Scotland. He edited Col. George Rogers Clarke's Campaign in the Illinois in 1778-79; James McBride's Pioneer Biographies; Captain James Smith's Captivity with the Indians; and is the author of a pamphlet entitled The Pre-Historic Remains Which Were Found on the Site of the City of Cincinnati, with a Vindication of the Cincinnati Tablet.

Clarke, Samuel

clergyman, author, was born in 1599 in England. He published, besides theological works and a famous General Martyrology, A True and Faithful Account of the Four Chiefest Plantations of the English in America; and New Description of the World. He died in 1682.

Clarke, Samuel Fessenden

naturalist, author, was born June 4, 1851, in Geneva, Ill. During 1874-75 he was assistant to the United States fish commission, and from 1879 till 1881 assistant in the biological laboratory at Johns Hopkins university. In 1882 he became lecturer in biology at Smith college, and also professor of natural sciences at Williams college.