Clark, Billy James – Clark, Frederick Thickstun
Clark, Billy James
reformer, legislator, was born Jan. 4, 1728, in Northampton, Mass. He organized what is claimed to have been the first temperance society in the world, at Moreau, Saratoga county, N. Y., in 1808. Dr. Clark was a member of the legislature from Saratoga county in 1821, and was a member of the electoral college in 1848. He died March 20, 1867, in Glens Falls, N. Y.
Clark, Champ
lawyer, legislator, lecturer, author, was born March 7, 1850, near Lawrenceburg, Ky. In 1873 he graduated with highest honors from the Bethany college, W. Va.; and became president of the Marshall college of Huntington, W. Va. He has been city attorney of Louisiana and Bowling Green, Mo.; prosecuting attorney of Pike county, Mo.; and he has served as special judge of the Louisiana (Mo.) court of common pleas.
He was a member of the Missouri state legislature, and a member of the fiftythird and fifty-fifth congresses. In 1891 he was a delegate to the Trans-Mississippi congress at Denver, and was chairman of the Missouri delegation and vicepresident.
Clark, Charles B
soldier, educator, clergyman, was born Dec. 28, 1837, in Saguoit, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the High school and graduated from the Iowa Wesleyan university at Mount Pleasant. During the civil war he served in the twenty-fifth regiment Iowa volunteer infantry, and in 1897 was elected department commander for South Dakota of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Clark, Charles B
congressman, was born Aug. 24, 1844, in Theresa, N.
Y. He moved to Wisconsin in 1855, and settled in Neenah, where he has since resided. He was elected to the fiftieth and re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Clark, Charles B
educator, journalist, lawyer, was born Jan. 1, 1854, in Hubbard, Ohio. Early in life he was a successful school teacher and principal, and in 1880 was admitted to the bar. He subsequently was on the editorial staffs of different newspapers, and has published directories of several cities in Pennsylvania. He is the author of several county and town histories; and has contributed extensively to current literature. He is now solely engaged in the practice of law in Altoona, Pa.
Clark, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
physician, author, was born March 20, 1822, in Tinmouth, Vt. He is a physician, and at one time collector of customs at Oswego, and the author of The Commonwealth Reconstructed.
Clark, Charles E
naval officer, was born in Vermont about 1848. He was a cadet in the naval academy when the civil war began and was made a midshipman. He has long been attached to ships in Pacific waters, in the Pacific and Asiatic squadrons. As commander of the first-class battleship Oregon, he was the first naval officer to bring a great modern battleship around Cape Horn; and his gallant work in destroying the Spanish fleet in 1898 has made his name a household word throughout the civilized world.
Clark, Charles Heber
journalist, author, was born in 18-. He is a Philadelphia journalist who has written several works of a humorous character which have been popular. Some of his works are Out of the Hurly Burly; Elbow Room, a Novel without a Plot; Random Shots; and Fortunate Island and Other Stories.
Clark, Charles N
congressman, was born Aug. 21, 1827, in Cortland county, N. Y. He was made a member of the executive committee for the improvement of western waterways, and at his motion the national convention was held in Washington, D. C.
He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican, and was placed on the river and harbor committee, where he served with distinction.
Clark, Charles Peter
railroad president, was born Aug. 11, 1836, in Nashua, N. H. Since 1887 he has been president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railway, and since 1895 president of the Hartford and New England railroad.
Clark, Christopher
congressman.
He was a representative in congress, from Virginia, from 1804 to 1806.
Clark, Clarence D
congressman, United States senator, was born April 16, 1851, in Sandy Creek, N. Y. He was prosecuting attorney for Uinta county four years, and was appointed associate justice of the territory of Wyoming in 1890, but declined the office. Upon the admission of Wyoming as a state he was elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses.
He was elected in 1895 to the United States senate for the term ending 1899, to fill a vacancy.
Clark, Daniel
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Oct. 24, 1809, in Stratham, N. H. He was elected United States senator in 1857; and was president of the New Hampshire constitutional convention of 1876.
Clark, Daniel A
clergyman, author, was born March 1, 1779, in Rahway, N. J. In 1820 he was installed pastor of the West parish of Amherst, Mass., and became one of the founders of the college there. His complete works, with a biographical sketch by George Shepard, were published in 1846. He died March 3, 1840, in New York.
Clark, Davis Wasgatt
bishop, author, was born Feb. 12, 1812, in Maine.
He was a methodist bishop of some note. as a preacher, and the author of Mental Discipline; Death-Bed Scenes; Man all Immortal; Life of Bishop Hedding; Sermons; and Elements of Algebra. He died May 23, 1871, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Clark, Edmund C
soldier, lawyer, author, was born in Binghamton, N. Y.
He served as a union soldier during the civil war in company E, thirty-second regiment volunteer infantry, and was promoted to first sergeant, and subsequently re-enlisted in company H, sixth regiment, New York cavalry. He is scientist and writer on political economy; the author of several prose works a and a volume of poems. He has attained prominence as an eminent lawyer of Hutchinson, Kan., and has taken an active part in the public affairs of his county and state.
Clark, Edson Lyman
clergyman, author, was born April 1, 1827, in East Hampton, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Massachusetts and the author of The Arabs and the Turks; The Races of European Turkey; Turkey; and Fundamental Questions chiefly relating to Genesis and the Hebrew Scriptures.
Clark, Emmons
soldier, merchant, author. In 1857 he enlisted as a private in the New York state militia; served gallantly through the civil war, and was promoted colonel of his regiment. He is the author of a History of the Seventh Regiment of the New York State Militia.
Clark, Ezra
congressman, was born in Vermont. He was elected a representative to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses.
Clark, F. O
lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 18, 1843, in Girard, Pa. In 1862 he moved to Lake Superior, Mich., and joined the corps of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad company as civil engineer. In 1870 he was admitted to the bar, first practicing that profession in Escanaba and then in Marquette, Mich., and is considered one of the most eminent lawyers in the Upper Peninsular. He takes an active part in the business and public affairs of his city, county and state; is a stockholder in the Dexter Mining company, and president of the Marquette City Electric Street Railroad company. In 1874-75 he served with distinction as a member of the Michigan state legislature, and has served two terms as mayor of his city.
Clark, Francis Edward
clergyman, author, was born in 1851, in Canada.
He is a congregational minister who during his pastorate in Portland, Maine, in 1881, established the Christian Endeavor society. He is the author of Danger Signals, the Enemies of Youth; Looking Out on Life, a book for girls; Our Vacations, Where to Go, etc.; Young People's Prayer Meeting in Theory and Practice; The Children and the Church; Mossback Correspondence; Our Business Boys; and Ways and Means, a history of the Christian Endeavor movement.
Clark, Frank E
lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 12, 1860, in Wausau, Wis.
In 1882 he graduated as a civil engineer; and in law in 1888. For ten years he was engaged in educational work; and for several years was county surveyor of Green Lake county, Wis. During 1895-97 he was a member of the Wisconsin state assembly; and now practices law in Princeton, Wis.
Clark, Franklin
merchant, congressman, was born in Maine. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1849; before entering congress served in the state legislature; and was a member of the executive council in 1855.
Clark, Frederick Thickstun
author, was born in 1858 in Pennsylvania. He is a novelist of Denver, Colo., whose stories deal with phases of western life; and the author of A Mexican Girl; In the Valley of Havilah; On Cloud Mountain; and The Mistress of the Ranch.