Clancy, John M – Clark, Arthur Wellington
Clancy, John M
capitalist, congressman, was born May 7, 1837, in Ireland. He immigrated with his parents to New York; was educated in the public schools of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and is in the real estate business; He served as an alderman of the city of Brooklyn from 1868 to 1875, and was a member of the state assembly from 1878 to 1881. He was elected to the fiftyfirst, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat, receiving 20,697 votes, against 13,593 votes for Grace, republican. a
Clap, Nathaniel
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 20, 1669, in Dorchester, Maine. He was clergyman of Newport, of some distinction in his day, and is the author of Advice to Children; and The Lord's Voice Crying to the People in Some Extraordinary Dispensations.
He died Oct. 30, 1745, in Newport, R. I.
Clap, Roger
author, was born April 6, 1609, in England. He was a colonist of Dorchester, whose Memoirs, written for his children, have been several times reprinted, and possess considerable historical value. He died Feb. 2, 1691, in Boston, Mass.
Clap, Thomas
clergyman, college president, author, was born June 26, 1703, in Scituate, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of distinction, and president of Yale college in 1740-66. He is the author of The Nature and Foundation of Moral Virtue and Obligation; History of Yale College; Vindication of the Doctrines of New England Churches; Nature and Motion of Meteors; and The Religious Constitutions of Colleges, especially Yale.
He died Jan. 7, 1767, in New Haven, Conn.
Clapp, Asa
merchant, legislator, was born March 15, 1762, in Mansfield, Mass.
He was a state councilor, a delegate to the convention for framing the constitution of Maine in 1819, and several years a representative in the state legislature.
He was noted for benevolence and rectitude. He died May 17, 1848, in Portland, Me.
Clapp, Asa W. H
congressman, was born in Maine. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1849.
Clapp, Ozro Wright
journalist, banker, was born Dec. 31, 1836, in Lee Center, Ill. In 1887 he moved to New York and opened the banking and brokerage house of Clapp and Company, and later on he established the Clapp and Company Daily and Weekly Market Letters.
Clapp, Theodore
clergyman, author, was born March 29, 1792, in Easthampton, Mass. He was a unitarian minister of New Orleans for many years, and the author of Autobiographical Sketches of 35 Years' Residence in New Orleans; Theological Views; and Slavery, a Sermon. He died May 17, 1866, in Louisville, Ky.
Clapp, William Warland
journalist, was born April 11, 1826, in Boston, Mass. In 1847 he became editor and publisher of the Saturday Evening Gazette; and in 1865 became editor-in-chief of The Journal of Boston. He has served as councilman, alderman and state senator, and trustee of the Boston public library.
He died Sept. 13, 1891.
Clardy, John D
business man, congressman, was born Aug. 30, 1828, in Smith county, Tenn. He was elected to represent Christian county in the constitutional convention in 1890. He was appointed and served as one of the state commissioners to the Columbian exposition at Chicago in 1893; and was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.
Clardy, Martin Linn
lawyer, congressman, was born April 26, 1844, in St. Genevieve county, Mo. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortysixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, fortyninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat.
Clare, Ada
actress, author, was born about 1835 in the southern states. She made her debut as an actress at the Academy of Music of New York in 1855, as Ophelia in Hamlet, but soon became better known as a writer than as an actress. She was the author of a volume entitled Only a Woman's Heart. She died March 4, 1874.
Clare, Israel Smith
historian, born Nov. 24, 1847, in Lancaster county, Pa. He received the rudiments of his education in the schools of his county, and graduated from the State Normal school of Millersville, Pa. In his earlier years he was engaged in educational work; and subsequently held a position on the editorial staff of The New Era of Lancaster, Pa., which city is still his place of residence. He is the author of the following works: Illustrated Universal History, published in 1876; Complete Historical Compendium, published in 1884; and Library of Universal History, in five volumes, published in 1890. He is also the author of several smaller 'works; and many articles on historical and foreign political subjects for current publications have appeared in the Geographical News of Chicago, and other prominent newspapers and magazines.
Clark, Abraham
signer of the declaration of independence, was born Feb. 13, 1726, near Elizabethtown, N. J. He was sheriff and clerk of the colonial assembly, one of the delegates to the continental congress, and a signer of the declaration of independence; after the adoption of the constitution, he was a representative in congress, from New Jersey, from 1791 to 1794, when he resigned. He died Sept. 15, 1794, in Rahway, N. J.
Clark, Addison
educator, college president, clergyman, was born Dec. 11, 1842, in Titus county, Texas. He graduated from Carlton college, and subsequently became a minister of the gospel; and is now the president of the Addkan university of Waco, Texas.
Clark, Alexander
clergyman, author, was born March 10, 1834, in Jefferson county, Ohio. He was a methodist protestant clergyman of Pittsburg, and the author of The Old Log Schoolhouse; Workaday Christianity; The Red Sea Freedman; School Day Dialogues; The Gospel in the Trees; Rambles in Europe; Starting Out, a Story of the Ohio Hills; and Ripples on the River, a collection of verses. He died July 6, 1879, in Georgia.
Clark, Alonzo
educator, physician, author, was born March 1, 1807, in Ches ter, Mass. From 1849-55 he was professor of physiology and pathology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York city; was consulting physician of the Northeastern dispensary and of the Northern dispensary, and in 1861 was made president of the medical board of St. Luke's hospital. He was a noted lecturer, and the author of a number of articles on medical subjects. He died Sept. 13, 1887, in New York.
Clark, Alonzo Howard
naturalist, author, was born April 13, 1850, in Boston, Mass. He is a naturalist in the United States National museum at Washington, who has published Statistics of Fisheries of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut; Statistics of Fisheries of Massachusetts; and History of the Mackerel Fishery.
Clark, Alvah A
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 13, 1840, in Lebanon, N. Y. He became a councilor-at-law in 1867; and was elected a representative, from New Jersey, to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a democrat.
Clark, Alvan
optician, was born March 8, 1804, in Ashfield, Mass. He was the first person in the United States to overcome the difficulties of the achromatic lens, and achieved such skill that the most important telescopes of modern times have been made in his factory in Cambridge. He died Aug. 19, 1887, in Cambridgeport, Mass.
Clark, Alvan Graham
astronomer, inventor, was born July 10, 1832, in Fall River, Mass. During 1886 the 36-inch refractor, the largest in the world, was made for the Lick observatory on Mount Hamilton, near San Francisco, Cal. Mr.
Clark accompanied the total-eclipse expedition to Jerez, Spain, in 1870, and also the similar expedition to Wyoming in 1878. As an independent observer he has discovered fourteen intricate double stars, including the companion to Sirius, for which the Lalande gold medal was awarded him by the French academy of sciences in 1862. He has also made numerous inventions connected with the manufacture of refracting telescopes.
Clark, Ambrose W
journalist, congressman, diplomat, was born Feb. 19, 1810, near Cooperstown, N. Y. He published for five years the Otsego Republican; established and published for eight years the Northern Journal; and also published for sixteen years the Northern New York Journal. In 1859 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress in 1862. In 1865 he was appointed consul at Valparaiso.
Clark, Amos
banker, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 8, 1827, in Westfield, N. Y. He was banker in Elizabeth, and largely interested in real estate. He was elected a state senator from 1866 to 1869; was an elector in 1872, and was elected to the forty-third congress. as a republican.
Clark, Arthur Wellington
physician, surgeon, genealogist, was born Dec. 7, 1859, in Lawrence, Kan. He was professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Boston; and is the author of a Genealogy of the Houghton Family.