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Close, Fred J

railroad president, was born March 21, 1849, in Snyder county, Pa. Since 1895 he has been president of the Gulf and Interstate railway of Kansas.

Clough, George L

painter, was born Sept. 18, 1824, in Auburn, N. Y. In 1850 he went to Europe and copied pictures in the principal galleries of the continent, and after his return he generally resided near New York, where he found a ready sale for his paintings.

Clough, John E

missionary, was born July 16, 1836, in Chautauqua county, N. Y. He was appointed by the American Baptist Missionary union missionary to India in 1865. a

Clough, Milo M

educator, journalist, poet, was born July 13, 1862, in Carlisle, Iowa. He received his education at the university of Des Moines; has been principal of various high schools, and professor of English literature and mathematics. He is the editor and proprietor of The Herald of Abercrombie, N. D., and the author of a number of meritorious poems.

Clough, Moses T

lawyer, was born Nov. 22, 1814, in Hopkinton, N. H. He is a successful lawyer of Troy, N. Y. He was the postmaster at Ticonderoga under the administration of Gen. Polk, and master in chancery and supreme court commissioner of the state of New York.

Clover, B. H

farmer, congressman, was born Dec. 22, 1837, in Franklin county, Ohio. He has twice been chosen president of the Kansas State Farmers' Alliance and Industrial union, and twice vice-president of the national organization of that order. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a candidate of the Farmers' Alliance.

Clover, Lewis P

painter, was born Feb. 20, 1819, in New York city. The titles of some of his best known paintings are The Rejected Picture, The Idle Man, Repose by Moonlight, and The Phrenologist. These were all exhibited in the National Academy of Design.

Clowney, William K

lawyer, congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was commissioner in equity of South Carolina; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1835, and again from 1837 to 1839.

Clunie, Thomas Jefferson

lawyer, congressman, was born March 25, 1852, in St. John's, Newfoundland. He was elected to the legislature in 1875, and was appointed brigadier-general of the fourth brigade of the National guard of California in 1876. He was a delegate at large to the national democratic convention at Chicago in 1884, and represented California democrats on the committee on platform and resolutions. He served one term in the state senate, and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a democrat.

Cluseret, Gustave Paul

soldier, author, was born June 13, 1823, in France.

He served in the civil war and was brevetted brigadier-general in 1862. He is the author of Mexico and the Solidarity of Nations.

Clymer, Hiester

congressman, was born Nov. 3, 1837, in Berks county, Pa. He was a member of the state senate of Pennsylvania in 1860-66 when he was a candidate for governor of Pennsylvania. He was elected to the forty-third, forty-fourth, and re-elected to the fortyfifth and forty-sixth congresses. He died June 12, 1884.

Clymer, Meredith

physician, author, was born in June, 1817, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a distinguished physician and medical writer of New York city; and the author of Diseases of the Respiratory Organs (with Williams); Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Fevers; Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System; Palsies and Kindred Disorders; Ecstasy and Other Dramatic Disorders of the Nervous System; Hereditary Genius; Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis; and Legitimate Influence of Epilepsy on Criminal Responsibility.