Clark, Wellington – Clarke, Daniel
Clark, Wellington
lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 3, 1860, in Marysville, Cal. He is a successful lawyer of Walla Walla, Wash.; was a member of the territorial assembly of Washington in 1887-88, and speaker of the house. He has been prosecuting attorney of his county; court commissioner of the superior court; and master in chancery of the circuit court of the United States for the ninth district of Washington. He has been inspector-general on the governor's staff, and judge advocate general of the national guard of Washington.
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Clark, William
congressman. 1828 he was appointed treasurer of the United States; and from 1833 to 1837 he was a member of the house of representatives in congress from Pennsylvania. He died April 28, 1841, in Dauphin county, Pa.
Clark, William
jurist, governor.
In 1800 he was appointed chief justice of the territory of Indiana; and was subsequently commissioned as the second governor of the territory of Missouri.
Clark, William
explorer, soldier, was born Aug. 1, 1770, in Virginia. He was a noted explorer; served in the war of 1812; and was appointed governor of Missouri.
Clark, William
manufacturer, was born in 1841 in Scotland. In 1860 he joined his brother, George A. Clark, in the general agency of the Clark threads in America. In 1864 the brothers started a cotton thread factory in Newark, being identified with the Passaic Thread Co. from the start.
In 1873 William Clark rose to seniority in the house. The works now occupy ten acres of ground on the banks of the Passaic river.
Clark, William Adolphus
author, was born Dec. 2, 1825, in New Orleans, La. He received his education in various institutions; and attended the Boston Latin school, and the Dane Law school of Cambridge, Mass. He has been a merchant in New Orleans, La.; a miner in Southern California; and has filled numerous public positions of trust and honor. He is the author of a volume a of select poems entitled Intellectual People, and has contributed extensively, both prose and verse, to the leading newspapers and magazines in America.
Clark, William Arthur
educator, was born May 23, 1853, in Manchester, Ohio. He received his education at the National Normal university and the Harvard university. He has received the degrees B. A., A. M., and Ph. D. He has been superintendent of various public schools, and for two years had charge of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphan Home schools of Xenia, Ohio; professor of mathematics in the National Normal university; and professor of psychology in the Nebraska Normal school. He is a member of the Nebraska Academy of Science and one of its board of directors.
His work in the normal school has been principally in psychology and the history of education.
Clark, William B
president of the Ætna Fire Insurance company of Hartford, Conn., was born June 29, 1841, in Hartford, Conn. For many years he was connected with the Hartford Courant, of which his father was the proprietor. In 1857 he became a clerk with the Phoenix Fire Insurance company; was elected secretary in 1863; and after serving that company for twenty-five years he became assistant secretary of the Ætna. In 1888 he was made vice-president, and in 1892 became president. He holds a prominent and important place in the business affairs of Hartford, and has filled numerous offices of honor.
Clark, William Smith
soldier, educator, college president, was born July 31, 1826, in Ashfield, Mass. At the beginning of the civil war he was commissioned major of the twenty-first Massachusetts infantry, and in 1862 was appointed colonel. In 1867 he was elected president of the Massachusetts Agricultural college; and in 1864-67 was a representative to the Massachusetts legislature. He died March 9, 1886, in Amherst, Mass.
Clark, William T
soldier, congressman, was born June 29, 1834, in Norwalk, Conn. He served in the union army in all grades up to brevet majorgeneral, and commanded a division in Texas until mustered out in 1866, when he went into business at Galveston. He took an active part in reconstruction; and was elected to the forty-first congress as a republican.
Clark, Willis Gaylord
poet, was born in 1810 in New York, and was twin brother of L. G. Clark. He was a popular poet in his day. He died June 12, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Clarke, Alfred
public official, lawyer, was born July 27, 1832, in Ireland. He arrived at San Francisco by way of Cape Horn in 1850. During 1856-87 he was connected with the police department of San Francisco; was really the father of the police, having made it a credit to the city. In 1877 he was admitted to the bar of the supreme court, and has since attained success as one of the foremost lawyers of the Pacific coast. He was one of the founders of Calvary Presbyterian church in 1854. He was also one of the founders of the Police Benevolent society in 1879, and for five years was its president.
Clarke, Almon Taylor
clergyman, poet, was born Feb. 19, 1840, in Ticonderoga, N. Y. He received his education in several institutions, and in 1872 graduated in theology from Andover Theological seminary, and was ordained the same year as a minister.
He has held pastorates in Tiverton, R.
I.; Crown Point, N.
Y.; Parishville, N.
Y.; Sheldon and Franklin, Vt.; in Florida; and in Shelby, Ala. In 1889 he became editor of the Southern Congregationalist of Atlanta, Ga.; and is now pastor of the Church of the Covenant of Shelby, Ala., and editor of The Helper, a general religious organ of the congregationalist churches of the south. He has filled many positions of honor; was chosen a delegate of the league to the peace congress in Paris; and was urged to be a candidate for congress. He is the author of a number of very fine poems.
Clarke, Archibald S
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born in 1778. He was a member of the New York senate for four years, beginning with 1813; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1816 to 1817. He held the several positions of clerk, surrogate and judge of Saratoga county. He died Dec. 4, 1821, in Clarence, N. Y.
Clarke, Augustus Peck
physician, surgeon, was born Sept. 24, 1833, in Pawtucket, R. I.
In 1856 he entered Brown university, and in 1861 received the degree of A. M. from that institution; and the degree of M. D. from Harvard university in 1862. He served during the civil war and was promoted to the rank of surgeon; and in 1864 to surgeonin-chief; and was brevetted lieutenantcolonel for gallant conduct during his colonel and also and meritorious term of service. In 1865 he traveled abroad and attended the various medical schools and hospitals in London, Paris and Leipzic. In 1886 he moved to Cambridge, Mass., and soon established a high reputation as a practitioner. He has been dean and professor in the college of Physicians and Surgeons of Boston since 1893; and has held numerous high positions of honor in medical bodies and other societies. He is the author of Clarke's Kindred Genealogies; Book of Poems; and has contributed valuable articles and papers to various medical journals and magazines.
Clarke, Bayard
soldier, congressman, was born March 17, 1815, in New York city. He served in the second regiment of dragoons through the Florida war; resigned in 1843, and settled at Westchester, N. Y., which district he represented in the thirty-fourth congress.
Clarke, Benjamin Franklin
educator, college president, was born July 14, 1831, in Newport, Maine. He graduated from the Brown university, in which institution he has been professor and acting president for many years.
Clarke, Beverly L
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a member of the state legislature in 1841 and 1842; and was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1849. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1847 to 1849; and in 1858 was appointed minister to Guatemala and Honduras. He died March 7, 1860, in Honduras.
Clarke, Charles E
congressman, was born in 1789 in New York. In 1839 and 1840 he was a member of the New York assembly from Jefferson county; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851. He died Dec. 29, 1863.
Clarke, Charles J
business man, was born March 15, 1833, in Pittsburg, Pa. He was president for sixteen years of the Mercantile Library Hall Co.; and is vice-president of the Pennsylvania College for Women. He is a director of the Pittsburg Safe Deposit and Trust Co.; the Western Insurance Co.; and a member of the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburg.
Clarke, Daniel
congressman. He was a delegate to congress from the territory of Orleans or Louisiana from 1806 to