Clarke, Mac Donald
author, poet, was born June 18, 1798, in Bath, Maine.
He was an eccentric, unbalanced versewriter of New York city, who was commonly styled the mad poet; and was the author of Poems; Sketches in Verse; Death in Disguise, a Temperance Poem; The Gossip; Afara, or the Belles of Broadway; A Cross and a Coronet; Elixir of Moonshine; and Review of the Eve of Eternity. He died March 5, 1842, in New York city.
CLARKE, MRS. MARY BAYARD DEVEREUX, author, was born about 1830 in Raleigh, N. C. She published Reminiscences of Cuba: Mosses from a Rolling Stone; Clytie and Zenobia, a poem; and Wood Notes, a compilation of North Carolina verse.