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Clarke, Sara J – Clay, Brutus J

Clarke, Sara J

author, was born Sept. 12, 1840, in Norridgewock, Maine.

She is the author of the Little Miss Weezy Series and the Silver Gate Series, which have become very popular.

Clarke, Sidney

soldier, journalist, congressman, was born Oct. 16, 1831, in Southbridge, Mass. He published the Southbridge Press. In 1858 he moved to Kansas, and settled in Lawrence. He was a member of the state legislature in 1862; and subsequently rendered military service against the rebellion as a captain of volunteers, and assistant provost marshal-general. He was elected a representative from Kansas to the thirty-ninth, fortieth and forty-first congresses as a republican, and made chairman of Indian affairs.

Clarke, Staley N

congressman.

He was a representative in congress from New York from 1841 to 1843.

CLARKE, WALTER. He was a colonial governor of Rhode Island and lived in the seventeenth century.

Clarke, William

soldier, explorer, governor, was born Aug. 1, 1770, in Virginia. He was associated with Lewis, and conducted the first exploring expedition across the American continent to the Columbia river, and gave the names of Lewis and Clarke to the two tributaries of that river. He was promoted to brigadier-general, and was governor of Louisiana territory from 1813-20. He died Sept. 1, 1838, in St. Louis, Mo.

Clarkson, Floyd

soldier, was born Feb. 27, 1831, in New York city. He served through the civil war, and in 1866 was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for faithful and meritorious services. He was a trustee of the Union Dime Savings bank of New York city, and president of the Riverside bank. He died Jan. 2, 1894, in New York city.

Clarkson, Matthew

congressman.

He was a delegate to the continental congress from Pennsylvania from 1785 to

Clarkson, Robert Harper

bishop, author, was born Nov. 19, 1826, in Gettysburg, Pa. He was consecrated missionary bishop of Nebraska and Dakota, in Chicago in 1865, and three years later, when Nebraska was organized as a diocese and admitted into union with the general convention, he was chosen to be the bishop of the new diocese. He died.

March 10, 1884, in Omaha, Neb.

Clary, Joseph Monroe

educator, lawyer, author, was born July 28, 1861, in Saline county, Ill. He is the author of a work entitled Our Nation's History and Song.

Clary, Robert Emmet

soldier, was born March 21, 1805, in Ashfield, Mass.

He served in the Florida war of 1840-41; and at various posts till the civil war.

In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general for his services during the war. He died Jan. 19, 1890, in Washington, D. C.

Clason, Isaac Starr

educator, actor, author, poet, was born in 1789 in New York. He was the author of Horace in New York, a collection of poems, full of the New York gossip of the day, and celebrating, among others, Madame Malibran, then the chief operatic singer. He died in 1834 in London, England.

Clawson, Isaiah D

congressman, was born March 30, 1822, in Woodstown, N. J. He was a member of the New Jersey assembly in 1853, and was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses.

Clay, Brutus J

state legislator, congressman, was born July 1, 1808, in Madison county, Ky. In 1840 he served in the Kentucky state legislature. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-eighth congress.